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For the greatest drone attack in its history

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A few hours ago an attack took place that will surely mark a turning point in the Ukraine War. kyiv launched the Greater offensive with drones From the beginning of the war, hitting Russian air bases simultaneously extended from the western border to Eastern Siberia. The operation, planned for more than a year and a half, points to an unprecedented economic and military impact for Moscow. In the heart of Russia. Ukraine has confirmed officially the authorship of one of the most unexpected and strategically significant attacks of the conflict: the operation “Spiderweb”, executed by The Ukraine Safety Service (SBU), hit the heart of Russian strategic aviation by disabling or destroying at least 34% of its fleet of long -range bombers (there is talk of more than 40), According to Ukrainian figures. The estimated economic damage, if so, would rise to 7,000 million dollarsalthough it has not yet been independently verified. This offensive, secretly planned during more than 18 months and personally directed by President Volodimir Zelenski together with the head of the SBU, Lieutenant General Vasyl Maliuk, represents a paradigm shift in the Ukrainian capacity of long -distance offensive projection, penetrating the interior of the Russian territory with camouflaged drones and operated from mobile platforms. Five key bases and nuclear deterrence touched. The offensive, which as we said took place yesterday, June 1, concentrated on Five air bases Russians: Belaya, Diaghilevo, Olenya, Ivanovo and another without specifying in the regions of Murmansk, Irkutsk, Ryazán and Amur. In these facilities, strategic aircraft such as TU-95 and TU-22m3 bombersusually used to launch cruise missiles against Ukrainian cities, as well as a A-50 plane Early alert. According to sbu sources, 41 airplanes were reached and at least one part was destroyed on land. The Images obtained They show fires on the track and mass explosions, and some sequences would include the voice of Maliuk himself qualifying the attack as a “Bavovna”, an ironic Ukrainian term to refer to explosions in territory occupied by Russia. Unprecedented clandestinity. Attack logistics also demonstrates an unprecedented level of sophistication. Had the New York Times that had images that found that the fpv drones were introduced clandestinely in Russiahidden inside wood structures that simulated houses, mounted on trucks. These vehicles were placed near the air bases and, at a timely manner, the roofs were They opened remotely To release drones, which flew directly towards the objectives without alerting defensive systems. The information It was confirmed Both the SBU and by Russian regional authorities, including the governor of Irkutsk, Igor Kobzev, who acknowledged that the drones were thrown from a truck In the town of Sredniymarking the first time Siberia suffers such an attack. Russian reactions. The Russian Ministry of Defense confirmed that five aerodromes In different regions they were attacked, although he described the offensive as a “terrorist act” of the “Kyiv regime.” Russia said the attacks in Ivanovo, Ryazán and Amur They were repelledand that several aviation teams “caught” in Murmansk and Irkutsk after drone releases from the vicinity. He also declared that the fires have already been extinguishedthat there were no victims and that some participants in the attacks have already been arrested, although these statements have not been verified by independent sources. While, Several Telegram channels Russians recognized that drones came from trucks parked on highways close to the objectives, which exposes significant structural vulnerability in the defense of Russia’s most sensitive assets. Plus: according to Russian and Ukrainian sourcesdrones left from trucks with Chelyabinsk license plates, after being armed in rented stores within the Russian territory, which again implies an unprecedented level of internal infiltration. Ukraine also suffers. The same Sunday and almost in parallel, Russia launched a powerful missile attack Against a Ukrainian training base in the Dnipró region, causing at least 12 dead and more than 60 injured, on one of the few occasions in which the Ukrainian armed forces publicly recognize significant low. As a consequence, the commander of the land forces, the general of division Mykhailo Drapatyi, He presented his resignationassuming “personal responsibility for tragedy”, reflecting a culture of control based on accountability. Although it is ensured that the majority of the staff were protected at the time of the attack, the event revives the debate on safety in military facilities to increasingly intensive and better coordinated Russian attacks. War and diplomacy. The paradox of the war is that both offensives occurred on the eve of New peace negotiations In Istanbul, promoted by Moscow. Although Kyiv had conditioned his participation to receive a Russian memorandum with proposals of Alto El Fuego, Zelenski confirmed the shipment of a delegation headed by the Minister of Defense, Rustem Uumerov. The Ukrainian president did not clarify if such a document had been received, just saying that they had Defined positions of Ukraine before the conversations. Meanwhile, Ukrainian officials accuse the Kremlin of using negotiations as dilatory maneuverwhile looking for military advances in the field after more than three years of conflict. The role of drones. The Spiderweb operation has once again evidenced the tactical value of Low cost drones such as the lack in strategic asset protection within the Russian military apparatus. The lack of reinforced hangars In air bases he left the bombers exposed to swarms of FPV drones (some possibly assisted by artificial intelligence and autonomous navigation based on image recognition), capable of operating without emitting electronic signals and without the need for human remote control. This new generation of weapons not only reduces costs and increases the effective experienced similar incidents. The proliferation of this type of weapons has changed the rules of the global air defense game, accelerating the urgency of developing countermeasures adapted to high -precision asymmetric war scenarios. A before and after. No doubt, beyond material destruction, “Spiderweb” operation It has a huge strategic and symbolic dimension, since it emails that Ukraine can penetrate deeply into the enemy territory with modest but tactically accurate technical means, challenging the idea that Russia can operate with impunity in … Read more

