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Where there were humans before, there are now data. Huawei and Huaneng have deployed 100 driverless trucks in a mine in China

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A row of trucks loaded to the top crosses the mine without anyone holding the steering wheel. They move alone, precisely, As if they were choreographed. And we do not talk about a prototype or laboratory tests: this is already happening in the Yimin mine, northeast of China. According to SCMPthe state group Huaneng has deployed the largest individual fleet of electric trucks without driver operated with Huawei technology in a single mining operation. Behind this deployment is Huawei’s technology, along with advances by Xuzhou Construction Machinery Group and the Beijing University of Science and Technology. In total, there are 100 vehicles of large tonnage, known as Huaneng Ruichi, they move tons of coal without human intervention, even in adverse climatic conditions. According to Li Shuxue, president of Huaneng Mengdong, it is the largest coordinated deployment of this type of vehicles. Connectivity and cloud, two key elements Everything works thanks to a combination of advanced technologies: 5G-Advanced connectivity, artificial intelligence (AI), high precision mapping, cloud computing and intelligent battery exchange. Zhang PinganCEO of Huawei Cloud, explained that the 5G-A, also known as 5.5g, allows to operate with extremely low latency and very high speed. In an industrial environment like this, that response capacity is key. But this has done nothing but start. Huaneng plans to expand the fleet to 300 autonomous trucks in this same mine for the next three years. And the impulse goes beyond Yimin. The National Chinese Coal Association has projected a “Explosive growth” of unmanned mining trucks in 2026. The forecast is that the figure doubles in 2026. Automation is already noticed: the same association estimates that operating costs have been reduced around 8 % in mines that have incorporated these systems. The advances we are seeing in Chinese mining are part of a broader strategy to modernize traditional Asian giant sectors with advanced technology. And what today unfolds within its borders also begins to emerge as an opportunity in other markets. Now, there is another deployment that should be taken into account. In the Zaha Naoer mine, also in Interior Mongolia, they have been put into operation 135 autonomous trucks of extended range that operate daily. The project, promoted by China Power Investment, has other technological suppliers and a different architecture. How does Sina Finance collectthe operation started as a pilot in 2024 and already accumulates more than 770,000 kilometers traveled, with more than five million cubic meters of extracted material. Although the total number of vehicles is higher, it is not a homogeneous deployment. Unlike the case of Huawei, in Zaha Naoer, trucks use diverse systems, some with extended autonomy, and do not respond to a single technological platform. This allows Huaneng to present the Yimin project as the greatest individual, integrated and electrical deployment that has been carried out so far. The infrastructure that makes it possible includes mixed networks of 4g and 5g The infrastructure that supports the Zaha Naoer fleet is backed in mixed 4G and 5G networks, cloud control centers and coordination systems between vehicles. If one of the trucks detects an anomalythe system transmits data in real time so that technicians can intervene remotely without interrupting the operation. Beyond the technological deployment, automation is also reconfiguring the organization of work in the mines. In Zaha Naoer, for example, the use of autonomous trucks has considerably reduced the need for cabin personnel: 325 less drivers and a monthly savings estimated at 4,000,000 yuan. At the same time, operational security has been reinforced, with less direct exposure to risk environments and greater control over each phase of the process. Images | Huaneng Group In Xataka | The US has been dreaming of its first high -speed train decades: the California project is being a real nightmare

Klarna presumed that AI did the work of 700 people. Its quality is so low that it is rectuming humans

