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Japan believes to have the largest deposit of rare earths hidden on a tiny island. And it is already date to extract them

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The Rare earth They are an element of great economic and geopolitical value and China stands as the greatest power. To its Japanese neighbors He didn’t make any grace have to depend on them and, after an exhaustive search, a year ago they found the treasure: A huge site of rare earths at the bottom of the ocean. Japan has already set date to start extracting them. January 2026. It is the date on which Japan will begin with the first test extraction, according to Nikkei Asia. They expected to start this year, but the delivery of the necessary duct to reach the deposit did not reach last May and delayed the project for a year. The duct, manufactured in the United Kingdom, has cost 12,000 million yen (about 71 million euros) and will allow them to reach a depth of 5,500 meters. The Chikyu. The Japanese Marine-Terrestrial Science and Technology Agency or JAMSTECfor its acronym in English, will use the chiichyu, the name received by the Japanese drilling boat with which these valuable minerals will extract. In 2022 they already did a test at 2,500 meters deep In front of the coast of the Ibaraki Prefecture, but the challenge they face now is to drill more than double deep: 5,500 meters. If they get it, it would be the first time that rare earths are extracted to so much depth. In the first phase, Chikyu will extract 35 tons of mud. It is estimated that a ton of mud contains about 2 kilos of rare earths, so, in the best case, we could be talking about 70 kilos of rare earths. A key discovery. As we said, Japan found the site almost a year ago in front of the island of Minami-Torishima, located about 1,900 kilometers southeast of Tokyo. The site is located in the exclusive economic zone of Japan, so their extraction corresponds to them. Among the minerals it contains, one of the most abundant would be gadolinio, used in the nuclear industry, and the disposium, used mainly in magnets for electric vehicles. It would also be rich in manganese, cobalt and nickel nodules, key components in the creation of batteries. The amount is not clear and is decisive. At first there was talk of a site of 16 million tons, which would place Japan in third place behind China (44 million) and Brazil (21 million). However, a Analysis of the University of Tokyo He pointed to the loot would be much more juicy: 230 million tons. If confirmed, Japan would overcome China and be placed as the largest reserve of rare earths in the world. Independence. Japan’s efforts to find rare earth date back to 2022 and had a clear goal: to be independent. Currently, Japan depends on imports to meet their needs of rare metals, with 60% of them from China. The Japanese government invested 6,000 million yen (about 42 million euros) in the first extractions and have made it a priority since then. Friction. As we said, China currently has the largest reserve of rare earth and that gives it A huge power. Just a few weeks ago something unusual happened: A combat fleet, headed by two Chinese aircraft carriershe entered the Japanese ZEE near the island of Minamitori. Japan He did not confirm If he presented a formal protest and just declared that he had sent “the appropriate message.” It is not the first time that China enters the Japanese area, nor are the friction between the two countries, But it is certainly a somewhat controversial maneuver given the economic importance of the area. Image | TNFSA In Xataka | Yonaguni’s Japanese island was known for its beauty and Bad Bunny. Now it is a military strength because of Taiwan

Japan looks for the person who built a road on the largest lake in the country. Does not lead anywhere

