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We are sending cannabis samples to space. They will be key to knowing if we can colonize the moon or Mars

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Throughout our short space race we have sent the most diverse things to space: from golf balls up to 2,000 small jellyfish (that returned being 60,000), going through latea piece of the Wright brothers, an electric car, a gorilla costume and a pizza. Today to this peculiar list we have to add about 150 cannabis seeds. The reasons? Strictly scientific. Mayasat-1. That is the name they receive both the mission (Integrated within Mission Possible 2025) as the incubator on board which have traveled seeds, algae and human DNA, among other things. In total, 980 samples of 11 different customers. The incubator has been developed by the Genoplant Research Institute in Slovenia, but who has decided to send cannabis seeds to space has been Martian Grow. Transport-14 | Image: Genoplant Mayasat-1 | Image: Genoplant Three laps. Before addressing the why of cannabis, it is convenient to understand what the mission has consisted, whose duration has been three hours. Mayasat-1 took off on Monday 23 at 23:50 aboard a Falcon 9 from Spacex from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California. It reached a height of 520 kilometers (120 kilometers more than the International Space Station) and completed three laps around our planet. Specifically, through polar areas. Because? Because at the North and South poles exposure to radiation is very, much higher than that of Ecuador due to the magnetic field. The objectives. There are several, but they can be summarized as follows: Observe the survival of samples to radiation, microgravity and temperatures of space to have an idea of ​​its ability to resist extreme conditions. Investigate possible adaptations, such as genetic or structural changes, which may have occurred in response to the environmental stress factors. Study the possible implications for the cultivation of plants in space or advances in medicine. Serve as proof of concept for the realization of biological experiments in space. And now yes, cannabis. Božidar Radišič leads the initiative Martian Grow and works as a consultant at the Research Nature Institute in Slovenia. In statements collected by WiredRadišič believes that “sooner or later, we will have lunar bases and cannabis, with its versatility, it is the ideal plant to supply those projects.” In his own words, cannabis “can be a source of food, proteins, construction materials, textiles, hemp, plastic and medicines. I don’t think many other plants give us all these things.” But cannabis … Yes, it is associated with a very different recreational use, but its potential as a plant is tremendous. The Cannabis sativa l produces THC (tetrahydrocannabinol, the main psychoactive compound) and CBD (Cannabidiol, has no psychoactive effects), but these are only two of the More than 550 chemical compounds found to date. And although we do not know what effects each and every one of them has, we do know that the plant is surprisingly resistant. Image | Crystalweed Cannabis Hold on what you throw. Cannabis sativa is a plant that resists ultraviolet rays and gamma radiation (in fact, it is used in its industrial production to decontaminate it). It is also extremely versatile, being able to grow both in Mexico and India, Nepal, Netherlands or Afghanistan despite the fact that its origin is in the Himalayas. Nor is it a plant that needs too much water and can be grown in different types of soils. Their ballots to be a successful space crop are, therefore, abundant on paper. And why send seeds to space? We know that radiation and genetic mutation is able to generate new varieties of species with different properties. “So far more than 3,400 new varieties of more than 210 species of plants using genetic variation induced by radiation and improvement by mutations, “they explain from the International Atomic Energy Agency. For Radišič, that is precisely the key: “It’s about finding out if cosmic conditions affect cannabis genetics, and how they do it, and we may only discover it after several generations.” Radiation exposure can cause mutations, not all negative, not all positive. The key is to detect those that can play in favor of humanity. The problem, of course, is that we need more information. Image | Genoplant Further. We have already cultivated lettuce at the International Space Station, Thalian Arabidopsis on lunar soil and Sent seeds to spacebut all radiation exposure has been in low orbit (up to 2,000 kilometers high). The responses to the radiation of a plant at the International Space Station may not be the same as those of a plant on the moon (at 38,400 kilometers away) or on Mars (54.6 million kilometers). One of the projects that seek to explore how plants cultivated on the moon respond is Leafa NASA mission that will travel to our satellite in the mission Artemis III In 2027. Next steps. When the capsule returns, the Božidar Radišič team and the Faculty of Health Sciences of the University of Ljubljana will study the seeds, their possible mutations and adaptations to obtain results and see which compounds have altered and how. “Whether there are changes as if not, both results will be important for the future, so that we know how to grow cannabis in the space environment,” says Radišič to Wired. An important job. Colonizing the moon or Mars is not only a technological challenge, but also logistics. It is not viable to transport food to keep the population of another planet, so it is capital to learn to cultivate in lunar and Martian soils, completely inhospitable and hostile. There have been advances and research with different proposals For many yearsbut there is still no solution that seems perfect. Images | Genoplant In Xataka | We have found a plant capable of producing 40 cannabinoids. A closer plant evolutionarily to lettuce that to hemp