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In June 2022, 700 Employees of the Swedish Fintech Klarna were fired. That template reduction was an absolute disaster: The announcement was made with a pre -recorded video, and also the CEO shared the personal data of those employees in LinkedIn. The story did not end there. Not much less. The AI ​​that works for 700 people. After the dismissals, Klarna made a unique decision: to use an artificial intelligence system promoted by Openai models to replace the functions performed by those 700 people. In February 2024, those responsible for the company proudly affirmed that the assistant “is doing the job equivalent to 700 full -time agents“And they also disregard that” it is along with human agents in terms of customer satisfaction score. ” Not so fast. Klarna’s CEO and co -founder, Sebastian Siemiatkowski has started a hiring process that allows customers to always talk to a human agent. The reason is striking, especially taking into account Klarna’s ambition in its use of AI. The AI ​​offered a low quality service. The strategy that proposed to place AI as a fundamental pillar of its support services is no longer valid. According to this CEO, “unfortunately, the cost seems to have been an evaluation factor too predominant,” and explained that “what ends up is a lower quality” in the service. Now they intend to “invest in the quality of human support” for the future. Uber type structure. In an interview With BloombergSiemiatkowski indicated that the Swedish company is pivoting a structure similar to the one Uber: workers can log in and telework for them. That, this manager indicates, will allow in the future these new hiring to replace “the few thousand human agents” that Klarna Subcontrata. Labor is sought (cheap). The pilot project for that transition has a very limited reach, but the objective is to attract candidates as students or people of rural environments. “We know that there are a lot of Klarna users who love our company and enjoy working for us,” said Siestkowski. The intention seems clear: instead of hiring professionals with experience in this area and replacing them with such profiles that will allegedly reduce costs. An erratic evolution. Klarna came to have an assessment of 45.6 billion dollars in 2021, but those decisions made that estimated value a year later It was 6,500 million of dollars. The company now expects to lift $ 1 billion With an OPA that allows to place its valuation at about 15,000 million dollars. The plans of that IPO have been postponed due to the current volatility of the markets. But the trend is clear: less human. Despite these decisions, in Klarna they create technologies such as AI will continue to impact the dimension of their template in the future. The CEO hopes that in a year they will exceed 3,000 current employees to about 2,500. We are seeing it everywhere. Other companies have suffered that “recontraction” effect. IBM fired 8,000 workers To replace them with AI, but their CEO, Arvind Krishna, explained that at the same time they are hiring a lot of programmers and sales personnel. Other companies ensure that replace humans with AI It has really worked very well, but the reality is that many are realizing that After using ia they end up investing in new hiring When needing different profiles such as the aforementioned programmers. AI is removing some jobs and promoting others. The conclusion seems to be the same in all cases. The companies that are betting on taking advantage of everything they can They manage to replace human workers by artificial intelligence systems in routine and very automated tasks. However, those same companies end up realizing that they need more programmers and specialized personnel, probably to ensure that the IAS that do the automated work do so much better than they do as a start. Image | Anna Shvets In Xataka | We do not know if the AI ​​is going to eat your work, but the CEO of some startups are determined to convince you of it

The last time all humans were on earth

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It sounds like the beginning of a science fiction work, but it is a silent milestone in the history of our species. On Tuesday, October 31, 2000 marked the last day in which every human being of the planet was on this side of the atmosphere. Since then, there has not been a single moment in which full humanity has been confined to our native planet. A historical launch. That October 31, 2000, A Soyuz ship took off from the Baikonur cosmodromein Kazakhstan, carrying on board the expedition 1 of the International Space Station: the American commander Bill Shepherd of the NASA and the Russian cosmonauts Sergei Krikalev and Yuri Gidzenko de Roscosmos. The crew reached an incipient ISS on November 2, 2000. It barely had a couple of modules (the Russian Zarya and the American Unity, assembled in 1998), But since then, the orbital laboratory has been occupied uninterruptedly. For 24 and a half years, there is always some human floating about 400 kilometers on our heads. A quarter of a century. The International Space Station is a collaborative project between five space agencies (the American Nasa, the Russian Roscosmos, the European ESA, the Japanese Jaxa and the Canadian CSA). It is not only an international cooperation symbol, but an unparalleled scientific laboratory, that orbits the land every 90 minutes at a speed of almost 28,000 km/h. In this quarter of a century, the orbital station has reached a habitable volume greater than that of a six -bedroom house, with A 109 meter wingspan and an average of seven people always on board. It can attach up to eight spacecraft simultaneously and has hosted almost 3,000 investigations of more than 108 countries, taking advantage of microgravity to study from particle physics to the effects of space trips on the human body. The ISS gives the witness. Aged and with age of agelike the air leaks that bring their operators head, the ISS members plan to leave it in 2030, before A ship developed by Spacex The towing to a safe place for its atmospheric reentry. NASA’s strategy is clear: ceasing to be the owner and main operator to become a key client, thus ensuring the continuous human presence in the low terrestrial orbit. This will allow to continue investigating in microgravity (which is crucial for future missions to the moon and Mars), maintain international collaboration and promote a commercial space economy. USA It has just reduced the budget for ISS hoping that there is a rapid transition to the new commercial stations. Companies such as Axiom Space (with their Axiom Sation project), Blue Origin (With your Reef orbital) or Voyager Space (With Starlab, in collaboration with Airbus) They are developing new private orbital platforms. What if they are not ready in time? If commercial stations do not arrive by 2030, humanity will continue to inhabit the orbit low thanks to China. Vetada de la ISS, China has expanded its presence in space With the Tiangong Space Stationcontinuously inhabited since 2022. China not only plans to double its size of three to six modules in the coming years, but is already opening its doors to international cooperation, as demonstrated by the recent agreement for Train and send Pakistani astronauts To the Chinese Space Station. With NASA focusing on a commercial model and the exploration of deep space, Beijing is strategically positioned as a central actor and a possible alternative in the low orbit, especially for nations that seek to collaborate outside the US frame. A changing environment. But there is another reason why the United States has focused on the moon and Mars. The low terrestrial orbit faces the increasingly critical challenge of space garbage. Millions of objects, from dead satellites and higher stages of rockets to small undetectable fragments generated by collisions or antisatellite missile tests. These waste travels at huge speeds and represents a risk of collision constantly and potentially catastrophic for astronauts. ISS itself has had to perform numerous evasive maneuvers in recent years. Manage this problem through better follow -up systems (especially for small objects), the active withdrawal of the most dangerous waste and, above all, prevention and mitigation in the generation of new space garbage (such as rapid exorbitation of rocket stages) will be essential to guarantee the safety of future long -term crew. For now, and for almost 25 years, we continue to live the space. On October 31, 2000, it was the last day of an era in which humanity was anchored exclusively to Earth. Since then we have been, uninterrupted, a species with extraterrestrial presence. Human permanence outside the earth seems assured, but its sustainability will require even more global effort and cooperation. Image | THAT In Xataka | Elon Musk has made public its latest recommendation for Trump: exorbiting the international space station in two years In Xataka | Boeing has lost: NASA will cancel the SLS rocket and look for a cheaper alternative to colonize the moon and Mars

