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The new Siri will not be Gemini with another face. Apple has helped Google to build what it could not do alone

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The new Siri, according to rumors, was going to land with iOS 26.4. This version arrived on compatible iPhones yesterday and, to no one’s surprise, there is no trace of Gurman’s prediction. What we have woken up with is new details about the agreement between Google and Apple related to access to Gemini. And there are interesting details. The agreement. Quick context: Apple and Google have teamed up to give Apple access to Gemini. The company has been promising for years that Siri, integrated into Apple Intelligence, will be an assistant that lives up to expectations. But after delays and more delays, it became clear that Apple needed help. The multi-year collaboration allowed Apple Foundation Models to rely on Gemini models, running on the platform Private Cloud Computing from Apple. Beyond this, no details about the agreement were revealed. The new. According to The Informationthe collaboration between Apple and Google will be somewhat deeper than expected. So much so that Apple would have full access to the Gemini model within its facilities. One of the company’s main purposes would be to produce smaller models designed to run locally and oriented to specific tasks within Apple devices. Distillation. Apple would not have agreed with Google to access Gemini with an integrated Siri interface. The objective is to use the main model to “distill” more efficient models, with lower requirements and fast operation. In other words and based on this information, Apple has made clear Google’s superiority in its AI models. So much so that he has needed to access them directly to be able to create the solutions that he has been promising for two years. What’s coming. According to Gurman, Apple is finalizing the changes to Siri to present it on June 8 at its WWDC, the developer conference it holds annually. In it, we will supposedly see Siri as a chatbot integrated into iPhone and Mac, as a real alternative to ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini. Late, very late. Apple’s problem is not being late with AI. It is coming at a time when giants like Claude iterate practically daily and when it is more than difficult to surprise the world. All the promises of Apple Intelligence, that contextual Siri, and that deep integration with the phone are already achieved by some of its rivals, since Apple has been waiting for two years. The big question is whether or not it will be worth the wait. In Xataka | Apple confirms the date of WWDC26 and hints at something important: AI will not be the only focus

The emir of Qatar travels in a private jet so big it helped Sardinia airport upgrade

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In 2021, the airport Olbia Costa Smeralda In Sardinia, it undertook work to expand its runway to be able to receive long-distance flights, thus opening the door for international airlines to bring a greater volume of tourists to the island. However, the inauguration of this work was somewhat special. As and how did he count Luxury Launchesthe ceremony inauguration of the new track It starred the Emir of Qatar, Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, but he did not do so by unveiling any commemorative plaque or cutting any ribbon. He did it bravely: landing his huge private jeteither. Who said fear? A private jet so big that it changes the category of the airport In the summer of 2021, the works on the Sardinian airport had just been completed. In an attempt to escape the scorching heat of Doha, the emir wanted to spend a few days of relax in the Mediterranean. Neither quick nor lazy, the president gave the order to embark to his crowded entourage who usually accompanies him on his private plane, and they headed to Sardinia. The Boeing 747-8, in addition to being one of the largest airplanes in the worldis the plane that Qatar Amiri Flight, the airline owned by the Qatari emirate, has assigned as a private plane for the top leader of the country. The emir’s plane, valued at around 370 million euros, has impressive dimensions, being 76 meters long, more than 68 meters wide and weighing close to 450 tons at takeoff. Qatar Boeing 747-8 Amiri Flight. The “private jet” of the emir of Qatar Olbia airport was already a key point due to its capacity to move almost 1.8 million passengers in 2008, operating mainly with domestic flights and some destinations in Europe. The infrastructure had just been expanded, lengthening the main runway by about 300 meters to a length of 2,740 meters, the safety zones were expanded and the taxiway was improved, which speeds up the approach to and departure from the runway. In principle, there would be no problem for the huge private jet to land. There was only one small detail: the track had not been tested previously and, in fact, It wasn’t even approved so that planes the size of the emir’s 747-8 could land there. Unimportant details. Olbia Costa Smeralda airport in Sardinia after its expansion As the airlines had not yet scheduled any long-haul international routes from that airport, the airport authorities took advantage of the visit of your important tourist to officially certify the ability to operate this type of flights that use aircraft such as the Boeing 747, Boeing 777, the Airbus A330, the Airbus A340. If the emir could land with your private jet loaded with his entourage, international tourists could too. The operation was carried out without incident, confirming that both the length and the paving of the runway were adequate to support the operations of these air giants. According what was published through the local environment The New Sardegnathanks to the inaugural maneuver of the private jet of the Emir of Qatar, in November of that same year the first flights connecting Sardinia with Los Angeles, China and Singapore with direct flights were inaugurated. The emir of Qatar: main interested party Even if all precautions had been taken during the landing operation, being the first aircraft of its kind to use the runway always entails some risks. However, the emir of Qatar was especially interested in international planes being able to land on that runway. full of tourists. The reason is easy to guess. The most prestigious hotels, marinas and resorts on the Emerald Coast belong to Emerald Holdingwholly controlled by the Qatar Investment Authority. Hotel Cala Di Volpe in Sardinia. One of the five-star hotels of the Emir of Qatar We are talking about a series of five-star hotels that offer luxury stays on the shores of the Mediterranean for clients as select as the Emir of Qatar. Therefore, it is not strange that the highest representative of this hospitality empire opens the way for millionaires from all over the world to use the new runway to land with their private jets or arrive accommodated in the seats business of international airlines. In Xataka | A single millionaire spent the equivalent of 10,000 tourists on his luxury vacation in Mallorca: the Emir of Qatar Image | Wikimedia Commons (Khamenei.ir, Mehmet Mustafa Celik, John Murphy), Marriott