Four AI companies control how Half Mundo reasons. It is the greatest concentration of intellectual power in history

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While the public focus is concentrated in the possibility that the AI ​​will take our job ahead (Business Insider 21% of its template has just announced citing it as a cause, the CEO of Axios has published A text by the chungosAnthropic’s CEO has shouted “that comes the wolf” to justify that only they can save us), In the background something less visible is happening: We are giving our intellectual autonomy in favor of efficiency and comfort. It is not just that four companies –Openai, Google, Anthropic, Meta – are building the infrastructure with which millions of people resolve doubts and make decisions. They not only manage data: they also protect the way we link ideas. The Great Chinese of AI They are out of this equation for a simple reason: their still domestic approach without the international vocation of the Americans. Google (the search engine) was and is influential, but with it we have had to spin our own speech: Cotejar Fuentes, Weighing biases, assume contradictions. The generative AI instead serves a round response that It sounds coherent even when hallucin And that’s why he demands less surveillance. The result is that we are replacing the “internal process” with an external verdict covered with a technological aura that deter the replica. Whatever you say, Chatty. Delegate is too tempting. Save time and headaches. The problem is that we do not subcontract logistics, but criteria. We ask Chatgpt A professional strategy. TO Claude A curriculum. TO Gemini today’s interpretations. In doing so we accept without discussing the biases and empty of a trained model about texts that we will never see. It is an invisible assignment and, therefore, difficult to question. Never before so few hands had defined what questions can be asked and what answers sound reasonable. History has known infrastructure monopolies – electrity, internet, railways – but never one about reasoning patterns. Now another qualitatively appears: It operates on the symbolic plane, where narrative frames are defined through which we understand the world. Very subtle and very decisive. What previously implied a deliberation – read, contrast, imagine scenarios, weigh nuances – today becomes an instantaneous response, of definitive appearance. What to think about euthanasia? How to react to infidelity? What economic model is more fair? We no longer look for elements to think: we look for the correct answer The faster and more comfortable. And we accept as valid the one that sounds best, even if it ignores what does not fit in your narrative. Its effects will not be immediate, but predictable: a slow loss of variety in thought, of ideas out of the ordinary. Platforms have progressive consequences. Tiktok and Spotify, for example, They have made the songs last less and the chorus arrive before. What consequences will the LLMS within fifteen years? If we all consult models that converge towards average responses, intellectual eccentricity – culture rate for innovation – It will be increasingly weird. There is hardly a brake for AI, but perhaps at some point we have to decide how much reasoning we are willing to deliver before staying without it. Outstanding image | Xataka In Xataka | Deep Research is not just a new AI function. It is the beginning of the end of intellectual work as we know it

