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how to produce real bacon without having to kill it

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Imagine biting into a piece of golden, juicy bacon with that unmistakable pork flavor, only no pig has had to die for you to enjoy it. And no, I’m not talking about tofu, seitan or another plant replica: it’s real bacon, made from pig cells that still belong to a living animal. A concept as disconcerting as it is unique that is already served in a small restaurant in California. The first cultured pork fat. The startup Mission Barns has become the first company approved to market cultured animal fat and the third to receive regulatory approval for a cell-based food in the United States. In March obtained FDA validation and, shortly after, the support of the Department of Agriculture (USDA)which allowed him to start selling his product on a limited basis. As TechCrunch detailsit is the first cultured pork fat in the world authorized for human consumption. Until now, only UPSIDE Foods and GOOD Meat They had obtained similar approvals, but only for chicken. With this decision, Mission Barns inaugurates a new category: real pork fat without slaughtering it and capable of being converted into bacon, sausages, meatballs or salami. Real meat without slaughter. Cultured meat—also called in vitro meat or clean meat— is not a plant imitation, but biologically real meat obtained without resorting to animal breeding and slaughter. In this case, the animal has its own name: Dawn, a Yorkshire sow who lives in a sanctuary in northern New York. According to Futurismthe sample is taken painlessly and does not alter your daily life. Its fat cells are grown in a bioreactor with plant nutrients and adhere to a porous structure designed to mimic natural pig tissue. After two weeks, the culture generates real pork fat, which is mixed with vegetable proteins – pea, wheat or bean – to replicate the texture of bacon, sausage or meatball. As explained in Gristthe tastings carried out by the company demonstrate by its flavor and texture that it is meat in biological terms, but without animal sacrifice. So, Is it a vegetarian option? The arrival of this technology reopens a great ethical debate. Different studies indicate that pigs They are “very social” animals.capable of feeling fear, stress and complex emotions, and They are considered the fifth animal smartest in the world. Being able to obtain meat without sacrificing them represents, for many, a moral change of enormous scope. That is precisely the reason why, according to The Guardiansome vegetarians have begun to try cultured meat: by eliminating the violence of the process, the ethical barrier that justified not eating meat disappears. Others, however, are hesitant and wonder if consuming “suffering-free meat” fits with their reasons for abandoning animal products in the first place. A global phenomenon: from California to San Sebastián. The race for cultured meat is global. It is not something from the United States, also in Japan either Netherlands They are already developing lines of cultured beef, chicken or fish. And in Spain, BioTech Foods leads the push from the Basque Country, where it is building the largest cultured meat plant in southern Europe in San Sebastián, with plans to operate in 2032. The immediate obstacle is regulatory, since the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) has not yet approved its commercialization. Forecasts. Meanwhile, Dawn—the pig that gave rise to this bacon—continues in her sanctuary, oblivious to everything, seeking the sun and letting her belly be scratched. That fat can come out of it for thousands of servings without your life changing poses an unprecedented image in the history of food. The question is whether society is prepared to take it on. cultured meat promise reduce emissions, suffering and costs; his detractors they talk about an industry still expensive and difficult to climb. Between both visions, the final decision will fall to consumers: whether they accept that the meat of the future can grow in a bioreactor. Image | Unsplash Xataka | Far from the cities, a battle is being fought for the future of the country: that of the pigs against the reservoirs

There are people trying to kill migraine with surgery. Neurologists are putting their hands on their heads

