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Retocate a photo without inventing it. Google has succeeded and has won 10 million users

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Recently Gemini was news for the integration of a new image editor, called Nano Banana. Its great virtue is that it has achieved something that seemed impossible: finally an AI is able to make touch -ups in a photo without changing it completely. The launch has gone well to Google, who has announced that thanks to Nano Banana they have added no less than 10 million users to Gemini. The numbers. We have known it thanks to Central Androidwho echoed the last publication of Josh Woodward in X. The Vice President of Google announced that since the launch of Nano Banana on August 26, more than 200 million images have already been published and the Gemini app has won 10 million users. Woodward jokes that TPUs are burning (it refers to ‘Tensioning Processing Unit’, used in neuronal networks). The milestone The generation of images was at a very high level in which distinguish what is AI and what is not It is almost impossible. However, he was unable to make a small modification in an image without inventing things. And let’s not talk about asking him to put a text. The striking of Nano Banana is that you can add, change or remove something from a photo without changing anything else. For example we can ask to change our clothes or add a person in a photo. Viral. Artificial intelligence is already mainstream; practically everyone knows what a chatbot is and many people use it for all kinds of consultations (even As if it were his psychologist). If there is something that has contributed to the AI ​​reaches the general public, it has undoubtedly been the generation of images and the most viral case we have it with the Ghibli style photos. Although not with such an impact, during the days that Nano Banana has been available, several have been viralized Prompts like the one Turn any person or pet into an action figurine. It trembles, Photoshop. As we said, the image edition was a point that escaped the AI, but Nano Banana is able to remember and apply small modifications. At the moment Nano Banana does not reach the requirements for professional use, but if it continues to evolve it can be A great threat to image editing softwares like Photoshop. In Xataka | Cancel the adobe subscription has been hell for years. USA just denounced him

Brussels fine to Google with 2,950 million. The worst thing is that the EU points to a sale from its advertising business

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Brussels has launched a resounding notice to the technology industry: 2,950 million euros of fine to Google for abusing its position in the digital advertising market, As announced today the European Commission. The investigation points to self -preference practices that reinforced their domain in the Adtech chain and harmed competitors, advertisers and editors. The Community Executive suggests that the solution could go uninverting part of their advertising business. It is a movement that raises pressure on large technological ones and reinforces the regulatory role of the European Union. The case has a long journey in Brussels. The European Commission started in 2021 A file on Google’s power in the digital advertising sector, after detecting indications of dominant position abuse. In 2023 a specifications were issued that the company answered at the end of that year. The research analyzed Google activity in strategic markets such as the DFP advertisements and Google Ads and DV360 programmatic purchase tools, both with presence throughout the European economic space. What Brussels has ordered and what Google is played The core of the decision is in self -preference. The commission argues that, at least since 2014, Google took advantage of its domain on the DFP advertisements and in the Google Ads and DV360 tools for Grant advantages to your own platformA ADX. DFP warned ADX on the value of rival offers, and purchase tools prioritized participating in that same platform. This dynamic would have reduced competition and consolidated Google’s power in the advertising chain. For Brussels, it is a behavior designed to reinforce its position and its ability to collect high rates. Brussels set the sanction of 2,950 million euros based on its 2006 standards for anti -political fines. The calculation took into account “various elements, such as the duration and severity of the infraction, as well as ADX’s business volume in the EEE.” The commission defends that the amount is proportionate to the infraction and necessary to avoid new self -preference practices. The figure makes this file one of the most significant in the field of digital competence in Europe, reinforcing the role of the body as a regulator. The commission has given Google 60 days to present a plan that ends the conflicts of interest detected in the advertising chain. Once received, Brussels will evaluate whether the proposed measures really eliminate these practices. In its decision, the agency has already advanced its preliminary position: Only a partial disinvestment of advertising services I would solve the root problem. If Google’s proposal does not meet the criteria, the European regulator may impose structural remedies. Brussels hardens their pulse with technological while in Washington political discourse intensifies. Donald Trump published last month A message in Truth social criticizing laws and digital regulations that, according to him, “are designed to harm or discriminate against US technology companies.” He warned that it will impose tariffs and restrictions on countries that maintain these policies. Although he did not explicitly mention the European Union, its administration has repeatedly shown its discomfort with the measures against companies such as Google, Meta or X. The scope of this sanction goes beyond Google. Brussels seeks to reduce the dependency of editors and advertisers of a single intermediary, which could promote the Competition in digital advertising services. A mandatory divestment would open space for rivals in key segments such as advertisements and programmatic purchase platforms. The sector, accustomed to operating under the control of a few technological giants, could see changes in prices, access to commercial data and conditions. The EU thus reinforces its role as a referee in strategic digital markets. “Today’s decision shows that Google abused its dominant position in advertising technology, harming editors, advertisers and consumers. This behavior is illegal according to the EU antimonopoopoolio standards. Google must now present a serious solution to address their conflicts of interest and, if it does not, we will not hesitate to impose forceful measures,” said the Spanish commissioner Teresa Teresa Ribera, responsible for the competence of the community. Beyond the economic sanction, the decision of Brussels gives legal basis to those affected to claim. European regulations establish that commission resolutions are conclusive evidence that the infraction occurred. The Antitrust Damage Directive, together with a practical guide on the calculation of damages, facilitates that companies and individuals Get compensation. Thus, this case not only seeks to correct the market, but also repair those who suffered the consequences of the practices that reinforced Google’s domain in digital advertising. Just days ago, Google dodged in the United States the scene of selling Chrome. However, Europe has opened a new front: the possibility of forcing him to separate part of his advertising business. The plan that the company present in Brussels will be key to defining the outcome. If it does not convince, the European case could exceed the American process in impact, sitting a precedent that would affect the entire technological sector. Images | Alex doubt In Xataka | Apple’s most lucrative agreement has just improved: Google will pay without being able to prevent Microsoft from doing the same