The most risky and decisive in the vertiginous history of the rocket

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All ready for the ninth Starship test flight, the most important mission so far after the final explosives of the previous releases. With Elon Musk back in Starbase, Spacex seeks to complete pending objectives and, as if that were not enough, try for the first time the reuse of one of the rocket stages, the super heavy propeller. Date and time of launch. Following the pattern of the previous flights, the ninth launch of Starship is scheduled to take off in the afternoon, so that the reentry of the ship on the Indian ocean occurs in the sunlight. The launch window opens on Tuesday, May 27 at 6:30 p.m., local time of the newly incorporated city of Starbase, Texas. In other cities: Madrid, Spain (CEST, UTC+2): Wednesday, May 28 at 01:30 Mexico City, Mexico (CST, UTC-5): Tuesday, May 27 at 6:30 p.m. Buenos Aires, Argentina (Art, UTC-3): Tuesday, May 27 at 8:30 p.m. Bogotá, Colombia (COT, UTC-5): Tuesday, May 27 at 6:30 p.m. Lima, Peru (Pet, UTC-5): Tuesday, May 27 at 6:30 p.m. Santiago, Chile (CLT, UTC-4): Tuesday, May 27 at 7:30 p.m. Caracas, Venezuela (Vet, UTC-4): Tuesday, May 27 at 7:30 p.m. How to see it live. Spacex will broadcast the flight Through its website and His official X profile. The retransmission will begin 30 minutes before takeoff. On this occasion, too They will broadcast live A talk by Elon Musk about the future of the company and its path to the conquest of Mars, which will take place about six and a half hours before the launch. For the most enthusiastic, YouTube channels like Nasaspaceflight, Lab Padre and Everyday Astronaut They usually offer retransmissions with their own cameras from the immediate vicinity of the launch platform. In Spanish, the coverage of Space border, Mission control, Manuel Mazzanti either Spacexstormamong others. All eyes put on the ship. This ninth attempt comes after the investigations of flights 7 and 8, which ended in the loss of the upper stage of the rocket. Spacex has clarified that the causes were different. The seventh flight succumbed to unexpected vibrations that caused a liquid oxygen leak. The eighth, with the vibrations already mitigated, failed for a hardware problem in one of the central raptor engines of the ship, which caused a mixture of propellents and a violent explosion. With the lessons learned, all looks are put on this ninth flight. Double Tirabuzón of the Super Heavy. One of the great milestones of this mission is that the propeller, whose serial number is Booster 14, will be the first to be reused after a successful take -off and landing in the seventh mission. Although 29 of its 33 Raptor engines have already flown, Spacex has carried out exhaustive inspections and replaced single -use components. This time, Booster 14 will not try to be caught by the tower. Instead, he will perform a series of risky experiments during his descent on the Gulf of Mexico: Post-separation controlled turn: several hot separation adapter vents will be blocked so that the thrust of Starship engines make it spin in a known direction, saving propellant. Greater angle of attack: it will try to fly with a more aggressive angle during the descent to increase atmospheric resistance and reduce speed, needing less propenting for landing. Motor tests in spareness: one of the three central engines will be deactivated intentionally during the final phase of the landing ignition to test the capacity of a backup engine. Then, it will go to only two central engines before hard ametering in the Gulf. Many experiments to do. The Starship ship (the number S35) also has a full agenda because it must complete the objectives that Spacex could not demonstrate in the two previous flights: First load deployment: It will display in its suborbital trajectory eight Starlink satellite simulators, similar in size to the next generation of the Spacex constellation. Motor reached in space: he will try again to reade of a Raptor engine in a vacuum to get out of his trajectory. Recentrada experiments: Spacex has eliminated a significant number of thermal tiles of the ship’s shield to test vulnerable areas. It will also test new metal tiles (one with active cooling) and functional capture accessories for future landings in the second tower. In addition, the borders of the tiles have softened to avoid hot points. To top it off, the reentry profile will be more aggressive to deliberately stressed the rear ailerons. The objective is a controlled ameter in the Indian Ocean, where there will already be dawn. Why this flight is so crucial. Starship’s ninth flight is not just one more test. It is an attempt of Spacex to demonstrate the rapid reuse of the super heavy, validate solutions to previous failures in the Starship and, above all, to collect critical data in extreme conditions to approach the objective of a totally reusable launch system. The success in these experiments could accelerate the program, which already has permission to make 25 annual flights. For now, this is the third flight of 2025. Whatever happens, the emotion is guaranteed. Image | Spacex In Xataka | Spacex has been scratching his head for 11 weeks to relaunch Starship. Now he finally has green light to fly again