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Migraine is a relatively common neurological disorder among our population that can have dire consequences for those who suffer from it. as it can become disabling for several days in a row. This means that patients’ search for treatments has become desperate to avoid having to being locked in a dark room for several days without being able to go to worksince there is no cure. The problem is that the treatments that are proposed are sometimes not the best. Among these measures we have, for example, the famous piercing in the ear that promises control headaches or even botox therapy. But the reality is that now an operation is emerging that continues to raise doubts. What does it consist of? When suffering from disabling pain, the main thing for many patients is to eradicate it, and the reality is that they do not care how to do it. That is why trigger point decompression surgery, popularly known as “migraine surgery,” is beginning to become popular in the United States. And while in the United States it is gaining more and more ground, the Spanish Society of Neurology has raised the alarm due to its proliferation in private clinics by offering great results against this disease. His story. The story of this surgery does not begin in a neuroscience laboratory, as happens with other techniques that are put into clinical practice. To understand this technique we have to go back to the beginning of this century with the surgeon Bahman Guyuron who noticed something strange: many patients on whom he performed the lifting from the front, that is, the frontal stretch, they reported that after the operation their migraines had disappeared. From there, the theory of extracranial trigger points was developed. The hypothesis is that migraine is not just a brain event, but can be triggered by compression of peripheral nerves in the face and neck due to muscles or blood vessels. Surgery in this case basically consists of releasing these nerves through decompression or cauterization. of four specific areas of the skull: In the forehead region. At the temples. On the back of the head. In the nose area. The discussion. It is not logically conflict-free. On the one hand, there are American surgeons who They assure that between 70% and 95% of patients improve or eliminate their symptoms. However, when we turn to rigorous scientific literature, the numbers become considerably nuanced. The magazine Frontiers in Neurology, who analyzed the data of 627 patientsrevealed a very clear reality. Only 38% of patients undergoing this operation recorded a remission of headaches after 6-12 months. And this is a very controversial figure, since private clinics promise figures that are not what independent studies point out. The study explicitly warns that more elaborate and transparent tests are neededsince the risk of bias in patient selection is high. That is, those patients who are giving the best results are chosen, giving a success value that is not totally real as it does not follow the quality standards expected in a study. In Spain. Our country has gone up in arms against these types of surgeries that seem like a miracle, and the Spanish Society of Neurology (SEN) He does not see the physiological basis behind it that explains its effect. The first thing they see is that the studies are too small (which leaves the results obvious), but they also point out that migraine is a disease of the central nervous system and that “decompressing the nerves” outside the skull lacks biological plausibility. Specifically, the conclusion reached in the SEN is the following: There is no scientific evidence that currently supports that surgery has a therapeutic role for migraine. Therefore, any migraine patient is not recommended to undergo surgery for this disease. Migraine has been studied in depth, and there is no solid evidence that these nerves are compressed in migraineurs. And they go further by pointing out that “migraine has no cure, but there are many scientifically based therapeutic developments and more are to come.” Placebo effect. To understand it, we must know that surgery is an intervention that is imposed on anyone, and the simple fact of going through an operating room generates in a patient the feeling or expectation that they will be cured. That is why this is about measuring in the control groups, which are those patients who enter the operating room, but who do not receive nerve decompression (although they think they do). In these cases it has been seen that patients point out that their migraines have improved, when this is not the case. All motivated also because measuring the intensity of pain in a patient is not easy at all, as it is tremendously subjective, since each person perceives it in a specific way. Your application. In Spain, the technique moves in limbo. It is not financed by social security nor endorsed by the Network of Health Technology Assessment Agencies (RedETS), but it is offered on the private market with prices ranging between $5,000 and $15,000. But the recommendation of specialists in this case is that “any patient with migraine is not recommended to undergo surgery for this disease.” The only exception they make is that you are going to participate in a clinical trial. Images | Adrian Swancar Akram Huseyn In Xataka | Splitting an ibuprofen in half to take 600 mg instead of 400 is a bad idea: it destroys a key piece of its engineering