For many people food is just a necessary evil. So they have started eating “I think” for humans

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During the ten years the iconic series was issued FriendsJennifer Aniston consumed the same salad on the recording set every day without exception. The recipe included chickpeas, chicken or chopped turkey, turkey beicon, hard eggs, tomatoes, avocado, scallions, watercress, cheddar cheese and mixed lettuce, seasoned with vinaigrette and covered with shredded roquefort. This salad, that his cast companions baptized as “the Jennifer salad”, was more than a simple meal; It was a system for not wasting time or energy in thinking about what to eat every day. A way to simplify and reduce times, a trend that is now gaining strength. Human Kibble. In Tiktok, a food trend has emerged that leads to this idea of ​​simplifying food at an even higher level. It is called “Human Kibble” and, as the name implies, it is a food preparation that resembles the pet feed, since it is always the same food. According to the Health mediumthe trend It was started by the user @myfoodisme2, who claims to have lived for more than five years based on this mixture. In your videos you can always observe the same foods that chicken, chopped vegetables, legumes and grains, all cooked and stored in a large container. The idea is to prepare a lot of food at once and consume it throughout the week, thus avoiding the need to cook or think about what to eat every day. Always the same. There is an inevitable question that comes to mind: at what time do we stop seeing food as a pleasure and we begin to see it only as a fuel? In a world where productivity and time optimization have become supreme values, this idea of ​​the same food dish is gaining strength and remembers diets, such as The OMAD to eat only once a day. But, there is one more background. This way of eating always the same every day, can it be healthy? Some nutritionists have expressed that a monotonous diet can be harmful due to the lack of necessary nutrients that surely, According to Healthline. In the specific case of the “Human Kibble” trend, the little variety and condiments can affect the enjoyment of food, which in the long term can trigger a negative relationship with food, such as He explained For Health the dietitian Tamara Duker Freuman. Along the same lines, the null of diversity in food can negatively impact the intestinal microbiome, which in turn is related to the regulation of mood, such as They have detailed In National Geographic. The counter. While the “Human Kibble” tendency proposes to simplify food through a single weekly preparation, there is another alternative that promotes simplicity without falling into monotony: Conscious food planning. Weekly menus planning not only allows time to optimize and maintain control over what we eat, but also encourages variety and nutritional balance. In addition, when planning each dish in advance, it is possible to avoid The easy resource always repeat the same food. Body fuel. Simplifying food may seem quickly to gain time and optimize performance. But where is the art of cooking, savoring, enjoying a meal in company? Are we becoming beings that simply fill the tank with “gasoline” instead of enjoying the process of feeding the body and mind? Image | Pixahive Xataka | Ozempic is supposed to increase the risk of erectile dysfunction. Thousands of people think exactly the opposite

135,000 years ago, humans had developed a key component of universal culture: language