Magnus Carlsen is considered the best chess player in history. He has not been able to beat the entire world

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Last April 4 began A very special chess chess game. With white pieces Magnus Carlsen, considered the best chess player in history. With blacks, the whole world. And the world managed to force the tables. Carlsen can’t with the world. On May 20 ended This game Freestyle chess, and did it surprisingly. After 32 movements, “the world” forced tables in a lady end thanks to the triple repetition rule. This rule allows a player to claim a draw (tables) if the same position on the board occurs at least for the third time during a game. Magnus vs. The World. The event, organized by the online chess platform Chess.comhe has faced the ex -champion of the world of classic chess – he had that title by not wanting to defend him – against more than 143,000 users of Chess.com who joined strength to try to beat him. Freestyle chess. The game did not use the rules of classic chess, but those of Freestyle chess, the new modality that Magnus Carlsen is promoting. In this modality, the positions of the pieces of the rear row (towers, horses, alfiles, lady and king) are chosen randomly, although two rules must be fulfilled. The first, that the bishops must be in boxes of different color. And the second, can be continued on both sides, so the king must always be between the two towers. Thus ended the game of Carlsen vs The World. Tables by repetition. A legend. Magnus Carlsen, 34 years old, became the world’s largest score player in 2010, at age 19, and has won five world championships. In 2014, it managed to reach the highest elo score in history, 2,882 points. In recent years, tensions with the FIDE and its own tiredness with the classic chess modality have caused the fight to defend the title of World Champion. He continues to play classic chess tournaments, but is especially interested in fast games tournaments and, in recent times, in Promote freestyle modealso known as Chess960 (chess 960) or random chess of Fischer. Voting movement. After each Movement of Carlsen, in the turn of “El Mundo” a voting system was followed that lasted 24 hours and in which all those involved in the game could participate. It was not mandatory to vote in each movement, and to help the players of “El Mundo” there were several “coaches” who shared their own reflections on the best movements with their analysis of the state of the game. A “solid” game. In statements After the game, Carlsen Indian That “in general,” the world “has played a very, very solid chess from the beginning. Perhaps he has not opted for the most entrepreneurial options, but has remained more in the normal chess line, which is not always the best strategy, but this time it has worked well. The world did not risk and worked. In the last movements the players of “The World” discussed whether to force the tables with triple repetition or try to continue playing to win it, even if that supposed the defeat. In the end the votes favored the most conservative strategy, and preferred to force the tables. The world lost against Kasparov and Anand. There have been previous events of this type. In 1999 Garry Kasparov played against more than 50,000 players via Microsoft Network and won after four months. Last year the great teacher Viswanathan Anand He won a game against more than 70,000 players at Chess.com. In both cases they were classic chess games. How was the game? Chess.com analysts have described the game as “a roller coaster” in which there were a couple of dramatic moments. Carlsen came to have a somewhat more advantageous position, but he could not take advantage of it and confesses that from that moment everything was aimed at the tables because “they did not give me a single opportunity.” Image | Frans Peeters In Xataka | A study says that AIs are “cheating” to chess. That’s what we want to think

