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Taylor Swift has done it again: he is accustomed to Shake the ticket offices with premieres that They go for free and that move on the tightrope between the documentary for fans and the unpublished material, but the fact is that he has crowned the box office in a weekend without memorable premieres. But still Swift’s thing is a phenomenon and predicts a reorientation of the box office to a type of film other than the traditional. The launch of a star. The film is’ The Official Release Party of a Showgirl “, the film that accompanies the new star album, ‘The Life of a Showgirl’, and has raised 33 million in the North American market and another 13 in the rest of the world. The film has been distributed independently as it already did with ‘The Eras Tour’, reaching an agreement with AMC and Variance (a distribution company for service), with which it has reached more of 3,700 rooms. More records. Any vazaña is Swift: never before any artist had placed in his first weekend an album and his accompaniment film in the number one of their respective lists. As Deadline remembersnor did he get it Prince With ‘Purple Rain’ (the soundtrack reached number 3), or Whitney Houston with ‘The bodyguard’ (the film stayed in 2). In addition, ‘The Life of A Showgirl’ has been the second best -selling album in history in its first weekend since digital sales are counted, with 2.7 million physical and digital copies added. No publi. The most curious thing about this success is that the film has barely had a promotion: there have been no trailers or signs in cinemas. Only street advertisements, website and social media machinery of Swift, the envy of many Majors: Direct access to the TLS of more than five hundred million users. One more example of the promotional muscle of the Fandom and the networks when turning a premiere into a success. Towards eventization. This success only confirms, beyond the overwhelming fame that Taylor Swift enjoys, that the cinema is eventizing, that is, that the great premieres are taking the form of events that go beyond the pure footage of the film, something that has almost reserved for the traditional films that circulate in streaming. The films event are premieres designed to live in the room: giant screens, immersive sound and special functions that justify a higher price and a social assistance ritual. Premium experience. While the assistance figures of film rooms are resent with continuous falls (the global collection figure 10% fell in 2024 With respect to 2023, and the change in consumption habits and the impact of strikes seem to be The great responsible), The phenomenon ‘Barbenheimer‘A couple of years ago it seems to have marked a way to consider the premieres that since then you want to repeat. Immersive experiences, films that “must be seen” in cinemas (the last phenomena in that sense were ‘WICKED‘ and ‘A Minecraft movie ‘), Sing-Along versions … The film industry crawls in search of new spectators. Paradoxically, artists completely outside Hollywood seem to have the keys to provide an oxygen ball. In Xataka | Taylor Swift has already released 34 editions from his latest album. OBJECTIVE: Never abandon success lists

In 1896 a man decided to lead to the reckless speed of 13 km/h. And received the first fine in history

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Speed ​​fines in Spain vary from 100 at 600 euros. The table in which the economic amount is collected also serves if the driver will also be punished with the subtraction of driving card points. In the best case, the sanction It does not entail the subtraction of points, while in the worst you can detract a maximum of six. All this information can be consulted in your own DGT website or in the Traffic LawMotor vehicles and road safety. And it is useful, according to data from Associated European motoriststwo out of three fines that are imposed in Spain are motivated by speeding. But although speeding fines look like something modern, what is necessary to invest most sophisticated media To register the infraction and judicially demonstrate the breakdown of the norms, its history begins before The first car in Spain will enroll. The first fine of history for speeding Fines for committing some kind of Flying infraction They have a lot of history. Some suggest that the first punishment related to a traffic infraction was recorded in Egypt more than 2,800 years ago, after a drunk driver run over a girl and collided with a statue. However, the basis of this information is, at least, doubtful. But what is a general consensus is in the registration of the first penalty for speeding. In fact, those responsible for Guinness Record They make it record as the early infraction of this type. And they put date: January 28, 1896. The fine also has a name, surname and place of origin. Specifically, the offender was Walter Arnold who in the United Kingdom, and fully aware of what was played, promoted one of the first cars built by Karl Benz until the devilish speed of 13 km/h. Arnold exceeded the streets of Paddock Wood at full speed, in Kent Count “Horses without horses”. Arnold had broken four rules in a single moment: Drive a car without horses along a public street Drive a car without horses without the intervention of three people Do not show the name and direction of the vehicle Quadruplica the maximum permitted speed Yes, according to the fine, Arnold was traveling at a speed of 8 mph (about 13 km/h) when the maximum allowed limit was 2 mph. Of the means to calculate this speed, nothing is said. What we do know is that the result was immediate. Put before Justice, Arnold was convicted of each and every one of the accusations that were awarded. What Arnold had in mind is that the payment of 4.7 pounds were just an investment. With his stumbling he showed that the speed limits were completely outdated for those Combustion vehicles And, therefore, shortly after the speed limit was extended to reasonable 14 mph (just over 22 km/h). But this was not here. Arnold, in addition, was known for its handling of vehicles. He got the license to sell in the United Kingdom the vehicles of Karl Benz slightly modified with a local production under the name of Arnold Motor Carriage. A car with which he managed to win in the first race of emancipation in it was linked to London with Brighton (separated by 87 kilometers) and served to multiply car sales. The first fine was, in short, a marketing trick. In Xataka | The Mercedes T80, the car mounted on the engine of a hunt with which Hitler wanted to reach 750 km/h Photo | Clare Black and Knowledge of London