This 4,500 -year -old game was an absolute mystery. Until AI helped us decipher it

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A few years ago archaeologists found something unique at the Shahr-i Sokhta site: a board game. I had about 4,500 years old, and it is believed that it is the board game complete older ever discovered. The problem was that no one knew how it was played … until AI arrived. Persian games. That site was part of the Helmand civilization in the Bronze Age. Lying To the east of Iran and south of Afghanistan, in that discovery both the board were found, with 20 circular spaces, and four dice and 27 geometric pieces. But how were they used? No game manuals. In old board games hardly ever There were written rules, and the instructions passed orally. That probably caused the rules to end up being modified between different groups of players over the decades or centuries, experts point out. But that also facilitates the task of finding out how it was played: as explained in New Scientistit was not necessary to find the definitive rules, only those that approached those that were probably the most logical. AU helps learn to play. The used AI systems use techniques such as Monte Carlo Search Treewhich was also used for the Alphago developmentof Deepmind. With them it is possible to simulate rules that can be applied to the game based on the structure of the board and the available parts. They can evaluate multiple variations of the possible rules that allow evaluating not only if they are logical, but end up offering boring or fun games. Beyond chess. Among these games there are real jewels because of their age Senetthat for example was found in the tomb of Tutankhamun. There are representations such as the main image – the Nefertari Egyptian queen playing Senet – that demonstrates its popularity in that culture. Others, like him Ur’s real gamefrom the ancient Mesopotamia, their secrets were able to discover a cuneiform tablet that It deciphered in 2007 In the British Museum. Shahr-i Sokhta game. Source: Persian Wonders First studies. One of the first applications of AI to the board games of antiquity is in the game Ludus Latrunculorum (“The game of thieves”), which was played among the Romans and that it is believed that it was already played (at least, in a previous version) in Greece. It is one of the best known thanks to the writings recovered from that time, and that allowed – thatNot effortlessly– rebuild its rules quite likely they were the ones that the Romans effectively used. Thus the Romans played. Cameron Browne, from the University of Maastricht, in Holland, led The call Digital Ludeme Project (DLP). It investigated about 1,000 traditional games over the 6,000 years of the history of humanity, and games such as Ludus Latrunculorum were studied. Simulations everywhere. It was not easy: this game – or its variants – appears with boards of different formats and sizes throughout history, but the AI ​​helped discover possible rules. Simulations were made to investigate which boards made more sense for the most plausible rules, and it was discovered how three games still active in our days – Khabebga, Seega and Tablut – had a strong relationship. All these tests allowed to conclude how the smallest boards were the ones that probably They were used in the Roman gameand others may be dedicated to other board games that experts have not been able to identify. You can play Shahr-i Sokhta. As with Ludus Latrunculorum, the help of AI served to raise what were the probable rules of the Shahr-i Sokhta game. So much so that developer Sam Jelveh and archaeologist Hossein Morad created An online playable version of the video game With complete information on how it was supposed to be played. Endless investigation. These efforts have not stopped there. More than 200 computer scientists, archaeologists and historians are collaborating in the project Gametable to develop even more advanced AI tools to discover the rules of old board games. And also, perhaps, to reveal why some came to our days transformed into current games – it is believed that UR’s real game ended up becoming the backgammon – and others disappeared without leaving just a trace. Image | Wikipedia In Xataka | The 41 best board games: from ‘Catán’ to ‘Gloomhaven’