For the first time in history, we have a small way to try

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In the 2000s, some researchers from the University of California in San Francisco realized that it was true that there were people who needed to sleep less than normal. That is, people who, naturally, sleep between three and six hours (and do not present symptoms of fatigue or cognitive impairment). AND It could not beclear. The consensus among the specialists is that all those people who said to sleep little or did not have a good perception of the time they slept or they were making cognitive damage of which they were not aware. They began to investigate it. Sik3-N783Y. 20 years have taken, but that summarizes the conclusions of their research around the ‘Short Natural Dream’. After analyzing the genomes of mothers and daughtersthey concluded that the Sik3-N783Y (a variant of the Sik3 gene) would be behind this phenomenon. It is not the only one (the team has located five mutations in four different genes), but it seems the most relevant. The problem is that it was difficult to prove. So researchers They introduced The variant in laboratory mice and discovered that, indeed, it slept 31 minutes less than the rest without presenting any fatigue. In fact, with a little stimulation, they could be almost an hour without sleep. And how is it possible? Ying-Hui fu, the neuroscientific behind the investigation, explained in Nature magazine that “our bodies continue to function when we sleep. They detoxify and repair damage. These people (those who had the mutation) can perform those functions at a higher rate than others.” And this is interesting. A new family of medicines. Above all, because Sik3 could become a therapeutic objective. Today, we have several techniques and medications to regulate the expression of genes and, at least on paper, these variants that the Ying-Hui Fu team has located could constitute a ‘roadmap’ to enter the world of sleep products less. And, let’s be honest, the market is huge. The ambition for stealing hours to sleep is as old as man. Is what is behind energy drinkshe Recreational methylphenidate or the techniques for Learn to sleep just four hours: an unbridled career for flee from fatigue and exhaustion. The problem is that it has terrible consequences: they quickly arise immunological problems, Metaboliccardiac, Psychological and cognitive. Lack of sleep (or the dream of little caldiad) is closely related to an increase in coronary heart diseaseof the diabetes and of the obesity. You can also exercise pressure on personal relationships and lead to social isolation. A pill to limit The damage caused by the dream of poor quality It would be a bomb for large pharmaceuticals. Are we close to getting it? It is still early to put it in those terms, but for the first time in a long time it seems that we have a solid way to walk towards it. With all that that meansclear. Image | Nubelson Fernandes In Xataka | The exhausted society: how “existential tiredness” has become the great industry of the West

Android 16 premieres one of the most important redesign in the history of the Google system. This is Material 3 Expressive

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Great day for Android users. Although we have already tried the first versions of Android 16in which there were hardly any changes with respect to the previous version, Google has formalized the changes that will reach this new iteration. Among them, one of the most careful designs in recent years, one that says goodbye to the above with Material Designand that completely redefines the system interface. Material 3 Expressive. From the arrival of You In 2022, Android has been quite stagnant in design. This is not bad news: Google’s operating system currently has a quite careful UI, and has given enough time for all applications to adapt to the interface. However, it already touched a change, and even more so with the suspicion that iOS 19 It will also be one of the biggest changes in UI in Apple’s history. Material 3 Expressive acquires its own identity. It is the natural jump after Material Design, and puts upside down what we had met to date. An even more casual, customizable and complete design language. A new design language. Android 16 will grind, a lot. Material 3 Expressive arrives with even more color palettes and a redesign in key aspects such as the notification panel, status bar (the classic Android vertical bar becomes horizontal such as … iOS), native applications, adjustments … It has been given a walk to the interface to show how well marry the new shades. The launcher remains practically identical, with a downhill bar, the icons with full freedom as usual and native widgets that have also been redesigned. It is important to emphasize that Google is showing this interface in a Google Pixeland that in the rest of the devices will present certain changes. Gmail in you material | Gmail in material 3. More news. Do you remember the “Live Activities” of the iPhone? They also arrive at Android with Material 3 Expressive, a joint work of Google with the rest of the developers so that applications can show real -time information. It is especially useful in food tracking, flight -related apps, and even in Google Maps itself. System animations, transparency effects have also been improved, and renowned the native Android apps themselves to adapt to this new design language. As you can see in the superior image, the changes are quite deep, and have as its purpose not only a more attractive design, but to improve the interaction (much larger and more accessible buttons). Also for Wearos. Google wants to unify the design language of its software, and Wearos It is part of it. Material 3 will not land only on Android, the Google operating system for smart watches will also reach. The interface in this type of devices will virtually completely changed, with much larger icons, redesigned icons, new color palettes and a much more intuitive experience. Everything has been rethink to make it easier to interact with these smaller screen devices. It announced in the same way Gemini’s arrival to Wearos in the coming months, to interact with him as we do with the smartphone. Gemini in the new versions of Android Auto. Of course, this new design will also reach Android XR and partially to Android Auto. There will not be a single Google product based on Android that does not enjoy the new material 3. For when. Android 16 will premiere material 3 from this month of May, so the next betas for the Google Pixel are expected to release the new design. As always, it will not be until the final version when this design is fully official and stable, so it is to arm yourself with patience to enjoy it in the rest of the devices. As always, in addition, it will depend on the efforts of the manufacturers themselves or not this design language. Many customization layers have their own language and do not respect Google design lines too much. Image | Google In Xataka | The best apps for Wear OS (2025)