Now they have decided to kill her and bring her closer to Netflix

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The face washing that Mediaset has given to its streaming platform, until now known as mitele, and what is called Mediaset Infinityit has been spectacular. A considerable reformulation in the visual, technical streaming With their same weapons. The new Mediaset Infinity. Announced at the end of May, this change equals the Mediaset Spain website with that of the Italian matrix of the group. Among the web sections are both live and letter emissions, with exclusive content derived from linear programs and even in the style of what Atresmedia does, original productions for this digital environment. Access to all contents becomes completely free, something that was limited in Mitele. There will also be a premium part, heiress of Mitele Plus in which there will be no advertising interruptions and there will be the possibility of starting a direct from its beginning and downloading content. A family air. It is inevitable to think of a clear inspiration for this redesign: Netflix and the rest of the platforms of streaming that have gone in their shadow (at least the netflix prior to last and much discussed redesign, openly thought to imitate the style of social networks as Tiktok). In Mediaset Infinity we have categories that follow each other horizontally and extend vertically, with visual and very recognizable icons, and organization for seasons and chapters within each program. The influence is even evident in the highlights of the Homeand it is not a bad idea: any spectator has already become accustomed to the use of these menus and organization almost intuitively. Technical improvement. The guts of this new Mitele incarnation have also improved, with an optimized search system, a better organized user area and, above all, an important leap in terms of speed and accessibility. A year and a half of joint work between Mediaset Spain and Mediaset Italy that has set in a remarkable jump for the platform: now the content search is much faster and, above all, moving through the platform is as effective as in any other streaming platform, without the need for unnecessary waiting for seeking programs or hidden chapters. The reorganization of the page works perfectly. Blur and new account. Since its creation in 2011, Mitele has experienced abundant problems, especially technical type: access difficulties that demanded to resalrate the application, Poor performance even with good connections, limited compatibility with Many devices (especially with certain Smart TV models), reproduction errors and availability … a series of problems that were the reflection of an app that had been outdated and that had not been able to evolve at the same rate as the connections and user devices. All the same. It is not an exclusive problem, yes, by Mitele: traditional television have always had problems adapting to Smart TV and consumption on demand. The motives have been varied, from technical and hardware limitations (by compatibility of new televisions with apps) to changes in the business model (to traditional chains, accustomed to a linear model, they have a hard time facing a model that requires flexibility, investment in technology and new forms of monetization, apart from negotiating new emission rights and adapting content), passing through a fierce competition of the streaming platforms, which they They have an advantage because they are native. Inherit users. What Infinity is going to be found are Mitele users: 3.7 million unique users in January, A growth of 16% With respect to the previous year, in addition to almost 2 million viewers on average a day on the platform. Undoubtedly, this growth has played in favor of encouraging Mediaset to make the leap towards the transformation into the new platform, no matter how and a half of development a relevant investment may have needed. A push for Telecinco. Thanks to the huge impulse that the latest edition of ‘The Island of Temptations’ is giving to all platform programsto ‘late’ seems to work Better without his alma mater since, on the other hand, the 1 does not seem to settle completely or in its disastrous afternoons nor in the Competition with ‘El Hormiguero‘, Tele5 has found a break. Vespertine bets such as ‘Jorge’s newspaper’ are consolidating themselves as some of the most value for Telecinco, which he needed from the output of ‘Save Me’ from his grill programs that provided him with solidity. This new platform is another step in a proposal of greater modernity for the group, as well as more ease of access to its programs. Something that undoubtedly their spectators will appreciate, knowing how the contents of both spaces are contaminated. Header | Mediaset In Xataka | The last edition of ‘The island of temptations’ has not only been a viral phenomenon: it has saved the month of Telecinco

I have taken less than a week to deactivate the star function of iOS 26. The filter called is to kill flies to guns

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I’ve been from the night of the WWDC 25held on June 9 using the beta of iOS 26. This is the largest redesign of the Apple operating system in years, and the first real approach to how the company will implement its local artificial intelligence in native applications. One of the most commented functions was that of Anti spam protection. A system that comes to rival some already existing, like Google’sbut in a more aggressive and less intelligent way. So much so that I had to deactivate it just a week later. How the Apple filter works. Within the Apple Telephone App, from iOS 26, there are new ways to filter unknown numbers. Filter incoming calls: the incoming calls of unknown numbers are filtered. Whoever makes the call has to identify and, once we have that information, we can choose to pick up or not. Send all calls from unknown numbers to the voice mailbox. Automatically silence all calls of unknown numbers. The second and third option are quite aggressive (in addition to the second one was already present in previous versions of iOS). The great novelty is in How Apple Applies Ia Upon receiving calls, since it is Siri who attends the person, not us. The first day, the first notice. I receive many calls a week, more than I would like. Mainly, of messaging companies that contact me to know if I am at home. I analyze smartphones in Xataka and the different parcel companies call practically daily. From numbers that I don’t have saved, of course. It soon realized that they were calling me from a parcel company, and the delivery man was not answering the questions of Siri. How do I know? For how this new feature works. Thanks, don’t hang up. When someone with an unknown number calls us, Siri asks him to identify and explain the reason for the call. It is not necessary to be too explicit: it is enough to say “I am Ricardo, it is important.” But here there are two issues. The first is that the iPhone notifies discreetly when the filter is active, with a minimum vibration that we will not notice. The second is that, if the person does not identify, the phone does not start sounding until 20 seconds. A filter that does not filter so much. Yeah The call is urgentit is more than likely to hang. It is just what happened to me this week, both with the deliveries and with a call that I received from my health center. After a robot (Siri) ask you what you want, if you are not willing (or you cannot) answer at that time the question, it is difficult to be 20 seconds waiting for the phone to begin to sound to the other person. I saw perfectly how the delivery man hung before he started sounding and, after asking him (I had to call him later), he told me that he did not know if it was some type of fraud. Normalize that Siri takes it. It will not be easy to normalize that Siri takes the phone. It would be necessary for practically all Apple users to activate this function, and that users understand that every time you call an iPhone, you have to go through Siri. The most important factor of the urgent call is also lost: immediacy. A accident cases in which they call you with unknown numbers, medical consultations … No one likes calls of unknown numbers, but filtering them all, regardless of whether they have advertising purposes or not, is to kill flies to cannon. Google makes it much better. Google Filter suspicious calls of fraud or spam has been filtering years indicating precisely that the calls are spam. If we call us a number for commercial or fraudulent purposes, Google uses its AI model to analyze in the cloud where that number comes from. In the event that we are not clear who calls us, we have nothing but to filter so that the Google assistant does exactly the same thing that Apple does: ask the interlocutor who he is and the reason for his call. It is a practically infallible filter for commercial and fraudulent calls but in which at all times we are finding out whether or not they call us. Image | Xataka and Xataka Android In Xataka | What is the Robinson list and how to sign up for it to avoid unwanted advertising