There are more and more and better plugs for electric cars but Tesla continues to lead. The recipe: cheap and reliable loaders

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Holy Week of 2024. Dozens of Tesla cars They queue in a Cañavate Atalaya charger (Cuenca) in the middle of any place. The situation went viral and because scenes were repeated in Mérida and Albacete. The waiting were 15 or 20 minutes in many cases but also exceeded the time in others. They all had something in common: Tesla Load Stations. Despite the jokes and despite the intention of ridiculing the owners, in Xataka We broke a spear in favor of those drivers And we count why they had happened. If Holy Week has taught us, it is not missing chargers for electric cars. What are missing are reliable plugs. So we titled. Year and a half later, things have changed. Not only in Spain, also in the United States. But, nevertheless, Tesla still has the best load experience. And that is still key when selling the car. Tesla chargers are still ahead The data this time comes from the United States but the situation is extrapolable to what happens in Spain. JD Powerspecialists in motor market analysis, has analyzed the status of the United States recharge network and its conclusion is very simple: there are more and more chargers available and increasingly spoil. But Tesla continues to lead, with much, satisfaction among electric cars when you have to recharge a vehicle. Keep in mind that the United States has a huge Loading deficit. Especially if we consider that distances are huge. If the country is wanted to embrace the electric car to a greater extent it is necessary to create a good network of loaders as fast as reliable. A good part of that network is now in the hands of Tesla, where most users load. They do not even have a Tesla. The latter is key to understand why satisfaction with the price of loaders and the load experience has fallen in the last year. According to their data, drivers are less happy with both points because they observe that, for them, prices are more expensive and the most rough experience than for Tesla users. Something curious occurs, therefore. According to JDPOWER, the level of failed visits (the charger does not work correctly or is out of service) is the lowest in four years and the number of drivers who have reported these failures (14%) is also lower than in 2024. General satisfaction, however, has fallen. The Tesla Network is so good compared to the competition that the users themselves have pressed to the manufacturers of other cars to the point that they have assumed the Tesla standard to load, modifying their own cargo ports. The best user experience In Spain (and Europe) that is not so because fast loaders are all (except for the first Japanese cars) CCS2. That is, the plugs are the same for everyone. But Tesla’s experience is still above. To understand it, we resume the case of Holy Week in 2024. This year the same have not been observed issues. Or not, at least, with the same seriousness as last year. It is logical, as we said that happened. Tesla has “kidnap” the owner of his cars in his own ecosystem. Tesla did something very intelligent since her birth. It was as simple as proposing their own load stations. Thus they guaranteed to give a confidence network to those who made the leap to a completely new company (and technology). They also took advantage, to create synergies of which the rest of the manufacturers have not arranged. First, his recharge were free. Now that is a thing of the past but their prices are still lower than those of the competition. This guarantees that, in the day to day, the Tesla user prioritizes the load in their stations. But saving a few euros on a very specific day is no reason for users to prefer to spend more than an hour stopped before recharging the vehicle. If those queues were formed, it is because the Tesla recharge network is very reliable. In fact, myself when I try the cars of any company for our reviews soil to prioritize Tesla plugs Because they have never left me. Only Zunder has offered me this same experience. With the rest of the companies I have had problems of malfunction or inoperance. It is logical, therefore, that if a Tesla driver has hurried the autonomy of his car is reluctant to go to another load point, consume a good part of the little percentage that remains reserved and risks that the plug of another company does not work. He will think: “Better wait here for an hour than to go to another place, Not being able to load and have to call the crane“ To this we must add that Tesla’s user experience is the best because they have eliminated small frictions that are very appreciated on a day -to -day basis. It is something similar to Apple’s ecosystem. Can you have a Mac, an Android phone and use some AirPods in the latter? Yes, but there are small barriers that the average or little advanced user will hurt especially. The same goes for the electric car. Tesla has one of the best software in the market and, probably, the best route calculator. Prioritize your chargers and show you in real time the occupation of it and advances a possible wait. When you arrive, the vehicle detects the loader, opens the load gate and plugs the hose in the car. When it is time to continue, the mobile phone warns you and as the car is associated with a credit or debit card, nothing must be done. The position will be passed. Simple. When one carries in Tesla supercargers with another car you have to Log in the mobile phone and select the load point you will use. You have previously had to register the card. Finally the position will be passed. This process has to repeat it with Each and every one of the companies … Read more

We knew that many use Starbucks as an office. In South Korea they lead to the printer, and the chain has said enough