Who is Greg Abel, heir to the throne of the best investor in history

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Warren Buffett, 94 years old and from the fifth of Clint Eastwood, will no longer be Berkshire Hathaway CEO at the end of 2025, but will continue as president of the Council. The 1.1 billion conglomerate control will go to Greg Abel, a 62 -year -old Canadian discreet which directs non-assurance operations since 2018. Why is it important. The change marks the end of an era. Under buffett since 1965, Berkshire has achieved A yield of 5,502,284%surpassing the S&P 500 in 140 times. The shares fell 5% after the announcement, suggesting doubts about the future without buffett to the daily rudder. Between bambalins. Buffet made the surprise announcement in the final minutes of the shareholders meeting in OMAHA, culminating a plan designed for decades. Abel, who arrived in Berkshire in 2000 with the purchase of Midamerican Energy, has been meticulously prepared for the position. In figures. Abel will inherit: Turning point. Unlike Buffett, famous for his brilliant investments, Abel stands out for his operational capacity. “It’s better than me, but don’t tell anyone,” Buffett joked in 2023. Abel’s biggest challenge will be to deploy Berkshire’s huge cash, something for Buffett has had difficulties in recent times. The contrast. Abel brings a different style. Where buffet is charismatic, Abel is reserved and pragmatic. It is less tolerant with low performance. Your experience is to manage business, not to select actions, a task that will continue in the hands of Todd combs and Ted Weschler. Missing? The transition includes several steps: Separate the roles of President and CEO for the first time. Maintain investment management under combs and weschler. Insurance under the command of Ajit Jain. Howard Buffett as the future president after Warren’s death. Gradual dissolution of Buffett’s class A actions for a decade. The big question. Will the Berkshire model survive without its creator? Many believe that Buffett’s genius was to create a system designed to endure. “Greg will keep the culture”, said Charlie Muger in 2021. It was a way of dropping that Abel will preserve the values ​​of permanence, autonomy and integrity that have marked the unicorn of investment firms. The background. Buffett leaves when Berkshire is at its peak, but when the investments he prefers – foreseeable companies with stable cash flows at reasonable prices – they are scarce. In fact, it has closed positions lately Even in an all Apple. The buffet indicator, which compares the market value with GDP, exceeds 180%, well above the 100% that Buffett considers excessive. In any case, Abel does not need to be another buffet. His mission will be to guide Berkshire towards his next phase, maintaining his principles while adapting his strategy to a world very different from that of 1965. Outstanding image | Xataka In Xataka | The best paid CEO in the US is not in Apple or Tesla. It is a complete stranger of a company that you had not heard

In the middle of the cold war, the yoke had the honor of becoming “the worst car in history.” Threat with returning as electric