Without knowing very well how, two KIA employees have stolen 1,000 engines in five years. And the hole is 2.3 million dollars

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“In this plant there are missing engines.” Something like that must have said in the plant Kia in India where an audit discovered that there were missing engines. Specifically 900 combustion blocks that nobody had news and that They would have disappeared during the last three years. With the passage of time the investigations have followed their course and, with them, they have discovered that the hole was even greater than expected. They point out in Motorpasion that the last investigations suggest that the engines would have disappeared because, during five yearstwo employees have stolen them from the factory itself. And, specifically, it has been a total of 1,008 combustion blocks that have raffled the safety of the plant at some point throughout it. 2.3 million in combustion engines The investigations, evidently, wondered how two operators could get more than a thousand engines out of the Kia plant without anyone noticing. And the answer seems obvious: they were not alone. According Police have unraveled what happened have discovered that, at least, they calculate that Six people They were involved. Two of them inside the factory, two others who worked on their transport and one last couple were in charge of their distribution. The workers had positions of responsibility within the motor line and point to The Economic Times that falsified company documentation as invoices and papers in which the output of the engines was registered to transfer the doors. One of these workers is detained and is being investigated but the second is missing. Once this first control is over, it is believed that engines They were transferred in a truck to Nueva Dheli. That is, a trip of more than 2,000 kilometers since it is necessary to cross a good part of the country. Trucks used false registration plates and indicate in Reutersalready in the city they were distributed selling them as they had left the factory. That is, completely assembled. The money that points to a hole in KIA accounts of 2.3 million dollars, according to the police, was used for personal expenses, purchase of homes and solve past debts. The robbery realized in Kia following some strange movements registered by the security and documentation cameras that did not square. Regarding punishment, in Motorpasion They point out that the two employees They have not yet been accused of a specific crime for which they will have to wait for the trial. However, Local media They point to sentences that could exceed 10 years in prison once the process ends. Photo | Kia In Xataka | After the theft of 12,000 cars in a year, the police in this city have given a neighborhood council: leave the keys in sight

the 15,000 ninja companies that dominate key niches without anyone knowing them

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China not only manufactures giants such as Alibaba, Tencent or Tiktok. He has built meticulously An army of 14,600 “small giants” that dominate fundamental industrial sectors, but without making noise. Why is it important. While in the West we follow the track of BydXiaomi, Bytedance or Huaweithese specialized SMEs are those that control the pieces of the industrial puzzle. Sensors, aerospace components, specialized semiconductors: the niches where technological supremacy is really won or lost. The context. He “Little Giants” program He was born in 2015 as part of “Made in China 2025“Its objective: push highly specialized medium -sized companies to develop competitive advantages in specific sectors. A surgical model against the model of large state companies. There are 15,000 “small giants” with official certification. Almost 90% are in the manufacturing sector. More than 80% focus on emerging strategic industries such as integrated, robotic or aerospace circuits. And almost 5,000 work in AI AND CLEAN ENERGIES. That is happening. Each “little giant” receives state support to dominate a specific niche. Submarine cables, superconductor materials, quantum sensors, satellite systems … technologies that seem lower but vital for global supply chains. And for Chinese military development. Some examples: Leaderdrive: Specialized in precision harmonic reducing. Endovtec: Develop advanced endovascular devices. Phabuilder: Biotechnology to produce industrial materials. Acoinfo: Develop real -time industrial operating systems. Guizhou Anda: Battery materials, supplies Catl and Byd. WELION: solid state batteries of high energy density. JIASHIDA Robot: Domestic cleaning robots. It is no accident that The United States has already included many of these companies in their blacklist. They are the real threat: not the brands that anyone knows, but those that manufacture the components that make the world work. This “unique champions” strategy makes medium -sized companies practically monopolies into ultra -specialized sectors. Result: If you need a certain type of semiconductor or components, you have no alternative. And that company is subsidized, protected and backed by the Communist Party. Outstanding image | Acoinfo In Xataka | China has an ambitious plan to overcome the West in Technology. And he has already chosen his 18 companies to get it

We are getting closer to ahead of the arrival of Alzheimer’s. Knowing it can reassure us, but maybe too much