The war in Ukraine has become a video game. Kill gives points and rewards to exchange in a military Amazon

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It is something that has happened in all modern wars and conflicts, and in Ukraine it was not going to be different. We refer to the use of surprising tactics for combat. We had previously talked about the use of a Naval optical illusion And of a drone that “seeks” That they capture it to display your true threat. The latest: a rewards system with points. The prize: go to a war “Amazon. A war with points. I told it This week Insider and Political. In an unprecedented fusion between military and video game logic, Ukraine has launched a Rewards system that gives points to their soldiers for killing Russian troops or destroying their vehicles, provided that these acts are verified by recording of video drones. These points, called “Epoints”, can then be exchanged In Brave1 Marketa new digital platform that operates as A “Military Amazon”where combat units can acquire from attack drones and terrestrial robots to electronic warp devices or components such as batteries, cameras and engines. Add casualties to buy artillery. The initiative, promoted by Mykhailo Fedorov, Minister of Digital Transformation of Ukraine, seeks to speed up and Decentralize access To the equipment, allowing the soldiers themselves to choose and buy the technology that best suits their needs in the front, either with own funds or through the rewards accumulated by their effectiveness in combat. The system establishes a numerical value for each target Enemy: Six points for each Russian soldier eliminated, forty for each destroyed tank, with equivalences that allow, for example, to acquire drones such as The “Baba Yaga” by 43 points or the sophisticated “backfire”which costs about $ 60,000 for three units. Delivery is made directly with state financing, without intermediaries. The Magyar’s Birds Unitfamous for its FPV drones attacks, it has already exceeded 16,000 points, heading The March rankingfollowed by specialized brigades in unmanned systems and special operations. A military Amazon. Far from being a simple shopping site, Brave1 Market represents a Disruptive Logistics Model and acquisition in times of conflict. Your catalog has More than 1,000 items ranging from advanced armament to technical solutions of communication, surveillance, navigation and electronic protection. Soldiers can navigate the portal, compare models, read specifications and contact manufacturers to close orders. Part of the content is of restricted accessbut the bulk of the inventory is publicly available to facilitate fast and autonomous decision -making from the front. One of the main objectives is to reduce the gap between technological development and its real implementation on the battlefield. In fact, Insider told that many units did not know that certain devices were available; They can now request them directly without having to wait for bureaucratic channels or slow -on channels. Drones as currency. The points system has the drones that, like We have explainedare absolute protagonists of the new battlefield Ukrainian. The most used They are the FPV (First-Person View) and short-range bombing models, operated by highly mobile units that film each impact to document it to the military intelligence network. These videos not only allow to verify the elimination of enemy objectives, but have become The “hard currency” with which more technology is accessed. Each approved purchase is Financed by the Ukrainian Government and delivered directly to the requesting unit, which reinforces a decentralized supply model based on operational merit. Meritocracy and ethical dilemma. No doubt, we talk about a system that converts the war effectiveness into immediate benefitswhich generates a Ethical conflict on the gamification of the conflict. Killing becomes a rewarded act not only with recognition, but with material power to improve the offensive abilities of the unit. Although brutal, the model has proven to be effective for Accelerate the answer On the battlefield, promote tactical initiative and allow troops to access the technology they really need. In parallel, it also represents a form of digitalized war economy, where each confirmed impact translates into purchasing power, each successful mission in Access to strategic resources. A logic that is not free: responds to the urgency of Modernize the military apparatus Ukrainian in the midst of an asymmetric war, and the need to compete technologically with an enemy that has greater industrial and human reserves. Of course, he questions the ethical limits of the military culture model that can generate in the long term. A new military paradigm. The only existence of A “store” like this Change the concept of war in the 21st century. We talk about a digital architecture, distributed and Efficiency oriented Immediate with which Ukraine not only tries to match Russia in offensive capacity, but to overcome it in technological agility, tactical innovation and adaptation speed. If you want too, the battlefield does not seem only a physical space, but also a kind of Interactive platform where each action can be measured, rewarded and transform into operational advantage. A New War Economy where the value is measured, not in abstract terms, but in eliminated objectives, points won and delivered drones. Together with the obvious ethical dilemmas he poses, he also reveals to what extent the modern war is as technological as lethal. Image | NATO North, Ministry of Defense In Xataka | Russia has confirmed one of the great unknowns of war in Ukraine: North Korea accompanies them and not only with troops In Xataka | Russia has crowded a surprising blow to Ukraine: 100 soldiers walking for four days inside a gas pipeline