Google Pixel, iPad, Dyson and more at a price of bar

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Like every Friday, we return with a new hunting bargains with the best offers in technological devices. September starts and, with it, one of the perfect moments to renew your old devices. It’s time for Hunt bargains. Google Pixel 9a by 449 euros: 6.3 inches and Google Tensioner G4 chip. Microsoft Surface Pro by 849 euros: With 12 -inch screen and Windows 11. Vacuum cleaner Dyson V8 Advanced by 258 euros: With a power of 130 AW and 40 minutes autonomy. Smart TV TCL 50Q7C by 549 euros: 50 inches and with Google TV. iPad Air 11 inches by 609 euros: Compatible with Apple Intelligence and Apple Pencil Pro. Google Pixel 9a The Google Pixel have become an icon within the mobile sector. If you are thinking about buying one and you don’t want to spend what the new is worth Google Pixel 10now in Amazon you have reduced the mid -range of the firm, the Google Pixel 9a. In Amazon it is available for 449 euros. This Pixel 9a stands out for your screen 6.3 -inch OLED with 120 Hz of refreshment. With him you can enjoy pure Android without having to disburse a money. Your brain is the G4 tensioner and is accompanied by an 8 GB RAM and 128 GB of storage. Google Pixel 9A – Free Android Smartphone * Some price may have changed from the last review Microsoft Surface Pro Another outstanding chollos this week has to do with the Back to school. Now, at Amazon, you can get this Microsoft Surface Pro 12a totally versatile computer equipment, which is reduced to 849 euros. There are many characteristics that this device stands out. The main one is your 12 -inch Pixelsense LCD screen With good resolution. Comes with 512 GB of internal storage and brings installed Windows 11 as operating system. * Some price may have changed from the last review Dyson V8 Advanced vacuum cleaner Although the Dyson vacuum cleaners They are synonymous with excellence, it is true that their price is usually high. If you have your eye on one and do not want to spend much, the cheapest model is the Dyson V8 Advancedwhich is now reduced to 258 euros In Amazon. This Dyson is perfect if you want to eliminate pet hairs at home, thanks to its excellent 130 AW suction power. It easily becomes a hand vacuum and has a battery with autonomy of up to 40 minutes. * Some price may have changed from the last review SMART TV TCL 50Q7C If you are thinking about renew your old TV, this TCL 50Q7C It is a good option for a good movie, sofa and blanket during this autumn-winter. In Amazon, this model has a discount of 100 euros and you can buy it for 549 euros. This TV mounts a QD panel with a 50 -inch diagonal and mini LED retroilumination. It is compatible with Dolby Vision IQ and HDR 10+. In the audio section, it has a power speakers of 30 W. It works under the operating system Google TV and has a wide section of connectivity. * Some price may have changed from the last review 11 -inch iPad Air He iPad Air It is the model between the Basic iPad and the iPad Pro. Now, you can get this Apple tablet at a very good price on Amazon, reaching its minimum. Specifically, the 128 GB and Wifi model is available by 609 euros. This iPad Air comes equipped with the Apple m3 chip. It has an 11 -inch screen and works under the iPados operating system and is compatible with Apple Intelligence. You can also use it with the Apple Pencil Proto get the most out. Apple ipad air of 11 inches with m3 chip * Some price may have changed from the last review Some of the links of this article are affiliated and can report a benefit to Xataka. In case of non -availability, offers may vary. Images | Apple, TCL, Dyson, Microsoft and Google In Xataka | Better Minipcs: Which buy and nine recommended miniors for all pockets In Xataka | Better Humidifiers: Which buy and six recommended models from 20 euros