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Get ahead of the arrival of degenerative diseases such as Alzheimer’s is today a chimera, but achieving it would be key when looking for treatments that manage to go beyond containing symptoms and are able to reverse the disease. What is already in our hand is to estimate our risk of suffering. The question is to what extent is a good idea. Pros and cons. This type of evidence that allows us to know our chances of suffering from Alzheimer’s impact on our psychological well -being and our motivation. A new study He has investigated In these effects and has observed that, although this knowledge does not have an effect on our emotional stress can reduce our motivation to maintain a healthy life. Even among people with a high risk of suffering from this disorder. Win the career to the disease. Get ahead of Alzheimer’s arrival It is key For professionals who treat it: the sooner the diagnosis is the greater the margin of maneuver to design the ideal therapeutic strategy that allows to slow down the appearance of symptoms and their progressive worsening. It also helps patients and their environment adapt to the arrival of the disease, psychologically but also more practical. Count plates. Although we do not know the mechanisms that operate after Alzheimer’s, we know that beta-amyloid plaques play a fundamental role. These clusters that are formed in the brain appear in people with this disease and are therefore an important diagnostic tool. The scanners Positron emission tomography offer a non -invasive technique that allows you to detect these clusters in the brain. From the identification of these clusters it is possible to estimate the risk that the disease begins to unleash a patient and allows health personnel and affected people to take the necessary preventive measures. 199 participants. The new study had 199 participantsall healthy adults who would go through this process to determine the presence or absence of plates in the brain. Before completing the scanner, the group completed surveys to find symptoms of anxiety, depression, memory and motivation problems; Surveys that repeated six months after the test. The details of the study were published In an article In the magazine Alzheimer’s & Dementia. Lights and shadows. As explained by the team responsible for the study, participants who did not present plaques experienced “emotional improvements”: lower depression, anxiety and even less memory problems. However, the team also observed a lower degree of motivation when taking measures to improve their lifestyle to make it healthier. Among the participants there were also cases in which plaques were detected. They also did not see an increase in depressive symptoms a memory problems, but their anxiety level was reduced. The problem is that, as in the case of the first group, its motivation to introduce changes in their day to day was also reduced. “The findings suggest that revealing the presence of amyloids does not negatively affect the participants, and simply knowing the results seems to decrease the negative feelings globally,” explained in a press release Schnaider Beeri, Ocautora of the study. The role of the psychological. Physiological diseases can affect our mental well -being, but our psychology can also play a determining role when facing body diseases. Motivation when introducing changes in our life is, in this sense, of difficult importance to estimate. In Xataka | If the question is how to hunt the Alzheimer Image | Daria Obymaha

We have been knowing where a strange sound has been coming from. Now he has returned strongly to an island of Scotland