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Japan It usually fascinates by The unknown and sometimes inexplicable From our western culture (also It happens to them with us). In a country where many words They don’t even have a translation To our language (or They need a phrase), there are countless situations that cause us curiosity. Then there is another set of stories that not only fascinate us, but also. This is one of them, and it started when someone saw something certain. The road. We are in one of the most famous places in the Japanese country. Located in the center-west of the island of Honshu, in the prefecture of Shiga, northwest of Kyoto, is the monumental Biwa Lakethe most extensive in Japan occupying an area of ​​670 square kilometers. Well, the country lives immersed in a mystery that hardly has a logical explanation: someone has built without permission A road on the lake. And it does not carry anywhere. Lake Biwa from space The Chivatazo. The story began last year, when the Anonymous report He arrived at the Civil Engineering offices of the city of Takashima, Shiga Prefecture. This document reported a strange sighting in Biwa. Someone had built what seemed like a road on the largest lake in Japan. An investigation not only verified the track, but also the measures of that mysterious construction. It was a road about 70 meters long and 3 meters wide made of compacted ground that connected two geographical accidents in the Delta del Río Ado. In addition, you could see tire footprints, which clearly indicates some type of use. Google Maps. The satellite tools like Google Maps gave another track of the antiquity of the road. The satellite shots taken three years ago showed nothing similar to a embankment or road, nor of sediments that indicated some kind of natural formation, and Shiga’s prefecture claimed that “until May last year, the road nobody had confirmed the road.” Location of the “road” on Google Maps Visible. From Google Maps Today it is appreciated that the road has suffered considerable wear, probably due to the water rise. In fact, the area close to the site in question is a wetland that even the locals can access. Takashima residents have no idea, since no one ever goes to that area, “there is nothing to do except that hornets or wild boars,” The premises point out. Television travels. The ball became bigger. If nothing and no one used to approach the surroundings of the construction, who and why the hell did such a work? History has taken such a traction that up there local televisions have been displaced. One of the reporters indicated that when he arrived, he observed that the poor condition had made several areas, which betrayed pieces “that looked like asphalt, iron and concrete.” The last track. After the initial notice, the Department of Civil Engineering reported on the road to the Police. Three days later, the authorities received a call from an anonymous person who told them that he had been the author, and that he had piled up land to make the way. The Civil Engineering Department ordered the person to return the area to their original state. A mystery without logic. If you have come here it is possible that you want to know the reason or reason that led whoever was going to build a road on the most extensive lake in Japan. We talk about a work of days and a lot of work for a single person, one who, apparently, makes no sense. That data Police have not given itand it is only known that there is an accusation for unauthorized development, although the person after the call has not appeared so far. Meanwhile, a year later since the Prefecture instructed those who filled the area to restore it to its original state, but the path that leads to nowhere is still there. Image | A-GIâuYomiuri TV, GLCF In Xataka | The city where it is most snow in the world is in Japan and lives buried under a white mantle: this is Aomori In Xataka | The cities of Japan have begun a fierce struggle to lift their economy. THE KEY RECIPE: Ramen *An earlier version of this article was published in July 2024

This is how the ‘Paypal Mafia’ became the largest quarry of Tech millionaires in our era. That and much more in 1×13 crossover

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Elon Musk was already obsessed with the letter X a long time ago. Her particular fixation with her has a lot to do with nostalgia And with a 1999 waitressbut the truth is that this letter was already the germ of something very big. In fact, in March 1999 We had a first version of X.com. It was very different, and Musk’s goal was not to change Twitter’s name – which did not exist at that time – but to create a financial startup. The funny thing is that the offices of X.com were glued to those of Confinity, the company co -founded by Peter Thiel with a similar objective. After a while competing, both decided that it was best to join forces, and from that alliance PayPal was born. That at first he did not curb, but that he ended up doing it with some “thugs” techniques and with the work of one of the teams with the greatest talent in history. Those boys, yes, soon realized that they wanted to be their own bosses. When Ebay bought PayPal in 2002the mission, leadership and objectives no longer convinced those engineers. So they decided to ride it on their own. AND This is how the famous “Paypal Mafia” was borna group of entrepreneurs who fled from PayPal with counting and sound money and who used it to found their own projects. Thiel set up his Founders Fund and Palantir, Elon Musk launched Tesla or Spacex, and other employees ended up joining each other or founding their own mega projects: YouTube, LinkedIn or Yelp are among them. The conclusion: Paypal was the germ of an entire Internet revolutionbecause these services began to change our conception of the network of networks. That is the central theme of Crossover 1×13an episode that is always led by Jaume Lahoz and Carlos Santa Engracia and that brings a few fun sections. We have images generated by the converted into videos and “plausible technological lies” that will surely generate debate. We hope you enjoy it! On YouTube | Crossover

Microsoft is one of the world’s largest companies. He has had to abrive his workers because they didn’t even use Copilot