Google has been saved from guillotine thanks to its greatest threat: chatgpt

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The judgment In the case of the United States against Google, published yesterday, it is one of the most important in the history of the world of technology. And in it Judge Amit Metha, in charge of the case, mentions 133 times the same word. Ia. Three years ago this sentence would have been very different, and there would probably have not had a single mention of that acronym. But the launch of Chatgpt in late 2022 has changed everything, and has caused a surprising consequence for Google. Despite having confirmed that it has a monopoly in the searches business, The punishment has been soft. Almost benign. Google will not have to sell Chrome As the accusation demandedand instead the judge has forced the company to share search data with its competitors already limit – but without prohibiting them – the exclusive search contracts that it maintains with companies such as Apple. The result of the trial is clear: Google has won, especially since it has lost much than what I could have lost. AND The great responsible for that legal triumph is not even Google, but chatgpt. Already in the introduction of the sentence, on its first page, the foundations of that decision are made clear: “Google is still the dominant firm in the relevant product markets (search). No rival has managed to fight with Google market share. And no new competitor has entered the market. But artificial intelligence technologies, in particular the generative AI (” Genai “)) can end up changing the rules of the game.” From there the sentence speaks of how generative technologies have been increasingly integrating into traditional search engines. It is something we saw first with Perplexity and that has ended up changing the search experience of the same Google. Chatgpt, the unexpected Salvador de Google From the results page with a list of links we have moved to a page in which more and more often The first thing that appears is an AI overViewan answer generated by AI and built directly from different sources. He NEW AI MODE It goes even further and raises the future transition from the traditional search engine – you are questions, he generates link lists – to one with whom we will talk. The AI has entered as an elephant in a potsweeping everything, and searches have been especially impacted. We are many who started using much more chatgpt, Claude or Gemini than the traditional Google search engine or some of its rivals, and that reality has been reflected in the sentence: the search engine, as we knew it, is becoming something else, so the classic search engine is no longer “so dangerous.” In fact, this sentence is from that very reasonable point of view: the AI ​​boom is creating such competition in the searches market to force Google to make drastic structural changes – such as selling Chrome – seems unnecessary. Of course, that does not make the sentence be content. Gabriel Weinberg, CEO of Duckckgo, believes that Google’s privileged position will continue to benefit and prevent free competition. In A shared statement in X He explained how “Google will continue to continue using their monopoly to stop competitors, including searches with AI.” Tim Sweeney, CEO of Epic, went further and criticized the punishment that justice had imposed to Google, considering it absurd and raising an analogy of the most suggestive: “It is as if a defendant had stolen a series of banks and the court’s verdict had declared him guilty, and then he had condemned him to probation, by virtue of which he could continue to steal banks, but he would have to share information on how he does it with other thieves of competition banks.” It is an interesting way to see that sentence, of course, but it is clear that sharing that data from your searches – Gogle has already warned that will review that decision– Open a door to more competitors. Not only that: it raises changes for the panorama of future search engines, including those with whom we will not stop talking. Chatgpt, the unexpected Salvador de Google, included. Image | Xataka with chatgpt In Xataka | “I’m afraid we’re going to be more busy”: Jensen Huang Discrepa from Musk and sees at AF a deep labor transformation

Girona has managed to decongest its historic center copying a trick of Barcelona: erase from Google Maps