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A way of thinking about thousands of languages ​​spoken by humanity is visualizing them as branches of a tree, thus drawing The evolution of these languages over time. If we move forward in time, we will see the diversification of some languages ​​and the death of others. If we invest the time needle we can see the branch or the common trunk that joins some languages ​​with others. For example, if we draw the history of Galician and Romanian, we will see in Latin the common origin of these languages ​​spoken in remote areas of Europe. We can do the same exercise looking for the common trunk between Latin and the Swedish. For this we would have to go to prehistoric times, to a common trunk we call protoindoeuropeo And what would have been spoken Around 5,000 years. However, this does not serve to unite all the languages ​​spoken by humanity in the same tree. We do not know of a link that one languages ​​native to the Americas, the languages ​​of Asia and Oceania or the African languages ​​with the protoindeuropean. We do not even need to leave Europe to find languages ​​without known relationship: we can draw the common origin of the Finn and Hungarian, but we cannot unite these languages ​​to the Indo -European trunk. That leaves us with two possibilities. The first is that perhaps humans began to speak time after beginning the migratory movements that would lead us to adapt to life in various territories, which would imply that several native languages ​​arose independently. That is, there are several independent trees. The second indicates that this common trunk exists, but changes in languages ​​and the absence of written testimony and time have erased all trace of this native language in the known, alive or dead languages. All languages ​​have a common trunk, but perhaps we never find out their characteristics. The question of the original language can be presented as the problem of the egg and the chicken: what happened first, the appearance of speech or geographical disintegration of the human species? The interconnection between language and expansion of humanity is not mere curiosity because answering a question can help us Date more accurately Two of the key events in human evolution. A recent study He analyzed the issue through a review of scientific literature published in the last 18 years. The work examined 15 genetic studies that through different methodologies They tried to answer the question of when the populations of H. sapiensThey began to break down and lose contact with each other. The 15 works included three based on the chromosome information and, the patrilinerally inherited chromosome; Three focused on mitochondrial DNA, inherited matrilinerally; and the rest studied the set of human chromosomes. The team made a meta -analysis, a quantitative study based on the results compiled in the compiled works, to obtain a new estimate of the last era in which in which All humanity shared spaces In the same region. The estimate indicated that this happened about 135,000 years ago. The team concludes from this data that human language had to have an origin prior to this original diaspora. They start from the idea that, if language had not existed in this origin, we should have found any human society without language or, at least, with a radically different communicative form from what we know as speaks. The details of the study were Published in an article In the magazineFrontiers in Psychology. An evolution in several phases But what exactly is speech? According to Explain the team itselfprevious studies had already pointed out that Other hominid speciesprevious to sapiens They had the ability to speak. The nuance is that this does not guarantee the existence of a language, however simple it is. The issue for the team is not when humans, H. sapiens Or other species, they began to emit sounds, but when they began to develop the language “as we know it”, that is, “combining vocabulary and grammar in a system”, a system capable of generating an indefinite amount of expressions based on their own rules. “Human language is quantitatively different because there are two things, words and syntax, which work at the same time to create this Very complex system”, explained in a press release Shigeru Miyagawa, study co -author. “No other animal has a corresponding structure in its communication system. And that gives us the ability to generate very sophisticated thoughts and communicate them with others.” Miyagawa and his team also refer to the archaeological record to support their conclusions. As they explain, the archaeological record that has left us evidence of the existence of the type of complex thought that supports the language, evidence that date back 100,000 years ago in time. The team refers to this to artifacts that denote a “symbolic activity”, such as objects in objects or the decorative use of the ocher, a pigment. We have known for a long time that H. sapiens It has not been the only human species capable of reaching these levels of abstraction. It is perhaps that is why The debate To what extent species like Neanderthals H. Neanderthalensis They could have developed speech or even language Be far from setting up. In your articleThe team indicates that, although the “complex behaviors” such as burials and body decoration They can also be associated with these species, ours would have been the only one to have systematized them throughout the population. In Xataka | We just found the lost link of human evolution: the first bone toolbox Image | Pxhere / Chivi1085