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There are phenomena that challenge not only reason, but even perception same of reality. One of them is remembered in Scotland Since the end of the 90s, a low frequency buzz that is heard in different parts of the world and that, although for the majority it goes unnoticed, for those who perceive it is as real as it is unbearable. The buzz has been called The Humand on a Scottish island it seems that it has returned strongly. Breaking calm. In the apart Lewis Islandin the Scottish archipelago of the Hebrides, a persistent and strange low frequency hum has begun to disturb the life of its inhabitants, generating confusion, anxiety and health problems among those who claim to listen to it every night. It is a serious, pulsating and penetrating murmur, which prevents the sleep and causes vertigo, headaches and even alterations of concentration, according to testimonies collected by the British media. Despite its intensity for those affected, the phenomenon lacks a clear source and remains out of the reach of consensual explanations. The person responsible for documenting this disturbing anomaly is Lauren-Face Kirtley, founder of the support group “The Hebridean Hum”which has compiled dozens of complaints citizens and acoustic records in different areas of the island, in which a persistent signal of about 50 Hzvariable in intensity, but present in all cases. This data has allowed to rule out local sources such as port infrastructures, wind turbines or industrial facilities, and has redirected the search towards a possible origin … marine. Between the physical and the perceptual. Although some members of the group have considered physiological hypotheses such as otacoustic emissions (Sounds generated in the inner ear), the geographical disparity of the experience weakens this line of explanation. Pamela Weaver Larson, one of the group’s participants, said Do not listen to the buzz When he moves outside the island, which would indicate a Located environmental source more than a subjective phenomenon. This contradiction reveals the complexity of the case, which is registered in a much broader pattern: the call “Worldwide hum”an acoustic phenomenon documented for decades in various regions of the world, whose causes remain enigmatic and their simple existence remains questioned by scientific sectors. Glen Macpherson, founder of the World Hum Map and Database Projecthas compiled hundreds of testimonies that describe a buzz similar to the engine of a parked vehicle, more noticeable at night and in closed spaces, although generally described as omnipresent. The Hum, the beginning. As we said at the beginning, at the end of the 1990s Scotland began to perceive these hum. This was lived by Georgie Helop, a Scottish woman who after the death of her husband moved to the coastal town of Largswest of Glasgow, looking for peace of mind. What he found was the beginning of a sound nightmare: a constant buzzserious, similar to that of a truck in idle, which seemed to have no visible source and that was even more intense inside his own home. It wasn’t just an annoying noise. With the passage of time, the phenomenon began to cause physical ailments: headache, nasal hemorrhages, ear pain, chest oppression. As a desperate measure, Helop came to sleep in a tent in the garden, looking for peace that he did not find inside the house. Your case It was not isolated: Over time he discovered that not only in Largs, but in other parts of the United Kingdom, the United States and the world, many other people also reported to hear the same inexplicable buzz. Bewilderment. So and look back, Since 1973 similar cases have been documented in Very different towns: Taos In New MexicoHueytown in Alabama, Rome in the seventies, Bristol board In the United Kingdom. In many of these places, only a small fraction of the population, often middle -aged womendeclares to listen to the noise, which has led to multiple speculation about its origin. Some theories point to Physiological conditions as Tinnitusa sound perception without external stimulus. In the 1990s, hearing experts suggested that those who heard the buzz simply did not accept their clinical diagnosis. But over time, and thanks to the advancement of technology, some scientists have managed to detect real emissions, of such low frequencies Like those 50 or 60 hertziosand even others higher in the range of the Megahertzios, which has opened the door to explanations that go beyond the inner ear. Another explanation. Some hypotheses point to Combined frequencies which generate a kind of “milkshake” only perceptible to a minority with extreme acoustic sensitivity. Others suggest that the buzz originates in modern infrastructure (telecommunication towers, wind turbines, gas pipelines, military facilities), or even in electromagnetic or acoustic phenomena not yet understood. Project map started by Macpherson The map of an invisible sound. As we said, in 2012 a Canadian professor named Glen Macpherson began to listen to the buzz in his home in Sechelt, in the British Columbia. His personal experience led him to found the World Hum Map and Database Project, a collaborative platform where affected people can Register your location and share your experiences. Over the years they had already been reported More than 5,000 points of the planet where it was claimed to hear the buzz. The project has contributed to visible an experience that for decades was discredited or attributed to psychological causes. In the case of Helop, scientists who analyzed their home could Register anomal frequenciesconfirming at least partially that something physical happened in that environment. New explanations. Like those with the most recent cases, one of the explanations that has gained more strength associates the phenomenon with the geography of coastal areas. Largs, like many other points where the buzz is recorded, is located near the ocean. According to This theory exposed at the time In the Washington Poststorms in the sea generate waves whose impact is transmitted to the ocean bed, causing vibrations that extend through the earth’s crust. These oscillations could travel at great distances and be detected by those with … Read more

AI is a great black box that prevented us from knowing how “I thought” inside. Until now

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AI do not have No idea what he says Not why he says it. When he responds almost everything makes sense – even his legs of legs – but he only seems to us, because the machines do not understand what they do. They simply do. We do not know how the IAS think inside, but that seems to be able to change soon. Opening the black box. Those responsible for Anthropiccreator of the chatbot Claude, They affirm having made an important discovery that will begin to understand how the LLM work. These models work as large black boxes: we know what we give them starting (a prompt) and what we get as a result, but it is still a mystery what happens within that “black box” and how the models end up generating the content they generate. Why it is important to know how “think” the AI. The inscrutability of AI models generates important problems. For example, it makes it difficult to anticipate If they “hallucinate” or make mistakesand why they have committed them. Precisely knowing how they work inside would allow better to understand those incorrect responses to correct these problems and improve the behavior of these models. Safer, more reliable. Knowing why the IAS do what they do as they do would also be crucial to be able to trust us much more. These models would therefore allow many more guarantees in areas such as the privacy and protection of the data, something that can be a barrier for companies to use. And reasoning models, what. The appearance of models such as O1 or Deepseek R1 has allowed that during these “reasoning” processes the AI ​​apparently shows what you are doing at all times. That list of minitareas that is completing (“searching the web”, “analyzing the information”, etc.) are useful, but the so -called “chain of thought” does not really reflect how our requests are processing these models. How does Claude calculate how much are 36+59? The mechanism is not entirely clear, but in Anthropic they begin to decipher it. Source: Anthropic. Deciphering how AI thinks. Anthropic experts have created a tool that tries to decipher that black box. It is something like magnetic resonance scannars that study the human brain and allow to detect which brain regions play their role in certain cognitive areas. Long -term responses. Although models such as Claude are trained to predict the following word in a sentence, in some tasks it seems that Claude makes a kind of longer term planning of the task. For example, if we ask you to write a poem Claude you first find words that fit the theme of the poem and then go back to create the phrases that will generate the verses and rhymes of the poem. A language to think, many to translate. Although Claude has multi -mounted support, Anthropic experts reveal that their operation by handling several languages ​​is not “thinking” in those languages ​​directly. Instead use concepts that are common in several languages, so It seems to “reason” in the same language and then translate the exit to the desired language. The models cheat. That research also revealed that the models They can lie about what they are doing And they can even pretend that they are thinking when they really already have the answer to our request. One of Claude’s developers, Josh Batson, explained how “although (the model) claims to have made a calculation, our interpretability techniques do not reveal any indication that it has occurred.” How Anthropic’s deciphering works. The Anthropic method makes use of the call Cross-Layer Transcoder (CLT) that works analyzing interpretable sets instead of trying to analyze individual “neurons”. For example, these characteristics could be all conjugations of a specific verb. That allows researchers to identify complete “circuits” of neurons that tend to join in these processes. A good start. In the past OpenAi already tried to discover How their AI models thoughtbut it was not very successful. Anthropic’s work has notable limitations, and for example he does not know why the LLM pay more attention to certain parts of the Prompt than others. Even so, according to Batson “in a year or two we will know more about how these models think about what people think.” In Xataka | Universal Music has just stumbled against Anthropic by Copyright: a victory for AI technology