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In case it was not enough pressure for Microsoft employees, after announcing the dismissal Now he has decided to take a radical turn in his internal strategy and requires his employees to use tools for In your workflow. What was only a recommendation before, now it has become a demand in the toughest line of the “Ai Fluency” that has already been established in companies Like Duolingo, or Canva. According to published Business Insiderthis change responds to the imperative need for Microsoft to accelerate the adoption of AI among its own template, especially considering that only a few They used their github co -ilot. At the blacksmith’s house, stick knife. AI is no longer optional. Microsoft’s address has made it clear that “the use of artificial intelligence is no longer optional.” As published by the American media, Julia LiusonPresident of the Microsoft developer division, sent a forceful email to Microsoft managers: “AI is now a fundamental part of our way of working. Just like collaboration, data -based thinking and effective communication, the use of AI is no longer optional: it is essential for all roles and all levels.” This message implies that all employees, regardless of their position, must carry out literacy in AI and incorporate artificial intelligence into their workflows with the objective of Automate bureaucratic tasks or repetitive processes. Do not use it penalizes. To encourage their use, Microsoft managers received the order to incorporate the knowledge and use of AI among the factors to assess when evaluating their performance. “(AI) It should be part of their holistic reflections on the performance and impact of each individual, “Liuson instructed to those responsible for team. Although there is still no unique metric in all departments, some teams are already assessing establishing concrete ways of measuring this aspect in the next annual performance reviews. The enemy at home. This change seeks to solve what Microsoft considers that Github Copilot’s too slow adoption among its own workers. The pressure to adopt the AI ​​not only comes from within. Satya Nadella’s firm faces hard competition between models of programming assistanceas cursor or Replitwhich are winning growing in number of users, to the point of overcoming it in some segments of use. Citing a Barclays report, the American media says that “cursor would have already overcome Copilot in a key segment of the development market.” Technology currently allows its employees to use external AI tools provided they meet certain security requirements, which shows that not even in its Github Copilot bosom has the monopoly. Business Carambolas. Microsoft’s alliance with Openai is about to give a new fruit, since Sam Altman’s company is tantling the purchase of Windsurfmain cursor rival in the Nic of AI agents for programming assistance. Since Microsoft has an agreement with the Chatgpt creator, this acquisition would give indirect access to the intellectual property of Windsurfwhich would help you improve co -ilot performance. With this New movement Nadella’s masterful, Microsoft would have access to the heart of its main rival, something does not go unnoticed for Windsurf and OpenAi managers. In Xataka | Microsoft fired him after 23 years but continues to go to the office: “I feel responsible for my team and my clients” Image | Unspash (Salah Darwish, Tai Bui)