His name is Kizilelma, he is supersonic and does not need humans

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While Europe debate If you enter the conflict with your troops to support Ukraineand the US and Russia defer the Margarita on that alleged peace agreement Where actors are missingthe war continues in the east. In fact, currently Ukraine manufactures weapons “faster and more cheaper” than any other place in Europeand that is a problem for the old continent, like Danish prime minister explained recently. However, of all updates That they are expected, none as a “package” that would arrive from Türkiye. A milestone and another one. At the beginning of the week a Ukrainian recognition brigade He published a video that showed a fact of the most relevant in the conflict: The destruction of one of the precious S-350 Air Defense Systems Vitlyaz de Russia In the Donetsk region. In this way, Ukraine hit the first example of Russian S-350 land defense system since the beginning of the invasion. We talk about one of the most advanced Earth-Aire missile systems in Moscow that has only rarely deployed in the conflict. However, this milestone may pass by shortly. Even war, as is known and freed these days, could change completely. If a few weeks ago we count that The contest had entered his argumentation Between drones, and later it occurred The first combined offensive of history without humansthe next thing could be an army of “fighters” between very different sides. From Türkiye they seem to have given Green light to that possibility: A first air fight between non -piloted machines against human pilots. Kizilelma: What do we talk about. We are facing An autonomous hunt furtive developed by BaykarTurkish company responsible for drones Bayraktar TB2 and Akinciwhich entered into series manufacturing phase with the initial production of 12 units in 2024. equipped with Ukrainian Ai-322F and AI-25TLT enginesis the supersonic drone that symbolizes the close collaboration between Türkiye and Ukraine, both in technological and political terms. Now, then overcome all the tests and with the serial production, the hunt, the first Turkish reaction autonomous, is ready to enter combat. In other words, we would be facing an aircraft that is emerging as a potential GAME-CHANGER In the conflict. His debut in the Ukrainian heavens could mark a historical moment: that first air fight between an autonomous hunt and a human pilot, anticipating a radical transformation into the modern war. Vanguardia power and technology. Kizilelma is an autonomous hunt capable of take off and land without human intervention and operate from short clues or small aircraft carriers without catapultsa capacity that differentiates it from its western competitors as The MQ-28 Ghost Bat and the XQ-58 Valkyrie. Its design reduces its profile in the radar, although it does not reach the “invisible” aircraft classification. In terms of fire power, Kizilelma has A load capacity of 1,500 kglower than the MQ-20 Avenger from the United States (2,900 kg), but enough to carry guided precision ammissions and air-aire missiles that would allow you to intercept Russian manned fighters. Speed ​​and performance. The hunt is distinguished by its speed and agility, key factors in air fighting. Its initial version It reaches a speed close to Mach 1 (1,100 km/h)surpassing any conventional drone. The second version, Equipped with a Ukrainian AI-322F motor with postquemorit is expected to exceed the sound barrier, entering the category of supersonic fighters. Its 12,000 -meter flight roof is lower than the Avenger (15,240 meters), but its design and maneuverability make it a more flexible platform for offensive and defensive operations, combining autonomy and speed in a single system. The poaching Ukrainian connection The relationship between Baykar and the Ukrainian government It comes from afar. The Turkish company uses Ukrainian engines in the Kizilelma and, According to Reutersplans to open a factory in Ukraine this year, the first out of Türkiye. Besides, Baykar’s position is openly pro-charanianhaving rejected economic proposals from other countries in exchange for military technology. Therefore, the role of Kizilelma in the conflict could be crucial. Its deployment in Ukraine would allow kyiv to compensate for the numerical inferiority of its air fleet against Russian fighters without exposing human pilots to danger. In addition, its potential to perform autonomous air fighting would make it the perfect weapon for wear operations, where the key will be artificial intelligence and the volume of units deployed. A rival for the West. Unlike other combat drones, Kizilelma is an aircraft designed to face manned fighters in direct combat. We said it before, while the United States and China have developed advanced drones such as The MQ-28 Ghost Bat and the Dark SwordTurkish hunting has already reached serial productionsurpassing its competitors in operational availability. The aircraft also has the advantage of being more accessible in costs than a manned gamewhich makes it ideal for countries that seek to modernize their air forces without depending on extremely expensive fighters such as the famous F-35. Although its price has not yet been revealed, it is likely to be significantly cheaper than its US equivalents, which makes it extremely attractive to export. The future of the contests. Already We have been telling before. The Ukraine War has become an offensive laboratory that The military perspective in conflicts have changed. Kizilelma symbolizes the future of these dominated military conflicts, in this case, By autonomous aircraft. In a world where air fighting will be defined by AI and the number of units deployed, Türkiye seems to have taken a step forward by launching an autonomous hunting with real combat capacity and mass production. Plus: that label Supersonic that I would change everything a little more .. No doubt, his arrival in Ukraine could change the air balance of the conflict. Russia, which still depends largely on manned fighters and conventional anti -aircraft defenses, would face a new threat difficult to counteract. With its speed, autonomy and combat capacity, the “Made in Türkiye” seems to be ready to change the modern war. Image | Baykar, Erişim In Xataka | Ukraine has registered the first combined offensive of history without … Read more

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