The art of knowing

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It may seem obvious, but doing so is very unusual and usually has an unexpectedly positive response. Jobs learned it With 12 years, Altman cost a few more years. There are those who will never learn The art of knowing. HP? I need your help With only 12 years, Steve Jobs had nothing better to do with his free time than to build his own frequency counter. However, in 1967, the necessary components to build this device were not in any store and only had access to them the large technology companies. Far from throwing the towel due to the lack of pieces, the preteen Jobs had the audacity to call the office Bill Hewlett, Hewlett-Packard co-founder (HP), and directly ask for the components. As Steve Jobs himself remembered In an interview 1994, Bill Hewlett responded to his surprised call. “I said ‘Hello, my name is Steve Jobs, I am 12 years old, I study at the institute, I am doing a frequency meter and I am missing some pieces, and I wondered if you had plenty of spare parts that I could use,’ he laughed, he gave me the pieces and offered me a summer job mounting frequencimeters in the HP mounting chain. I was in paradise,” Jobs confessed in the video. This early experience not only provided Jobs experience and technical knowledge, he also confirmed that ask for things what do you need can take you to get them. “I never found anyone who didn’t want to help me if I asked for it,” Jobs recalled. Sam Altman’s secret: ask for what he needs Another example of success is Sam Altman, which after many years in the trench of the startups, began to create OpenAi. In his Interview for Bill Gates Podcast Unconfuse meAltman shared one of his most tips important to achieve success: “Ask for whatever you want.” Altman already shared this Council in his popular Decalogue for success “How to Be Successful” he published in 2019 in his personal blog. According to the founding millionaire of Openai, “you will not normally get it, often the rejection will be painful. But when this works, it does so surprisingly well,” he said. As Altman himself explained, the secret of this method is that it implies overcoming the fear of expressing your desires openly and directly for fear of rejection or seem insistent, thus self -limiting the success options. Why work for help Although it may seem simple, the disposition of Jobs and Altman to ask for help has psychological roots in which the belief of that oneself have to solve all your problems. A study From the University of Columbia, he studied this psychological block to ask for help, and the researchers concluded that people tend to underestimate the probability (50%) that others access their direct requests for help. Is what is known as Substimation bias. According to this study, help applicants tended to focus more on the instrumental costs of aid, that is, the effort that implies helping, without taking into account The social cost of refusing -the discomfort of saying “no” -, of the person who receives the petition. Social psychologist Heidi Grant Halvorsson, in her book ‘Reinforcements: How to get people to help you ‘He explains that a application for clear, specific help and does not put the other person in an awkward position is more likely to be successful. Wayne Baker research, a professor at the University of Michigan, suggests that between 75% and 90% of the aid provided in the work environment begins with a simple request and people who ask for help at work are seen as more competent, no less, as many believe. These people improve their skills and knowledge with what they learned from their classmates. “Most people are willing to even help strangers if they ask for it. The problem is that most people do not ask for what Professor Baker said in An interview for the podcast of Harvard Business Review. Amanda Palmer, author of ‘The art of asking‘, argued in his Ted Talk That we all have the right to ask for what we need. According to the singer and writer, denying someone that right can have negative consequences in their well -being and in their interpersonal relationships. Already be face to facethrough a phone call like Steve Jobs made to Bill Hewlett, an email or a crowdfunding campaign, the key is in overcome fear of rejection and dare to ask What you need. In Xataka | In 2005, Steve Jobs revealed in Stanford the keys to his success. Two decades later, Sam Altman has traced his speech Image | AppleFlickr (Techcrunch), Unspash (Rémi Walle)