His response was the largest underground nuclear base on the planet

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Talking about the cold war is talking about espionage, secret bases, Advanced weapons to win the opponent in a potential armed conflict and, above all, the Atomic Arsenal Explosion And constant fear of Nuclear Apocalypse. And this implies talking about Russia and the US as protagonists, leaving us in the inkwell to other actors in the conflict. China was another proper name during the Cold War, getting fully into the nuclear race. And they did it big. With the world’s largest nuclear military plant, the mysterious nuclear military plant 816. Bad crumbs with the USSR. The cold war was a tremendously complicated conflict that was played three bands part of time. The US and the USSR were two of the legs, but China entered Liza when the Sino-Soviet conflict. Simplifying history, the Soviet Union And China competed for being the champions of communism and, at a time of 1969, the Soviet Union even considered bombing China with nuclear bombs, including Beijing. However, United States “intervened“, Turning the conflict and relations with China. The position of both approached the subsequent years, but before that, and with a China smelling that the USSR could threaten with its nuclear arsenal, began to build the Nuclear Military Plant 816. Great Nuclear Wall. Zhou enlaiChinese prime minister at that time, he responded to the Sino-Soviet rupture giving the Output gun to a military base in the Chongqing region that would be much more than a bunker: it would become the Nuclear underground installation most important in the country. The goal? Produce plutonium that could be installed in arms, creating nuclear missiles without Soviet help. The works began in 1966 and in process more than 60,000 soldiers of the popular liberation army participated. The objective of the installation was that he was armored against missile attacks, but also against earthquakes of magnitude 8. In addition, he had a great natural wall around him: the Jinzi mountain and his granite. Colossal. Secretism was a constant when building the complex. This is something common and logical in this type of facilities, reaching the extreme that the workers of the workers did not know what their relatives were working or where. In the official records it is indicated that 76 people died during some works that extended over 17 years, but there are sources They point out that the figure would be much greater. Apart, the nuclear military plant 816 has an area of ​​more than 104,000 m² and is the largest tunnel system excavated by the human being. Its 130 galleries total more than 20 kilometers long over 18 United Artificial Cuevas, has more than 13 levels and the height to the deepest point is almost 80 meters, similar to a 25 -story building. In addition, to go from some sites to others inside the plant, cars that circulated on underground roads could be used. That is … it’s huge The control table The reactor room Reverse. During the years of construction, China made Advances in its nuclear program. Although it has been more recent when they officially reached The 500 headsthe first public nuclear test in the country was in 1964, but the complex of the 816 Pedish served little. The reason? After 17 years building that colossal cavernary system and with the advances at 85%, they decided to cancel it. The changes in international relations and the dimensioning tension of the cold war led to a brake on the project. The reactor was never operational and the program was classified in 1984. In 2002, however, it came to light and we could know all these details, even knowing that part of the plant was recycled to become In a fertilizer factory. Tourists, welcome. But with all that excavated, it would be nonsense to have it closed to lime and song. Something like that must have thought of authorities, since, in 2010, they decided open part of the base to the public. Thanks to this we can see photographs like those that accompany these lines and know How would the conditions of a base destined to manufacture nuclear missiles in China 60 years ago. And, in addition to serving as a museum, it is a memorial for the human sacrifices of those who participated in the project, they were official … or those that do not appear in the records. Images | 重庆轨交 18, Iswzo, Lastrik, Pierre Marshall In Xataka | Satellite images leave no doubt: the US has restored the base of the Pacific that launched atomic bombardment over Japan

China has commissioned the largest battery of all its electricity network to an unexpected company: Tesla

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China has no problem parking Commercial tensions with the United States If it is for the benefit of the country. And the country needs Tesla for an increasingly pressing task: stabilize a network with more and more renewable participation. The largest battery in the largest network. China has selected Tesla to develop what will be the largest energy storage station at network scale throughout the country, surpassing the 1 GWh battery park in Shandong. The American giant He signed an agreement with the local government of Shanghai for 4,000 million yuan, 557 million dollars, to lift a gigantic station that can actively participate in the spot electricity market. China has the largest electricity grid and a renewable energy generation capacity in constant and massive growth. The Tesla battery station You can buy and store energy When demand and price are low, and then sell it to the network during consumption peaks, helping to balance supply and demand, and improving the general stability of the system. The business is in the megapacks. The Energy Division of Tesla does not stop growing, to the point of become a fundamental pillar of the company. The project engine is megapacks, Large storage units in 3.9 MWh batteries which can be used to stabilize the electricity grid and avoid supply cuts. It is no accident that the most ambitious battery station in China will be built in Shanghai. Just four months ago, Tesla launched a new Megapacks factory in the Lin-Gang area, where is also its car factory “Gigafactory Shanghai”. The new “Megafactory” is the first plant of this type out of the United States, and although it has barely been operational since February, it has already produced more than 100 megapacks. Tesla gets into the patio of Catl and Byd. They are “only business”, but the movement is still striking considering that Tesla is competing with Catl and Bydthe two Chinese giants who take 54% of the world battery market. Another way to see it is that China needs many batteries By the end of the year, the government expects to reach 40 GW of storage. But taking into account that the country installs half of the entire new capacity for renewables (329 GW in 2024), by the time the Tesla battery station in Shanghai enters service, the goal will have continued to rise. And Tesla will be just one of the puzzle pieces. Image | Tesla In Xataka | China manufactures more batteries than anyone. The problem: they accumulate next to the solar panels without storing energy