Renfe aspired to win 5,000 million euros with an AVE in the US copying Japan. His government has just kill him

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Unite the cities of Dallas and Fortworth with Houston. That is the project with which Renfe hoped to continue growing in his international projects. The construction of a high -speed line for just 386 kilometers that allows these cities to be connected in just 90 minutes. The project allows to connect the two most important Texas cities with a train that travels to 386 km/h, according to You can read on the Renfe website. The Spanish company has presented this project as Texas Advisor Central Railroadoffering their experience in “the stages of development, design and construction and in the commercial operation (operations, maintenance, promotion and sale of tickets)”, according to the company’s own words. Renfe went up to the train of this project in 2018 and his involvement grew in 2021 when he signed the contract to become an infrastructure operator. With this new high -speed line I expected to win more than 5,000 million euros from here to 2042, when the contract expired. However, the United States government has withdrawn all funds. A dead point project “I am pleased to announce that Fra and Amtrak agree that the financing of this project is a waste of taxpayers’ funds and a distraction of Amtrak’s main mission to improve their existing deficient services,” The statement indicates Sent by the United States Department of Transport. The words are from Sean Duffy, Secretary of Transportation of the country that has withdrawn the 63.9 million dollars of subsidy that the Federal Railway Administration (FR) dedicated to the high -speed railway corridor of Amtrak Texas, previously known as the Texas Central Railroad project. In the published information, Duffy emphasizes that the project was born with an exclusively private spirit but that with delays and unforeseen costs increased significantly. So much that they estimate that you can go to the 40,000 million dollars “What makes the construction unrealistic and a risky company for the taxpayer”, in words expressed in the statement. The high speed project to join these two cities re -enters the dead and is a setback for the Spanish company. They explain in Five days that Renfe became part of it in 2018, first with a job of Advice and Line Design. In 2021, The contract was extended and made the Spanish company a future operator of the same with which he hoped to win 5.3 billion euros before 2042. However, the issues With this high -speed line they had been accumulating long before. The creation of this line has its origin in 2009 under the company Lone Star High-Speed ​​Rail LLC. Three years later, the company changed its name to Texas Central Railway. After verifying that the costs were fired, it was accepted that public capital supported the project. In spite of everything, the calendar has breached again and again. Environmental and security permissions should have been achieved in 2020 but delays have been added to which the colon of the coronavirus crisis and an expropriation of land that follows in the courts have been added. In 2017, the United States government with Donald Trump to the head included the project as “a national transport infrastructure priority,” they point out in Five daysand with Joe Biden in command of the country State funds from the Infrastructure Plan were allocated To keep the project alive. Now, in Trump’s second term, the Department of Transportation has canceled it. Until now, the plan went to implement a small -scale replica of the famous rail system of Japanese high speed tokaido shinkansenoperated by Central Japan Railway Company (JRC). Thus, the train It could reach 386 km/h peak speed and join Dallas and Fortworth (separated by about 50 kilometers) with Houston in 90 minutes. You wanted to establish a regular service with a train every 30 minutes. Photo | Xataka In Xataka | Japan has just discovered one of the most lucrative businesses of your bullet train: the sale of food carts