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Girona has made Google and Waze modify the routes that took cars, especially tourists, to cross the old town of their city known as Barri Vell. This historical area has the Restricted circulationwith priority for pedestrians and limited access to residents and businesses. For Avoid excess traffic and preserve the pedestrian character of the center, the City Council asked the managers of those browsers to prioritize alternative tours and clearly mark the restrictions of access to the area. Atasque between 2,000 years of history Before, Google Maps and Waze guided To many drivers inside the Barri Vell to take shortcuts, especially tourists who trusted the GPS to move around the city. The problem is that, like most historical centers, this generated Unduse circulation in narrow and cobbled streets that are not designed for road traffic and hindered the circulation of neighbors. Such and as they highlight in The newspaper, In Barri Vell the circulation is restricted and special authorization is required to access even for distribution and service vehicles that are subjected to an access time control to prioritize the pedestrian use of the monumental center with more than 2,000 years of history. “We have been working to guarantee pacification at Barri Vell and the priority for pedestrians to be the seal of the city,” wrote Lluc Salellas, mayor of Girona In his X profile. Touch the photo to go to the original message The municipal idea for decongestion The Gironés City Council sent letters to Google and Waze to request that Barri Vell be eliminated as a recommended route to avoid the passage of tourist cars in this area. This management took several months, but finally was effective and GPS applications stopped proposing the historic center as a shortcut for the internal displacements of the city. In addition, the municipal team works so that the information shown in the browsers be as accurate as possibleclearly indicating the places where tourists They can park outside the historic center and preventing vehicles from being reserved where the spaces for loading and discharge are reserved. “We have made Google and Waze clearly mark that Barri Vell is an area with restricted circulation; and therefore, do not send tourists’ cars so easily,” explained Mayor Salellas to The newspaper.es. Girona is not the only one that has “erased” Google Girona It is not the only city that has asked Google to modify the information it gives to its users to redirect tourism flows and reorder the traffic of its streets. Barcelona City Council applied a similar measure To decongest the accesses to Park Güell, one of its most visited tourist places, eliminating from Google Maps one of the bus lines that went up to the park. This action sought to avoid the saturation of tourists and prioritize the service for the use of their neighbors, freeing them from the saturation of thousands of tourists who visit Gaudí’s work every day. In Holland, a small town managed to make fun of Google Maps To decongest its streets coordinating their neighbors to send false reports of cut streets. That caused the GPS to redirect traffic to alternative routes by freeing its neighbors from excess traffic. In all cases, this coordinated strategy with GPS applications has managed to reduce mass tourism in the most sensitive areas of cities, demonstrating how technological ones can influence tourist flows. In Xataka | One day, all Germans in Germany appeared closed on Google Maps. The problem is that nobody knows why Image | Unspash (Brandon Gurney, Priscilla du Preez)

How to edit your free photos on Google Gemini, and what can you do with the Nano Banana model

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Let’s explain How to edit your free photos using Geminiusing the new “Banana” model that allows you to modify or add or remove elements. This is the new great evolutionary leap of the AI, which after Chatgpt allowed you to create images from photos now comes the internal edition in Gemini. This is something that you will be able to Make in the free version of Geminiyou don’t need payment. You just upload a photo and ask to make the changes you want, you don’t have to choose any specific function or model, because it is already something integrated within Gemini. Here, you should know that the great advance of this function is that the changes are made directly on the original photo. What you say, but Everything else is going to be kept in the photonothing will be changed. How can you edit your photos with To edit your photos, you first have to upload it and then Ask Gemini to make any change. Sometimes it will be enough to directly ask you to put it in black and white, for example. Other times, you can start the prompt with “In the original photo, XXX” And then write the change you want me to do. Thus, Gemini will know that you want to keep the content of the photo as it is. First, Gemini now allows you Make touch -ups in your photoshow to adjust the color, change black and white, and alter any adjustment you want. You don’t have to use an app for something so simple, you can ask Gemini directly. You can also delete objects from a photo. This is something that until recently also needed third -party apps, but both Chatgpt and now Gemini already allow you to do it. They eliminate the object you want, and cover the bottom of the photo so that it seems that there was nothing. When you upload a photo of yours or another person, you can also change elements in it. You can change colors, hairstyles, people, and even clothes that is being put in the photo. Do you want to know how platinum hair would look like? Easy. Do you want to know how you look in a suit? Easy. Everything else in the photo remains the same. You can also change some elements of one photo for othersalthough not always with realistic results. Do you want glasses? Do you want to? Do you want your cat to become a dinosaur? Everything else in the photo remains the same. In addition to this, you can also Upload two photos and make the content of one appear in the other. In the example, I have uploaded a photo of mine teaching a drawing, and I have asked to change it which appears in a second photo. Just be sure to specify in the photo you want to make the changes and what they are. And finally, you can also change the back of a photo. Thus, if in the photo you are in a place you can make it look like you are in another, or add elements that change the environment where you are. In Xataka Basics | How to use Gemini to summarize YouTube videos or ask questions about its Android content