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It was manufactured for almost thirty years and those who remember it do so with that half smile that only brings you the nostalgia and paternalism of those who love a child knowing that his brother is much smarter. It will return in 2027 in electrical format and retain some of its hallmarks. Hopefully, for the good of all, that it does not retain all its hallmarks. We talk about the yoke, a car that became famous in the Soviet Yugoslavia and that will return to life in 2027 in purely electric format. At least That is what Serbian businessman Aleksandar Bjelić wants. Congratulations, has created the worst car in history Small, simple, affordable … Soviet. The yoke was one of those cars that went down in history on the other side of the steel curtain for its proposal to motorize the masses. Like the Riva Lada in Russia or the Trabant in the Berlin and Communist Germany, the Yugo was part of the history of Yugoslavia during the 80s. In fact the car survived the country itself as eThe yoke remained in production until 2008. His secret resided in the simple of the proposal. Fiat 128 shortened variant, the car was a small utility that was manufactured in Serbia. A three doors that set everything to sit the passengers on top of four wheels and in front of a steering wheel. Its origin must be sought in Kragujevac, Serbia. Over there, Zastava Automobili He assembled cars that exploded a Fiat license. That is, the same as I was doing Seat before Volkswagen passed. Among those licensed cars was the Fiat 128 that the company exploded in Yugoslavia with the novel name of Zastava 128. Jokes apart, the car was a success that added 1.5 million units sold by adding its different bodies between 1971 and 2008 when the car stopped selling. In the 80s, Zastava He decides that he has to offer a cheaper version and puts on the market the Zastava Yugo or Zastava Koral, a cut version derived from Fiat 127. The car is a success in Eastern Europe in part because of its iconic image. It has logic taking into account that the car looks like Volkswagen Golf. In fact, if we observe the first generations of both, it looks a lot at Volkswagen Golf. As much as to affirm that Giorgetto Giugiaro He should not have given the concept many turns when he was commissioned to look for a form to the yoke. Thus, with the firm of Giugiaro and the promise to put on the market a simple car the Zastava Yugo began to make a name. Under his hood he set up a simple Fiat engine of 908 cc and 45 hp. A power that gave the last name to the car when it was exported out of Serbia as a yoke 45. Later a slightly more powerful version of 1.1 liters and 55 hp would arrive. A 1.3 -liter and 65 hp option was even put on the market. As we see, it didn’t seem The car you would buy to travel large kilometers. In spite of everything, you have to understand the time and that, of course, neither Yugoslavia first nor Serbia later had to invite those kilometers. That was what Malcolm Bricklin should not have understood, the businessman who in 1985 wanted to introduce the yoke into the US market. Let’s review, a small, simplistic car and with a dwarf engine on a highway in the United States. It didn’t seem the best of ideas. And it wasn’t. “Cheap to buy. Terrible to drive”. With these words they define Hagerty from the United Kingdom to the healthy yoke that was sold in the United States as a Florida yoke. And that was a version above the aforementioned yoke 45. A car, the healthy one, which mounted a more powerful engine, in versions of 1.4 and 1.6 liters to get a better performance on the road. The lower version, that yoke 45 was sold in the United States with the name of Yugo GV. It was, by far, the cheapest car on the market. But the rolling quality was as bad that it was considered the worst car in the world. The criticisms were so bad that it quickly became a joke, it would have been a meme with wheels if at that time The word “meme” would have existed. Almost immediately, the car was made a hole in the hearts of the fans. In fact, you can find a book written by Jason Vuic entitled exactly like this: Yoke. Boom and fall of the worst car in history. The fascination was huge by a car that simply accounted for breakdowns due to pairs and offered poor results in security tests. So bad was the experience that was the car with the worst note of customer satisfaction in the prestigious JD Power in 1986. Precisely In JD Power they explain that in the Consumer Reports analysis it was specified that “the car dragged up to 100 km/h” and that in the best case the peak speed reached 86 mph (about 138 km/h). But those criticisms arrived after many buyers had already done with the car. A yoke giving everything Its price was so low that they sold more than 1,000 units on the first day. Then, the nightmare of the owners began. The spark plugs collapsed Because the United States gasoline was not adequate, the distribution strap had to be repaired at 30,000 miles (about 48,000 kilometers). Little by little, the ear mouth extended and the lawsuit plummeted. So plumme that according to the American portal they were sold with 2×1 offers despite its low price, with the idea of ​​the concessionaire to take them off as soon as possible. The performance was so bad that in 1992 the American subsidiary of the company broke. However, the car continued its performance in Serbia. The company came to 2008 When it … Read more