2024 YR4 is not going to kill us, but could collide with the moon

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The James Webb space telescope has been observing the smallest object of all its history. For a good reason. It is about Famous Asteroid 2024 YR4 That, at the beginning of the year, it appeared in NASA’s planetary defense systems and ESA as a potentially dangerous object. First measurement. The images taken with the near infrared chamber (NIRCAM) of the Webb Telescope show the light reflected by the asteroid. Those taken with the Middle Infrared Instrument (Miri) show their thermal light. The set of these data has allowed astronomers Determine that 2024 YR4 measures 60 meters in diameterapproximately the height of a 15 -story building. However, the asteroid shares thermal properties with larger bodies, perhaps due to the rapid speed at which it is rotating or the lack of fine sand (regolito) on its surface. It is probably formed by rocks the size of a fist or even larger. It will not collide with the earth. Webb’s first observations, which began on March 8, have also confirmed what they had been saying NASA and ESA: 2024 YR4 is not a threat to our planet. The probability of crossing with the Earth in December 2032 is now 0.0011%. All relief, taking into account that It became 3.2% when there were not enough data yet to close the range of uncertainty in the calculations of his career. The UN will no longer have to coordinate with space agencies to try to divert it or to evacuate cities at risk. I could impact the moon. On the other hand, the Webb has confirmed a 2% chance that 2024 YR4 clash with the moon. It is still a very small probability (seen otherwise, there is a 98% probability that it does not happen), but in this case astronomers are in favor of the impact. That the asteroid clashes with the moon would not put us in danger, and instead would allow astronomers to document the impact of a meteorite, their effects on the satellite and the lunar surface material that would be triggered. While natural asteroids that impact the moon are not so rare, they are difficult to predict even after being observed, when their mass and speed are unknown. 2024 YR4 would be a perfectly controlled experiment thanks to all the data that scientists have collected about it. In favor of the impact. “Part of our motivation to continue observing this asteroid in particular is to find out if that number (the probability of impact with the moon) will also be reduced to zero,” he told New Scientist Andrew Rivkin, one of the astronomers of the Johns Hopkins University who asked for hours of the Webb Space Telescope to observe 2024 YR4. “We cross our fingers so that there is an impact on the moon,” added Alan Fitzsimmons, of the Queen’s University of Belfast. “It would have no effect on Earth, but it would allow us to study for the first time the formation of a lunar crater by a known asteroid.” Images | NASA, ESA, CSA In Xataka | In 2011, a collector bought in Morocco a meteorite. It has turned out to be a direct test of thermal water on Mars