In 2016, a urologist discovered that a Disneyland attraction helped expel renal calculations. The story was a bit more complicated

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In September 2016, David Wartinger (Urologist and Professor Emeritus at Michigan State University) He published a study according to which the Russian mountains facilitated the passage of kidney stones and, of course, the media went crazy. The kidney calculations They usually cause intense pain, bleeding, nausea and vomiting. In many cases they do not even go through the ureter them alone and you have to reduce them to dust with shock waves. The mere idea that a simple walk in a fair attraction could help solve it was a bombing. Of course, the story had a small print. Big Thunder Mountain Railroad. At some point in the late nineteenth century, someone found A colossal gold vein in Big Thundera mountain of the southwest of the United States. Quickly, the small mining camp in the immediate vicinity became a prosperous city and the mountain was filled with an intricate system of trains that moved the mineral from one place to another. No one suspected that Big Thunder was a sacred place for the Native Americans. Or, rather, it was a damn place that the natives avoided as a soul that the devil carried. It was inevitable that, sooner or later, a catastrophe would pass. And it passed. Some speak of an earthquake, others of a sudden flood. Be that as it may, the town was abandoned and the mine was closed until, years later, an expedition discovered that the wagons continued to move through the heart of the mountain without anyone who handled them. No, As Randy Meeks explained to usIt is not a real event: the plot of the most mythical mountain of Disneyland. That’s where history begins. A urologist in Michigan. As Wartinger himself explainedthe idea came unexpectedly. “Basically, I had patients who told me that after getting on a certain Russian mountain in Walt Disney World, they were able to expel their kidney calculations (…) I even had a patient who said he expelled three different calculations after climbing several times” As it seems, this theory did not pay much attention until, already retired, he discovered that other urologists They told similar things. It was then, when he felt the need to put it into practice. He did not do it with people, of course: he did it with a 3D model of a kidney with three calculations. He put it in the backpack, went to Orlando and rode 20 times in the Big Thunder Mountain. And what did you discover? “In total, we use 174 kidney calculations in different shapes, sizes and weights to see if each model worked in the same attraction and in two other roller mountains,” Wartinger explained in Msu Today. Interestingly, Big Thunder was the only one that gave positive results. “In the pilot study, sitting on the last car of the Russian mountain showed a success rate of around 64 percent, while sitting in the first cars only had a successful rate of 16 percent.” A simple curiosity … that quickly took out of context. With the help of the same Wartinger, by the way. As explained in Snopesin the interviews given by the retired urologist went far beyond reporting the results of his study. “If you have kidney calculations, but otherwise it is healthy and meets the requirements of the trip, patients should try it. It is certainly a cheaper alternative to medical care,” he said. The problem is that the basis for this is weak. What really does science say? There is no doubt that, as other urologists pointed out, This preliminary evidence suggests that a roller coaster can help naturally expel (very “) small. But, obviously, there is no empirical basis to recommend it. That is, it is a very striking study that could give an interesting clinical trial. A study that was never conducted. And without which, raising it as an alternative is risky: the experience of riding in that roller coaster with a large calculation can be terrible. Image | Renato Mitra In Xataka | There are people addicted to drink up to 15 liters of water daily (and it is a more serious problem than it seems)