The day that United Kingdom invaded Tenerife without knowing what was inside

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Almost all the nations of the old continent have a historical figure in war. However, few as the figure of the vice courage HORATIO NELSONOfficer of the British Royal Navy (Royal Navy) whose name became omnipresent during the contests of the French Revolution and the Napoleonic Wars. To get an idea, it is considered one of the greatest naval commanders in history. Everything changed when it arrived in the Canary Islands. He fled. And without an arm. Context: Cádiz and British frustration. To understand how the plan to take the island of Tenerife began we must go back to The Battle of Cabo San Vicente In February 1797. It was a British victory over the Spanish Navy, but failed to completely weaken the enemy fleet. In fact, the Admiral John Jervisfrustrated by The resistance in Cádiz And the difficulties in maintaining an effective block, decided to divert his attention to the south. Destination: Tenerife, a key point on Spanish trade routes with America. Plus: The report that several Spanish ships They transported wealth from the American continent Towards the island he convinced Jervis that a surprise attack on the capital of Santa Cruz could result in an easy victory. Thus, he called and ordered Horathio Nelson to command an expedition with the aim of taking the city and looting his treasures. The game. Nelson’s historical figure entrusted to the mission. The commander left on July 14, 1797 with a powerful squad of 4,000 men and more than 400 cannonscomposed of its HMS toheus flagship and other vessels such as the HMS Culloden, HMS Zealous next to several frigates and auxiliary ships. The plan consisted of a night operation with landing at two strategic pointsfollowed by a final assault against the port. Defensive preparations. It happens that the general lieutenant Antonio Gutiérrez de Otero and Santayanawho had already defeated the British in two previous attempts, anticipated the attack and Fortified Santa Cruz With 91 artillery batteries, regular troops, local militiamen and French sailors captured from the Mutine frigate. Although his strength was less, With 1,700 menthe fortified position of the city gave him a decisive advantage. Nelson portrait The British attack. On July 20, Nelson sent an ultimatum demanding the surrender of the city and threatening its destruction if their demands were not met. Gutiérrez categorically rejected the proposal. Thus, in The night of July 22the British attack began with a first wave of landing on the beach of Valseco, but the strong currents and Spanish fire caused confusion among the attackers. Several boats sank, and the soldiers who managed to reach the ground were easy white for Spanish artillery. Seeing the failure, Nelson ordered the withdrawal of this first incursion. Determined to take Santa Cruz, Nelson devised A second assaultthis time led by himself. At 10:30 pm on July 24, he directed A flotilla of 700 men towards the port with the hope of surprising the defenders. However, the Spanish sentries detected the maneuver and gave the alarm. At 11:00 pm, an intense rain of cannon shots and musket shot fell on the British, who met their wet and unused ammunition. The arm. Here is one of the most notable facts of the battle due to the importance of the character. Nelson, who had just landed on the beach, was reached by A cannon shot In the right arm. Seriously injured, his stepson, Lieutenant Nisbet, made an improvised tourniquet and took him back to HMS tohels. Once on board, the surgeon He amputated his arm and the remains were thrown into the sea. Nelson, frustrated and weakened, was removed from combat. Canarian resistance. Meanwhile, the British who managed to disembark on the beach of the butchers tried to take the city, capturing the convent of the consolation. What happened? Who were surrounded and harassed by Cross fire from strengths And the roofs of the houses, where citizens joined the defense shooting at the invaders. The British managed to momentarily block access to the port, but without support from the sea and with many casualties, they realized that they were trapped. Toubridge, the British commander in command after the withdrawal of Nelson, threatened to set the entire city on fire if they were not allowed to retire with honor. Gutiérrez, experienced military, refused to give in to intimidation and increased bombing About the besieged British. The surrender. In the early hours of July 25, seeing that there was no escape, Toubridge requested a truce. Gutierrez, in a gesture that historians have always defined as of gentlemenityhe agreed to negotiate and allowed the British to retire with military honors, on condition that they did not attack Tenerife or the Canary Islands. The final figures threw a clear winner: the Spaniards lost only 30 men, while The British suffered 250 dead and 128 injured. Gutiérrez even lent ships to the British to transport their wounded soldiers back to England. Beer and cheese. In fact, in an unusual courtesy exchange in times of war, Nelson sent a letter of thanks to Gutiérrez, apparently accompanied by English beer and cheese. Gutiérrez replied by sending him Spanish wine and cheese. Despite the friendly gesture, Nelson never forgot that humiliation suffered in Tenerife, a battle that later I would describe how “The most horrible hell I’ve ever endured.” Impact and legacy. This was folded to a story that could have changed the Canary Islands flag. The Defeat in Santa Cruz de Tenerife It marked the end of British ambitions in the islands. The Royal Navy never tried to invade Tenerife, and the victory strengthened Spanish morality at a crucial moment of the United Kingdom. Since then, in Santa Cruz the battle is commemorated every year The recreation of the deed of July 25, in which actors dressed in replicas of the uniforms of the time recreate the confrontation. With a lower army in number and resources, Gutiérrez and his troops showed that strategic resistance and knowledge of the land could even impose himself on the most … Read more