The filtration of 16,000 million passwords would be the largest in history. If it weren’t because it’s a gigantic refrito

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A team of CYBERNEWS researchers He has discovered A large library with 16,000 million filtered passwords. That would be long the theft of credentials in history, but it has not been. That library is actually a compilation of 30 large sets of data already filtered in the past. Should I reassure us “just” that? Enough, but not quite. It is not a new massive theft of data. Cybernews researchers do not show their sources, but they point out that this is in essence a compilation of “supermassive data sets containing billions of credentials.” In those leaks – ancient, but it is not known how much – data appears that according to Cybernews come from Google, Facebook or Apple users. Again, without offering evidence of it. They explain that none of these data sets had been discovered before, except for one with 184 million credentials that They mentioned in Wired At the end of May. But it is still dangerous. The problem of a compilation like this is that it can serve as a great starting point for all types of cyber attacks. It is very likely that in that large database there will be a significant amount of duplicate credentials. No one has stolen data from Google, Facebook or Apple (recently). Although media such as cybernews or forbes talk that there are credentials of these platforms, again if any will be belonging to old data theft – which Of course Yeah There has been-. There have been no robberies (much less massive) of credentials in these companies recently, and if there were them, they should have made a communication responsible for the incidents – in the US the US is used FORM 8-K OF THE SEC– They can affect their businesses. Should I be worried? Relatively. It must be aware that these data theft give access to cybercriminals to millions of credentials (user and password) in all types of services, and they can gain access to our accounts in those services thanks to them and then attack them or use them as the basis of other attacks. But this is true every day, not only when a new security filtration appears. Have Ien Pwned is a useful service that allows us to enter an email address to check it with the databases of previous data theft. A curiosity here: the number of accounts hacked on this platform is almost 15,000 million, very similar to the one indicated in Cybernews. Check if you have hacked you. There has been a simple way to check if our email and password has leaked in any of these data theft. THE SERVICE HAVE I BEEN PWNED allows us Do it quicklyand here we have discovered something interesting: the database with which this platform works has almost 15,000 million accounts hacked in its registry. Almost the same number they are talking about in Cybernews, as if their great library was in essence the same one that has this service created by Troy Hunt cybersecurity expert. And acts accordingly. When introducing your email, services may appear in which your account may have been compromised. What you should do in case this happens is to change your password as soon as possible in those services, and, if possible, strengthen the security of that password. There are several methods to do so: you can create a strong passworduse a Password manageruse the two -step authentication “Specially recommended,” or even make the leap to the passkeys If the service allows it. Be careful out there. Those measures that we talk about should not only be applied if we realize that something has happened, but before it happens. It is better to prevent than healing, and it is worth reviewing the safety of our accounts on the Internet, especially the most sensitive. The mail (Gmail, for example) is especially delicate, since it is usually used as a password rescue method in many other services. It is a good idea here to go to the tools that allow verifying the security status of our accounts to reinforce it if possible. Google, for example, Maintain a control panel which we can access at all times to configure what is necessary and Avoid scares after. In Xataka | The old dream of the cybersecurity of the future has just come true: Microsoft corner finally the passwords