Brave New World ‘seems that it hasn’t helped

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The Marvel From Disney had a golden opportunity to make blur and new account. The circumstances of his last films and the last year were the perfect springboard for a blur and new account. But the result has finally been the most conservative possible, and has opted for continuity and the inherited problems of the last MCU, in a film that has good box office forecasts but that is still a real hot potato for Disney. Bad omens. 2023 ended bitterly for Disney: ‘Quantumania‘ and ‘The Marvels‘They had results at the box office, if not disastrous, of course less lucid than the entire MCU. It was corroborated that since ‘Endey me‘, Disney had not known how to wear the Marvel universe, and that had failed when continuing the legacy of the Avengers: infinitely less charismatic characters (‘Eternals‘), new deliveries of heroes who lived better times (‘Thor: Love and Thunder‘,’Black Panther: Wakanda Forever‘) … phases four and five (which will end the imminent’ Thunderbolts’) have been pure wet gunpowder for Marvel. Marvel, 2024. At that time, Marvel stopped. Last year it only premiered Sony’s Spider-Man villains films (which did not work, but that does not affect Marvel too much, although it is true that They add up to some weariness to the public not versed in the rights limits of each other characters) and ‘Deadpool and Wolverine‘, which does not belong to the MCU. And yes, it was based on the promise of “rest this year, which will come the X-Men ‘. The return has been far from a return to the great Marvel greatness:’ Captain America: Brave New World ‘. A dazzled lap. It is difficult to list the problems of this new installment of ‘Captain America’, when there were problems from the same origin: the intervention of Harrison Ford was not planned, but the death of William Hurt (General Ross in the first Hulk film, the of Edward Norton of 2008) forced to look for a substitute. Since then, continuous rewriting and rethinking (the terrorist embodied for giancating him Esposito, for example, was intended for another actor) that have as a fruit a film full of patches and patches and Reshoots that visually, they are very noticeable (there are dialogues and more filling dialogues, very clearly shot in front of a green screen). The Marvel technique to start shooting with half writing and fixing them on the march had never settled with such a loose result. The worst MCU movie? ‘Quantumanía’ and ‘The Marvels were irregular films, but they had indisputable moments more than salvable: in the first one was modek, the design of the quantum kingdom, the presence of Kang; In the second, the cat gag, the moment of Indian musical, the action sequences … Here the fights, for example, are among the most reluctant ever seen in the MCU, the climax with the red hulk is. .. Well, anti -limitic. And the very scarce dramatic substance and charisma of the two protagonist heroes makes long combat sequences such as the confrontation against the airplanes of the army they take without hooking the viewer. Where it points. The referents of the MCU in which its plot base is ‘Brave New World’ is significant: a film that many do not know that it belongs to the MCU (‘The incredible Hulk’); the first Marvel box office failure (‘Eternals’); And one of the worst series of the company (‘Falcon and the Winter Soldier‘, which despite its unattractive, has some combat sequences that would already want’ Brave New World ‘). Significantly unattractive precedents for a film whose greatest sin is its very scarce sense of risk. Little risk. Among all the decisions that Marvel could have made, opt for continuism, to resume semi -pidered plot lines and for resorting to an aesthetic and plot springs that already begin to sound expired was the least risky. They could have made a real blur and new account, taking into account that the multiverse provided it on a tray, but no: The year that Robert Downey Jr. returns to Marvel It is also the year in which it is clear that Disney is not willing to part with old and exhausted customs. Header | Marvel In Xataka | The lesson that ‘Deadpool y Lobezno’ leaves Marvel: his fans no longer want to “do their homework” to understand their films

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