The history of the iPod that saved it is a story of secrets and technical miracles

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“Today it is almost impossible to imagine it, but there was a time when Apple was about to disappear”Thus, our new episode of ‘Xataka presents’ starts, with a direct squeak to the history of one of the most admired companies on the planet. And it is not just a good beginning: it is a reality that many people have forgotten. In this series we have already explored other curious stories of technology, Like Bonzi Buddythat purple virtual assistant who promised to help and ended up becoming a digital nightmare. When we think today in Apple, we think of leadership, in innovation, an ecosystem that many try to imitate. But there was a time when all that seemed a mirage. Apple was against the strings. And if he managed to survive, it was thanks to a series of decisions that, seen in retrospect, seem almost miraculous. What decisions were those? What product was so important that the company’s trajectory changed completely? And above all, how was it possible that A seemingly simple device (A music player) will end up being the turning point of an entire era? If you are passionate about technology as well as us, this video is a mandatory trip. Because we don’t talk only about iPod. We talked about vision, of risk, of moments when everything could go wrong. How a company without experience in pocket products, without know-how In lithium batteries or portable software, he threw himself to the unknown … and won. “The iPod was that product and it was a success,” says our partner Jota García in the video. But getting there was anything but easy. After the purchase of NextSteve Jobs had returned to Apple with a clear mission. The IMAC had already been a first blow on the table, but it was not enough. Napster stirred the foundations of the music industry. The CDs began to lose ground. The world asked for another way of consuming music. Jobs, as always, didn’t want to settle. “He didn’t want to make another partner of the pile. He wanted to do the best. The most elegant, the fastest, the simplest.” Hence an unusual piece: “A 1.8 -inch Toshiba hard drive, compact, light and with 5 GB of capacity.” And from there a phrase was born that would end up defining a whole generation: a thousand songs in your pocket. And did you know that the name “iPod” was not even Apple’s idea? Or that the project was almost secret and was about to be canceled more than once? In the video we break up step by step how Apple went from the “P-68” to the device that would change everything. “They had no experience by manufacturing pocket products. They did not handle lithium batteries, they did not have software for portable devices … ”. The Apple at that time was not the Apple now. It was a vulnerable company. And yet it was launched with everything. The rest is history … but a story with many nuances. Because when Jobs presented the iPod, not everything was ovation. “The day Apple presented the iPod … almost nobody cared.” It cost $ 399, it worked only with Mac, and many media criticized him openly. And yet, there was the magic: Apple’s story was beginning to rewrite, although few knew it yet. In the video we relive that moment, and also how, step by step, Apple broke his own rules to change his destiny. In addition, we navigate the history of the iPod until its disappearance and his legacy on the iPhone. But that story not only serves to understand the past, it also helps us to contrast two very different times. That Apple that improvised to survive Today is one of the most valuable companies in the worldbut still making strategic decisions not to be left behind. In full career for artificial intelligence, he has presented Apple Intelligence and has announced the integration of Chatgpt In their operating systems. All that, as then, with one goal: to continue in the race when the direction of technology changes again. Did you have an iPod? Do you remember the song you listened to most? Leave it in the comments. And give the play. Because if you ever thought that everything had already been told about Apple … You haven’t seen this video yet. Images | Xataka In Xataka | If Apple does not want to be left behind in the AI ​​race, you have a very obvious option at your fingertips: Buy Anthropic

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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