Google is going to kill a mythical app in all Android. The AI ​​is to blame

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He debuted almost ten years ago, and Google has made official the announcement of his death. He Google assistant He was born in 2016 with a simple purpose: to become a simple assistant for basic and automatic day -to -day basis. Put alarms, establish reminders, draw quick routes with Google Maps. Functions that are performed in a few steps in the apps, and that the assistant could solve with a single voice command. But this is not enough for Google, which wants me to Gemini be everywhere. The company’s new artificial intelligence will be the official replacement of Google Assistant, which will cease to be available on phones at the end of this year. It is not good news. Helping for almost a decade. Google Assistant has been with us since 2016already level of functionality was extremely polished. It allowed to interact with both native and compatible applications (Spotify, YouTube, etc.) to perform simple tasks in seconds. Since Gemini was launched for Android, this became the native assistant of the system, but we could always go to the settings to make Google Assistant again the native option. At the end of this year, it will cease to be possible. Gemini is natural evolution, but it has a way ahead. Gemini will be better and more complete than the Google assistant, but worries that at this point he will keep it hard to perform the simplest tasks. In Xataka We deepen how Gemini behaves in front of Assistant in simple tasks As what to do on the weekend, what can we eat today, its limitations when interacting with native system functions (panel shine, telephone sound, etc.). It is a great assistant, but it is not yet polished. Ia, we want or not. In the new Gemini era, we want or not (unless we disable the app and we stay without assistant), all the phones will have the integrated Google AI. This is great news at the level of possibilities: we can generate images, access Gemini Live advanced voice, and have an assistant that will end up being much more complete and useful than Assistant. For those who are not too comfortable with Google’s AI, comment that OpenAi already works For ChatgPPT, it can be used as a native voice assistant on Android, a great option to have the advanced voice mode in a few seconds (although it will be difficult to access other apps). The future of the industry. Google’s pass is the logical, even more so if you manage to integrate (as you are already doing) Gemini on all telephone with its operating system. Apple wants to battle with Siri’s advanced mode, But he is choking And there is no defined date for an AI that should already be present on the iPhone. What seems clear is that, if technological ones want to conquer us, they have to do so by introducing it natively in the system, not as an APP available more. Image | Xataka In Xataka | Gemini Advance functions that become free in March 2025

There was a time in which the big oil companies raised “transition” to renewables. BP just kill the plan

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The British giant BP has announced a radical turn in its corporate strategy: from the green commitment to fossil fuels again. Short. A year after be appointed CEO of BPMurray Auchincloss has dismantled the plan to reduce the production of hydrocarbons that had promoted his predecessor, Bernard Looney. Auchincloss described his new strategy as a “fundamental restart” In the company’s plans: to cut the investment in renewable energy to increase the production of oil and natural gas. A turn in the middle of the investment pressure. The latest BP results did not excite their investors. During the fourth quarterthe net profit of the group fell to 1.2 billion dollars, less than half as in the same period of the previous year. With a collection of dividends of just eight cents per share, Elliott Investment Management, which accumulates a participation Of almost 5,000 million dollars in BP, it has intensified the pressure on the group to improve the return of its shareholders. Given this scenario, BP has decided not to get away from fossil fuels, but to enhance its production. When your neighbor’s beards see cut … Shell, Exxonmobil and Totalenergies, three of the main competitors of BP, They have been improving results Thanks to its commitment to the production of hydrocarbons, whose demand continues to increase slightly despite the energy transition. As the divergence in the performance of both strategies became more noticeable, BP shareholders, especially Elliott, have been demanding drastic improvements in the structure and strategy of the company. How this affects renewables. It is not encouraging news. BP plans to increase its investment in hydrocarbons to about 10,000 million dollars annually until 2027, with the aim of produce between 2.3 and 2.5 million barrels Petroleum and natural gas newspapers by 2030. To be able to do this while returning capital to shareholders, BP will substantially reduce spending on less profitable projects, such as renewable energies. The group will adjust its investments in these areas with a very selective approach, prioritizing transition projects that require a lower disbursement. Its Offshore wind division will become independent from the group. Even so… BP says to continue committed to its goal of achieve carbon neutrality by 2050a legal objective established by the United Kingdom government, which was one of the first to formalize and support with legislation the commitment to reduce net greenhouse gases to zero emissions. BP’s change of strategy can help her be more profitable in the near future, but only a transition. It will clearly be inevitable If climatic policies are maintained or become more aggressive. With the improvements in efficiency and safety of nuclear energy, advances in electrification and increasingly cheaper renewables, excuses are over to continue betting on fossil fuels. Image | BP In Xataka | European oil companies readjust their strategy: they leave aside the green transition before market pressures