The world’s largest cars laundry empire

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80 years ago, German businessman Joseph Enning set up a business he discovered after spending a year studying in the United States. A car laundry. That tunnel-car-wash that saw in New York had only a conveyor belt, a couple of groups of brushes and a blower to dry the cars. In 1964, he decided to inaugurate the first car wash under the name of MRW-Uuto-Service GmbH. And from there, the rest is history. At that time, Europe had nothing similar. The laundries were completely manual, scarce and expensive. It imported a concept that the United States had been using since the 1950s and, for practically 20 years operating in practically alone, it had hardly any competition. Since then, MR.Wash has opened more than 30 locations in Germany, and Clean more than 8 million cars a year. They are numbers that compete with the laundries installed in the gas stations of the main fuel distributors. The German group is currently considered as the largest automatic laundry operator by center volume (How many cars washed a single center per day), attending up to 5,000 cars per day, 300 every hour with about 100 workers per center. For more context it is convenient to know that in Spain, One of Norauto’s longest tunnels (50 meters)accompanied by a total of 24 boxes, manages to make about 30,000 washes per year. To achieve this volume of daily washes, the company needs unusual laundry. Some of them, Like the open in Bonn in 2021They have a total of three floors and carry a cost of 20 million euros at their opening. An area of ​​5,800 square meters in which plants construction is key to taking advantage of spaces. In Spain, one of Norauto’s longest tunnels (50 meters), accompanied by a total of 24 boxes, achieves about 30,000 washes per year. A volume of washing remarkably lower than that of a single MR.Wash center. There is also nothing similar in Europe or outside it: the maximum capacity usually is around 1,000 daily washes. This ends up translating into an annual turnover, with 2023 figures, 140 million euros only in washes. To which we must add the adjacent service stations of the group itself (110 million) and another 40 for its oil change services. The business and customer service model goes far beyond car washing. In the facilities there is cafeteria to wait while they wash in the car There is library service (in this case, free) In addition to automated washing services, facilities include manual washing boxes Basic maintenance services are offered, such as oil changes If you wonder how much it costs to wash the car in such a place, the answer is … it depends. The basic programs start from 12 euros, which include interior washing up to 40 euros, and the most premium washing rises to 75 euros including tires, shine and waxed. As a curiosity, in some of the MR.Wash centers, the manager himself manually ends the service if the client is not satisfied. Image | MR.Carwash

‘Mindseye’ is the largest fiasco that the industry remembers from ‘Cyberpunk 2077’. And a notice of what is not going well in video games

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‘Mindseye’ had lifted considerable expectations, especially for the identity of its responsible, the archner of the saga ‘GTA’ Leslie Benzies. However, the launch has been a disaster of such size that Sony has decided to open the returns from the purchase amount In the PlayStation Store to the players who wish. It is inevitable to think, at this point, in a recent fiasco comparable: ‘Cyberpunk 2077’. A disaster From innumerable technical problemsunusual in a product of this size, to a development well below the expected, ‘Mindseye’ has defrauded all expectations, to the point that it already has More than 1300 assessments in Steampractically all negative. In Metacritic ABISMAL TREATERS 2.9 OF USERS AND HAVE NOT HAVE Note from Professionals, since the company did not give it to the press To play it before launch (traditionally, a sign that something is going wrong.) expectations have played against them: comparisons with ‘GTA VI’ during the promotion were continuous, and Benzies could not moderate them to avoid disappointments. For memes. Bugs and glitches are being innumerable And, of course, players They are registering them and uploading to social networks: Flying NPCS or that explode in meaningless polygons, faces of faces and physical physical ones … there are falls from Frames and Crasheos Continuous, even in console. And as a icing, the campaign is very scarce: Around 20 hoursand with a development that is apparently repetitive and with very little interest. While there are patches, there is hope. Of course, Build to Rocket Boy, the signatory study of ‘Mindseye’, has done everything he could to cushion the impact: recognize the problems and promise that he will fix them in A series of patches To improve performance (at least, get out of 40 fps) and fix bugs. Although for now, he is only doing it on PC. Again, ‘Cyberpunk 2077’ comes to the memory of the players, but perhaps, maintaining hope, it does so in the opposite direction: a game that seemed insurmountable became, patch patch, patch, patch, In the title that should have been departure. Of course, not the ideal route, but a good proof that everything has arrangement. ‘Mindseye’ is a new notice for navigators about the many fractures that plague the industry today. It is almost a catalog of the problems that have ended up deriving in a business that allows broken games like this to see the light. Some of those failures could be: He Hype and marketing as a guarantee: The reputation of Benzies and his curriculum as part of the ‘GTA’ franchise seemed enough to guarantee a good result, but possibly became a development with unrealistic goals. The worst audience in the world: Yes, of course players have their part of guilt. Its avidity for playing every month at the best game of the year (or the decade) has generated some dynamics of toxic creativity in the studies, which are forced to promise above their possibilities to attract the attention of a fandom stunned by excess signals. Ambition that does not accompany the real possibilities: There is currently only a video game creator capable of extending checks that your talent can pay, and it is Kojima. And he doesn’t always get it. Therefore, that a project standing by a team without a much more solid promising trajectory, in a Sandbox, Something as ambitious as “Roblox type mechanics” You should jump alarms instead of guaranteeing echo in the press. The tyranny of the launch dates: It is not the first time that a game goes on sale without ending: the launch dates should be realistic and, above all, the studies would have to have the freedom to delay the launch of a game if it is not finished one hundred percent. They are just some details that have defined the debacle of ‘Mindseye’, but that reveal much more serious problems than a half -game. If any utility has this failed launch at this point is to function as a warning mechanism for an industry that works more and more as a predestined hype machinery. A bubble that, if it aspires to conservation, has to take care to survive. Header | Io interactive