You can get the 10 Pro XL pixel at a better price in the Google store. And with a reimbursement of up to 850 euros

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We already know that Pixel 9 They triumphed, along with the Pixel 9abut Google already has the new successors ready. He has just announced the new Pixel 10 with new very interesting functions, assuring them as two of the best phones of the year, almost certainly. The launch comes with this promo, where we can take the pixel 10 pro xl With a refund of up to 850 euros In the official Google store. * Some price may have changed from the last review The Google Pixel 10 Pro XL at a good price, if you deliver your old mobile The new pixel 10 pro xl can be bought from 1,299 euros (in its most economical version) and Pixel 10 Pro from 1,099 euros. The XL model has a 6.8 ”Super OLED screen, with a maximum brightness of up to 3,300 nits and with adaptive soda of up to 120 Hz. It comes with the new G5 tensioner chip and with artificial intelligenceintegrating functions such as Magic Cue, Camera Coach, and the Pro Zoom mode that allows a digital zoom of up to 100. In addition, its 5,200 mAh battery offers more than 24 hours of normal use and with rapid 45W charging and 25W Qi2 wireless load. Take advantage now that in Google store This promotion is already located, from today to September 21and it works in this way: you can take a refund of up to 850 euros delivering your old phone. This is the maximum refund you can get, because the amount will depend on the phone you deliver. If you want to have the new pixel 10 pro xl, you can welcome this program since you receive the new pixel and with a period of 30 days You can send Google your old phone. It will be the company’s experts who value it and, according to this assessment, you will receive the corresponding refund. So, keep in mind that if your previous phone is well taken care of, when delivering it in the best conditions, you can receive a greater reimbursement. And the best, this promotion has another additional advantage, The valuation will go with an extra of 250 euros. So, in addition to delivering an old phone, you can take that extra. Of course, those 250 euros are included in the maximum refund, which is 850 euros. Some of the links of this article are affiliated and can report a benefit to Xataka. In case of non -availability, offers may vary. Images | Google In Xataka | The best mobiles (2025), we have tried them and here are their analysis In Xataka | The best price quality price (2025). Your analysis and videos are here

It is no longer necessary to pay to transform our photos into what we want. The latest Google offers it for free for everyone