a car capable of throwing a drone without us knowing very well why

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Since childhood, I feel a curious obsession with cinema cars and small screen. Kitt –The fantastic car– I don’t seem so science fiction anymore if we consider that we already have cars that are controlled with the voicebut the Aston Martin by James Bond They keep hallucinating. Not so much for the beauty of the different models that we have seen over the years, but for the amount of gadgets they incorporate, as well as the gates that open to launch something or show a weapon. Like the car that tells us, that of deploying a gadget from the car ceases to be fiction because Byd has just presented something, as little, curious: a line of cars that are capable of transporting and displaying a drone. One of DJI, to be more concrete. We have already seen some Chinese cars who are betting on crazy ideas that combine cars and dronesbut what Byd has just presented is something much more tangible. The big question is … What do we want to throw a drone from the car? Shuttle car Lingyuan We are going to start with what the company has presented. In a releaseByd has presented Lingyuan, a system designed to achieve a total integration of drone into the vehicle. The system is like a ceiling chest that has location and guidance sensors, as well as a gate that opens and from which drone can deploy. Don’t tell me it’s not movie. This “heliport” can be in that kind of ceiling chest, but in larger vehicles the company comments that it can be integrated directly into the upper part of the vehicle, which, we assume, would compromise somewhat less the aerodynamics of it. The system has been designed so that the height of the vehicle does not exceed 2.05 meters and, for the moment, there are two versions. On the one hand, Lingyuan Battery Swap Edition for Yangwang models, byd’s luxury brand. This pack equips the DJI Mavic 3 And it is the highest range option. For denza and byd cars, the name is Lingyuan Fast Charging Edition that incorporates a DJI Air 3s. Wang Chuanfu, president of Byd, commented that “the collaboration between Byd and DJI goes far beyond the simple placement of a drone in a car. Instead, we have developed the entire integration system from scratch, designing and developing it to achieve a perfect fusion between the vehicle and drone. This advance offers a synergy in which the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. ” These drones They can take off with the car in progress At a speed of up to 25 km/Hy we can order that the vehicle follow at a speed of up to 54 km/h. On the other hand, they also load at the station, being able to recover from 20% to 80% in half an hour. I recreate and … anything else? The goal of ByD is that this movement is a first step to boost the industrialization and large -scale adoption of intelligent drone systems in cars, but as we said some paragraphs ago, the big question is why we would want something like that. In the statement, everything focuses on creativity. The arch in which the drone goes has a wide angle camera with 4K resolution that can record next to the drone camera to have a double perspective and the Lingyuan application has a tool to edit those videos with algorithms that automate the process if we want it and a repertoire of 30 templates. The brand wants us to record “our vehicle adventures” with a stupid ease. However, I can think of two more interesting and everyday uses. If we go on an adventure on roads that we do not know, stop and launch the drone can be great to explore the area. And, if it were a lighter drone or could fly in the city, it seems to me a tremendous function to look for parking. Of course, for now, this technology is only available in Continental China and the brand has not spoken about the launch of the platform in other countries. Images | Byd In Xataka | The first flying electric car is already here (the only problem is that it is neither a car nor fly)

Every day thousands of people make fun without knowing about an empire when they have breakfast. THE RESPONSIBLE: THE COUPASAN