The largest map of the universe is now available thanks to James Webb. And it can be explored as if it were Google Maps

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Astronomers They were convinced that the primitive universe was a dark place. That the galaxies took to appear after the Big Bang. But the new largest and most deep map of the universe, which extends until 13.5 billion years ago thanks to the observations of the James Webb space telescope, has just dynamited this idea. You can explore it yourself. Is called Cosmos-Weband it is not just a mosaic of images. It is a detailed catalog of almost 800,000 galaxies that covers 98% of the entire history of the universe in a specific region of heaven, thanks to the extraordinary sensitivity of the Webb Observatory. This gigantic panoramic is the result of More than 255 hours of observations of the NASA space telescope, ESA and the CSA, pointing to a region with very few stars or clouds of gas that block their vision towards the confines of the cosmos. The result is the largest contiguous image captured by the Webb to date, with more than 10,000 individual exhibitions. Comparisons are hateful. One way to understand the scale of this map is comparing it to the famous “Ultra -Profundo del Hubble”, the most detailed image of the universe in visible light. If we had a printed copy of the hubble ultraprophound field on a sheet of paper, Cosmos-Web would be a mural of almost 4 by 4 meters with the same depth. The Webb telescope observes wavelengths other than those of the Hubble, those of the nearby infrared and the middle infrared, but its instruments are so sensitive that you can see those 800,000 galaxies over 13.5 billion years in a region equivalent to three moons full in the night sky. Too much light, too soon. The great surprise of these images is not their depth, something for which the webb was designedbut what they reveal from the primitive universe. Astronomers believed that there would barely galaxies in the first 500 million years of the universe were incredibly rare, but there are approximately 10 times more galaxies than expected. “Since the James Webb space telescope went on, we have been wondering if your data They break the cosmological model“, admits Caitlin Casey, leader of the Cosmos-Web project.” The primitive universe only had about 400 million years to form one billion solar masses in stars. We just don’t know how it could happen. “ The role of Spain and open science. This monumental effort would not have been possible without a globa collaboration. And this is where Spain plays a role from the Institute of Astrophysics of the Canary Islands (IAC), which applied neural networks for the morphological classification of more than half a million catalog galaxies, an essential task to understand its evolution. But Cosmos-Web would not have been possible without the work of volunteers who, from their homes, helped for two years to process the raw data and correct artifacts of the Webb Telescope. Similarly, now anyone can explore the map and make their own discoveries. Cosmos-Web will continue to expand with new spectroscopic observations to analyze the internal chemistry of the most interesting galaxies. The main objectives are the “era of reion” (when the light of the first stars cleared the cosmic fog), the evolution of mass galaxies and how dark matter is related to visible matter. Image | Cosmos-Web In Xataka | The Webb Space Telescope observed some small red points almost as old as the Big Bang. They should not exist

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