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Edit images has become routine: to surprise in networks, to Try a new style or to rescue old photographs They keep memories. In classic filter apps stores with bets for artificial intelligence. Many are paying, others pay below what was promised. Google can be about to change that balance And, this time, with a difficult argument to ignore. The novelty comes integrated into the app of Geminiboth on mobile and on web. According to Googleits engine, based on the latest Gemini models, not only generates from text: it also edits real photos with instructions in natural language and chained steps, from changing the background to replacing objects or merging two images into one. The company presents it as its highest quality image tool to date. The jump is not in new creations from scratch, but in the photos we already saved on the reel The focus is not so much to create posters from scratch and in Transform the everyday. Try a different haircut, carry a novel aesthetic, turn a selfie into a Gothic version or emo, add that backpack that you forgot in the shot, move to another landscape or combine two photos for a coherent composition. The promise is to maintain the recognizable features of the subject, a critical point in which Google claims to have improved against usual distortions. The experience is conversational. You upload a photo, write what you want and see the result; If you don’t convince, you ask for adjustments. Nothing to use traditional tools. Everything flows at a blow of textual requests. For the general user there are two keys. The first, availability: can be used in the Gemini app for iOS and Android and also in the web version. If you are creator or developer, the service appears on Google Ai Studio. The second, price: Free access to test and edit images without subscription. The same portrait, four different styles. The Gemini generator plays with color, texture and shape without leaving the app There are also limits. Although demonstrations teach convincing results, there are still scenarios that challenge any model: precise typefaces, very fine details or tiny faces in complex scenes. Fidelity to the original improves when concrete changes are requested, but not always right. The practice advises iterate, adjust and check the full size result. From neutral portrait to three different fashion decades. Gemini plays with aesthetics and time as if they were filters In security, Google insists on the safeguards. The images generated They incorporate visible water brand and a mark embedded by techniques such as Synthid to indicate its origin with Ia. They are measures aimed at stopping an obvious risk: the more realistic these tools are, the easier it will be to manufacture deception. Skater, two miller or classic. Gemini’s generator makes a common photo a parade of personalities The interesting thing about Gemini is how natural it is to try styles without touching a complicated editor. You can ask for “Make me Y2K version” and see how the selfie is transformed with silver chains and two milea fashion prints. Or write “convert this photo into look skater” to make caps, wide sweatshirts and that aesthetics of urban park. The same portrait can also become elegant with a “beam that this photo is preppy”, keeping your features but completely changing the air of the scene. The before and after the same image: Google’s AI repairs, color and rescue (or invents) the lost details Those who want to restore the family album, the option to recover old photosincluding collecting in a single instruction, provides utility and emotion. For creators, the possibility of mixing images, conserving faces and repeating styles offers a powerful advantage. The edition with AI moves to the day -to -day layer, and Google does not arrive alone. Competes with other proposals, such as Chatgpt, Grok, Midjourney, Qwen and even adobe. The good news is for users, which we have more and more options at our disposal to achieve our editing goals, and in a way, give free rein to our creativity. Images | Google In Xataka | Deepseek put China on the AI ​​map. The danger is that this revolution stays in a day flower

Android changes its DNA. Google will exclude the apps from unidentified developers … even if they are not in the play store

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Google just activate the countdown for the Android we know. Since September 2026, any application you want to install on your Android – Come on Play Store, an alternative store or downloaded from a website – must be signed by a verified developer. It is the end of anonymity in the Android ecosystem. Why is it important. Android has always presumed to be the alternative open to iOS. That opening allowed to install applications of any source, without even Google knowing who developed them. With the advantages and disadvantages that that supposes. Now, All developers must reveal their real identity to Googlewithout exceptions. The company justifies the change with data: it detects 50 times more malware in applications downloaded via web than in the Play Store. Cybercounts take advantage of anonymity to distribute malware, commit financial fraud and steal personal data. The backdrop. This bomb comes in full legal earthquake for Google. Epic Games has won his antitrust case And the courts have ordered Android to open to third parties. Just when Google must allow more competition, impose unpublished control over who can develop for Android. It is a master play of Timing: Google maintains control of the ecosystem even when the courts force him to open it. Alternative stores may exist, but all applications must go through the Google verification filter. In detail. The new Android Developer Console will be mandatory for all: Developers must provide legal name, address, email and telephone. Organizations will also need corporate web and Luns number. Google promises not to show this information to users, but you will have it. There will be a “simplified” account for students and fans, without the rate of $ 25. The calendar does not leave much margin of maneuver: October 2025: Early access for selected developers. March 2026: Open registration for all. September 2026: Effective blockade in Brazil, Indonesia, Singapore and Thailand. 2027: Global expansion. Google points first to countries “specifically impacted” by scams. But the message is clear: this will be global and inevitable. Yes, but. Thousands of independent developers will lose their privacy. Those who created useful tools without wanting to expose themselves now must choose: reveal their identity to Google or leave Android. He Sideloadingthat exhaust valve that historically differentiated Android from iOS, is injured in death. Technically it will continue to exist, but only for developer applications that Google has verified. Between the lines. Google says That this is like “showing the DNI at the airport”, which verifies identity, but not contained. The comparison is very good because airports are spaces of maximum control where we sacrifice freedoms for security. Just what Google is looking for. The current documentation does not explain what will happen if you try to install an un verified application. Google will probably distribute a white list through Play Services and your Android will simply reject anonymous developer applications. Deepen. This change replicates the model Gatekeeper Apple in macOSwhere developers must register for their apps to work. Android is converging with iOS in control, losing its main differentiator. Google insists that Android will remain “open”, but the semantics is not an exact science, and for many, “open” will not fit as a definition a system where each developer must ask Google permission to exist. The Android we knew has died today, although we will not bury it until September 2026. In Xataka | Notifications with advertisements of some of the apps that we use most are kidnapping our mobiles. And there is not much to do Outstanding image | Denny Müller