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If something has demonstrated over the centuries, gastronomy is that kitchens serve more than elaborate tasty dishes. In the heat of their stoves they usually curdle culinary traditions, legends and mythslike the one that explains that every time we have breakfast a crucisan we are actually participating in a war. Because? Because with that seemingly innocent gesture we make fun of the defeat of one of the empires more influential of history. We explain ourselves. Cruasanos and wars? Yes. The relationship may sound a bit strange, but it comes with Google to find dozens of Blogsforums, magazines and Diaries that tell the same story: how the cross was created to commemorate the defeat of the Ottoman in Vienna at the end of the 17th century. To be more precise, the frustrated siege of the city by the great vizier Kara Mustafa which resulted in Kahlenberg battle and marked the beginning of the Ottoman decline in Europe. A great victory, a great cake to celebrate it. An epic story. There are war deeds that inspire poems, songs, operas, movies, paintings, novels; But … a cake? Why commemorate the siege of a city with a bun that thousands of people have breakfast throughout the world? The answer is quite simple: The legend He says that the Viennese pastries played a key role in the Ottoman defeat of 1683, so the guild wanted to celebrate it as best knew, kneading and baking mass. Of plots and noctámbulos. The story is of course worthy of the great romantic chronicles. Desperate to take Vienna, around 1683 the Ottomans began to think about ways to mock the fortification of the city. Some versions They say they decided to do so by excavating an underground gallery. Others, which set out to open tunnels to Place mines. In any case, the legend tells that, to dodge the vigilance of the Viennese, the Ottomans worked at night, among Quinqués and the moonlight, while their enemies slept. What the Muslims did not tell is that not all the residents of Vienna got into bed at night. There was a guild who worked every day from the sunset to dawn and ended up listening to the noise that the soldiers made with their peaks and shovels, which allowed him to alert the authorities and repel the enemy attack. What noctámbulos guild was that? Correct: The bakers. And the ‘Larousse’ of 1938 arrived. That this romantic dyes has reached us is explained for two reasons: centuries of oral tradition and the pen of the French chef Posper Montagnéwho in 1938 published an iconic work of universal cuisine, the ‘Larousse Gastronomique’. In addition to explaining how the crossings are elaborated, in its pages the scholar recounts the origin of the cake, echoing a version similar to the Viennese legend of the seventeenth century. In the work (at least in which it can Consult online) Montagné tells a similar story, although he places the plot during The Buddha site In 1686, not in the siege of Vienna of 1683. “The Turks besieged the city and to reach their hearts they excavated underground galleries. Some bakers, who worked at night, heard the noise made by the Turks and gave the alarm,” He recounts. But … why is it a mockery? Simple. Because when creating their new commemorative cake the Viennese pastries noticed A symbol From Islam: The growing moon. It is also explained by Montágne’s encyclopedia: “To reward the bakers who had saved the city, they were given the privilege of making a special cake that, in memory of the emblem that decorated the Ottoman flag, had to be shaped like a crescent,” duck The gastronomic encyclopedia. In summary: the new cake served to celebrate the Christian resistance and endurance of the city … and incidentally mocked the Ottoman forces. As Collect National Geographicwhen a Vienne devour one of those tasty cakes that emulated a moon really “ate the Turks.” The story was curious. The story, powerful. And for more inri it appeared ratified in a work of the prestige of the ‘Larousse Gastronomique’. So what was expected to be expected: the myth extended, gained strength and made the crosss become more than simple pastry. In their own way, they became a symbol. But is it true? The million dollar question. If gastronomy is good (in addition to satisfying palates), it is to create Myths and traditions of rigor more than questionable. Italian cuisine, Spanish either Japanese (To name only three examples) leave a few examples. And the Viennese legend of the Cruasan seems to be only that: a legend of truthfulness at least difficult to check. With you, the Kipferl. The story tells that the city’s bosoms elaborated two commemorative breads of the victory: the Kaiseremmela kind of “imperial panecillo”; and Kipferlwith a crescent -shaped. That this is the origin of what we understand today is however more than questionable, Remember From the Institute of Culinary Education (ICE). “He Kipferla baked panecillo from a dough of wheat with yeast, is common in central Europe, ” Clarifies the institution in his blog, in which he remembers that there are records that suggest that he Kipferl He ate already in the thirteenth century. Moreover, there are those who believe that their origins are older and more sweet in a similar way they can be seen in Magreb (Tchareke) or Türkiye itself, where the Ay çöreği. History and stories. “It’s almost certain that these stories are false,” assures Austrian chef Jürgen David. In fact they can be found Other stories that also relate the invention of the Capuchino with the Ottoman siege of Vienna. The popular Dunkin breakfast chain It echoes On its website for the legend that maintains that the famous coffee, with its characteristic color (similar to the habit of the Capuchin friars) it was first served in Vienna after its citizens found the sacks of coffee that the Ottoman had left behind. If true, the breakfast with which thousands of Europeans start their … Read more

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