allowed to kill Basques in the country

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Iceland is known for its Thermal waters, volcanoes, aurora borealis and glaciersall between coastal landscapes and villages worthy of the best postcards. Until not so long, however, it was not the best destination if the visitor came from a very specific region of the planet: the Basque Country. Although it sounds extemporaneous (which was) and crazy (idem) until a decade ago Scarce the island kept in force a seventeenth -century edict that gave white letter to its inhabitants to assault, steal and even kill Basque sailors. The law is interesting for its content, but also by its context, which connects with the past whale of the region and one of the most terrible episodes in Icelandic history, if not the one that most: the massacre Spánverjavígin. A peculiar diplomatic trip. In April 2015 Martin Garitano, then General Deputy of Guipúzcoa, starred in the one that may have been the most rocambolesco trip of his political career. Not so much for fate, Hólmavika people west of Iceland, as for what There it was done. As part of An institutional act With local authorities during which a commemorative plaque was discovered, they sang songs and recited a marine sentence, Jónas Guðmundsson, commissioner of the region of the region Western Fjords Icelanders, he revoked An edict of the seventeenth century. Why’s that? Very simple. Because the edict in question was probably one of the most rocambolesque, extemporaneous, delusional and cruel of international legislation. The norm He had his origins in 1615 and stressed that if an Icelandic was with a Basque sailor on the island, he could assault him, snatch everything he had on top and even, if necessary, kill him without mercy. Of course, in 2015 on the island, other laws that neutralized that old edict and prohibited the Icelanders from killing Basques just like the slaughter of any other neighbor’s son. But the truth, being felling, is that in 400 years nobody had bothered to repeal the decree of the seventeenth, so technically remained in force. When asked about it, Guðmundsson He joked: “At least now it will be safe for them (the Basques) come.” Of politics and economy. To understand the “Anti Vascos” edict of 1615 you have to know its context. From the outset, the Iceland of the early seventeenth was quite different from that of now. It was not an independent country (status that did not in fact achieve centuries later, In 1944) and his control was in the hands of regional governors protected by the king of Denmark, a position since 1588 exercised Cristián IV. With regard to the economy, at the time there was a lucrative business that especially interested the Danish crown: whale hunting in the North Atlantic. Of the huge cetaceans captured in the sea, meat, bones, sperm and even beards were used, highly appreciated for the elaboration of rods for umbrellas, umbrellas and corsets. If there was an appeal of the appreciated whales it was however its oil. Among other purposes, it was used to illuminate houses and the manufacture of soap, lubricans and drugs. So appreciated was the fat of the whales that There are those who match it To our oil. And what does it have to do with the Basques? Well, they stood out in that company, as Imanol Sánchez explains in detail in An essay Posted in Riev on the Basque whales in the Iceland of the XVII. Their sailors soon look at the possibilities of the Eubalaena glacialthe huge cetaceans that inhabited between Iceland and Mauritania and navigated the North Atlantic during their migrations. And that encouraged them to enter more and more in the ocean. It is known of incursions by the Basque coast to capture cetaceans already in the XI, between the XII and XIV the hunters expanded along the rest of the Cantabrian coast and around the 16th and seventeenth centuries, Sánchez recallsBasque whales were already looking for prey in the waters around Greenland and Iceland. There are evidence that places them there at least in 1604 and before they had already left a mark on Terranova and Labrador. A business played. The problem is that Basque sailors were not the only ones interested in whale oil, a very valuable appeal that also ambitioned the king of Denmark and Norway. And of course, friction emerged. “The Danes were sent by Christian IV to hunt whales to the seas in northern Norway and for the islands Spitzbergen In 1615, and his encounter with the Basque sailors created the first disputes “, He recounts The researcher of the UPV/EHU. In April of that same year, the sailors of Euskadi hunt whales in Aguas de Iceland was prohibited. And to make it clear that the Danish authorities were seriously issued the famous (and terrible) edict that gave a white letter to pursue, assault, steal and kill Basque navigators. Of course, Icelanders were also prohibited to get friendship or trade with the whales of Spain. A MAZAZO FOR RELATIONSHIPS. The belligerent posture that Denmark adopted in 1615 must have been a mazazo for the Icelandic rulers, to say what the Danish law said did allow the islanders to do business with the Basques … as long as the latter passed before box to pay the commissions to pay the commissions corresponding, of course. Sanchez recalls in fact that the relationship between the two peoples was “largely good” and was based on a “close commercial relationship.” His link was narrow and frequent enough to give rise to a Pidgina kind of mixed language, Basque and Icelandic mixture. In the fall of 1615, with the relations with the sailors of Euskadi tensada and Copenhagen especially belligerent, there was nevertheless an episode that would end up advising a severe hand about the relations between both peoples. Of paper … to the baskavígin massacre. The seventeenth century edict that allowed to hunt and kill Basque sailors in Iceland could have remained in a legal eccentricity without more if it were not because, … Read more

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