A Google engineer moved to a truck parked on the company’s campus. The rent was saved and 90% of its salary

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The price of housing, whether rent or purchase through a mortgage, represents the main disbursement For anyone. However, it is an expense that we assume because it is not to anyone anyone sleeping outdoors. However, not everyone faces the issue of housing in the same way. Better a van. Business Insider History collected last year From Brandon, a 23 -year -old software engineer, who moved to San Francisco in 2015 to do summer practices at a Google branch. However, he met A Rent market for clouds. Instead of renting an apartment, Brandon opted for an unusual solution: living in a truck to save and pay their student loans Before buying a house. 2,000 dollars for sharing room. When Brandon moved to San Francisco, he agreed to one of the corporate flats that Google has in the city. There I had to share a two -bedroom floor with four people, for which I paid about $ 65 per night. That was about 2,000 dollars a month. “I realized that I was paying an exorbitant amount of money for the apartment in which I was staying, and I was almost never at home,” Brandon declared Business Insider. At that time, the young man began to gestate how his home would be for the future. Housing plan on wheels. The following year, Brandon He returned to work in Google Full time, but the young man was not willing to burn his savings. So He drew a planfacing the following year. Before starting his new adventure in San Francisco, Brandon bought a 2006 Ford truck with more than 252,000 for $ 10,000, using the advance they had given in Google for the signing of their contract. That would be his new home and had parked him in the parking lot of the office, so the young engineer says he never is late for work. With everything you need to live, but cheaper. His only fixed expenses were $ 121 per month for truck insurance, since he has no electricity costs and Google pays his mobile telephone line. The truck box provided a space of 12 square meters, more than enough space To sleep and save your personal belongings. The young man says that he only needs a battery lamp to illuminate the interior of the truck, and a portable battery of 15,000 mAh in case the mobile drums or headphones are spent, and that recharges at work. The interior of the truck was furnished in a simple way, with a bed, a dresser and a coat rack to hang clothes. Actually, that truck already offered him more space than he had on Google’s floor paying $ 2,000 per month. Live in Google. Brandon has created a blogin which he tells how his day to day living in a truck. The engineer tells that, as in his first year of practices, he spends all day In Google facilities. The young engineer says he makes all meals in the canteen for Google campus employees, where he also has showers in the campus gym. That allows you to minimize your daily expenses. Thanks to this strategy, Brandon can save approximately 90% of your net salary, allocating these funds to the payment of their student loans and investments. As the vast majority of US students, Brandon has to pay a student debt of $ 22,434, of which a good part has already covered. As a conservative estimate (and taking into account the bonuses), I hope to finish paying it in the next six months, saving thousands of dollars compared to the standard amortization plans of 10 and even 20 years, “Brandon declared the North American environment. Another way of living San Francisco. Brandon says that living parked just a few minutes from your office has many advantages, and allows many of San Francisco’s bad things to be skipped. One of them is the rush hour In the morning, turning his daily journey to work on a simple walk. Not having to drag the economic burden of a monthly rent has allowed him to go to dinner at different restaurants and enjoy the city atmosphere much more. It is not the first time that happens, and Google’s security knows. As Brando himself account on your personal blogIt is not the first time that a Google employee chooses to live in his parking lot. Brandon did not have to see them with Google security staff until the third month of “residence” in its parking lot when, in the middle of the night, it was approached by Google security personnel. However, the situation was resolved without problems after showing its corporate accreditation and confirming that there was an error in the vehicle registration. Clarified the misunderstanding, the safety of the Google campus apologized for waking him and never bother him again. At least, Google will not have to demand Brandon go to the office against your will. It is as at home. In Xataka | A 17 -year -old is the digital nomad par excellence: he lives in trains (and does not get expensive) In Xataka | Help the waiter collect the table seems like a kind gesture: psychologists see something much deeper *An earlier version of this article was published in August 2024

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