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Enter a Starbucks store and meet several people installed with your laptop It is no novelty. The spacious tables, the plugs available, the air conditioning and, of course, the coffee, make these premises a habitual shelter for students and remote workers. A printer on the table. A cardboard separator to isolate itself from the world. A strip to plug laptop, mobile and tablet at the same time. All this has been seen – and is still seen – in some South Korea Starbucks. The phenomenon has shot, and therefore, the chain has decided to intervene. New standards in South Korea. The new regulation is clear: no printers, multi -mitoms or accessories that convert the premises into a portable office. This is what The Korea Herald collects itwhich adds that it is also not allowed to occupy several chairs or leave belongings for hours to “reserve” table. The original poster (left), the translation of Google Lens (right) From this week, employees have instructions to warn those who fail these guidelines. The measure communicates with a poster that already decorates dozens of stores in the country. And although the message is illustrated with a smiling bear, the background has nothing tender. What does it mean to be a 카공족. In South Korea, 카공족 It is the name that receives “the tribe that studies in coffee.” The term combines the words 카페 (cafeteria) and 공부 (study), and is used to describe those who spend hours working or reviewing notes in premises such as Starbucks. What began as a practical and punctual solution has become such a widespread custom that now raises a dilemma: is it a legitimate use of space or silent abuse of the common environment? The social reaction. The Donga Ilbo medium collects The testimony of Professor Seo Kyung-Duk, from the Sungshin Women’s University, who shared the image of the computer equipment with the cardboard separator: “It looks like a private office.” SEgún explainedeven the foreigner who accompanied him was bewildered: “How can anyone mark their territory in a public place like a cafeteria?” He asked, surprised. Some of the images that account for 카공족 in South Korea The author of the photo explained that this person did not return in all the time he remained in the store: “I spent three hours there and did not return once,” he said. Meanwhile, Asia Economy echoed some Of the most repeated reactions among users: “There is not even room to have coffee because of the 카공족,” said a person. Another ironized: “They leave their things and they will eat … is this a ‘Study Café’ or what?” Why have Starbucks Korea acted now? Starbucks has not acted in whim. According to the company, what is at stake is the collective experience. When a large table is occupied for hours by a single person, or when a client is absent leaving their objects as a reservation, the balance between those who enter, consume and leave, and those who turn the place into a personal office. There is also a commercial logic. Maintaining rotation is key in a business where each table counts. If someone occupies a seat for four hours with a single coffee, the impact is not anecdotal. If not, tell the owners of coffees in Barcelona, They are applying their own formula “anti occupies terraces”. Images | Athar Khan | 서경덕 (Via Donga Ilbo) In Xataka | We already know who is going to drink all the coffee that Brazil will not export to the US for the tariffs: China

Someone has made a ranking with the greatest fines in the history of Spain and an old suspect is in the lead: Ryanair

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The fine imposed by the Government of Spain to Ryanair is the highest in the history of our country. The more than 100 million euros of sanction exceed all the records we had until a few months ago. To get an idea, the highest fine until then was just over three million euros. These are the most large fines and the companies that have received them. The highest. Without any discussion and without competitors. Ryanair received a sanction of 107.78 million euros last November 2024 on the occasion of his hand luggage policy. The sanction did not arrive alone and also punished Vueling (almost 40 million euros) and Easyjet (almost 30 million euros) for the same issue. However, Ryanair’s traffic volume is so high That by punishing the same fact repeatedly, the economic amount for the company is very high. So much so that, as we see, the two companies that accompanied him in it were well below the punishment to the Irish airline. Unprecedented. The list with the 15 toughest fines imposed by Spanish entities to companies operating in our country has collected Facua. This classification shows how, before the sanction to the airlines, the toughest fine had been for Unicaja and had stayed at 3.17 million euros. At that time, the Junta de Andalucía punished Unicaja in a package that extended to other banks that had imposed land clauses to their customers in mortgages. Rapier It was considered abusivehe entailed a very small fine with Ryanair’s. Despite being the first until very recently, Ryanair’s fine is 3,400%. Who appears? In addition to the aforementioned airlines, Norweigan was also part of that package and slipped between the 10 largest sanctions in our country. In between, Movistar (receivable in the time of the calls), CaixaBank (soil clauses), Vodafone (seven fraud among which is the deceptive advertising) and Endesa (for applying illegal rates for the rental of their light counters). It should be noted that, in addition, Movistar is the company that repeats the most in the ranking, adding up to three fines, the aforementioned and two other sanctions worth 1.53 million euros. Vodafone also repeats with a second fine of 1.19 million euros. Volotea, the fifth and final sanctioned airline, also appears here with a fine of 1.4 million. Banco Mare Nostrum (BNM) and Caja Rural de Granada are two other financial entities that close the breakdown. Has there been any consequence? Yes, although Ryanair has camouflaged him In response to rates, supposedly abusivefrom Aena at airports. Its response has been the abandonment or partial exit of some regional airports. A change of strategy propitious to the company And that, in addition, it has served to press the government, aware of the importance of these spaces. While Ryanair has been winning passengers in Spain, now he faces new fines. Some of the routes survived by the commercial agreements that Ryanair maintained with municipalities and other entities for advertising that acted as Covering line of the line. That has caused the complaint of, among others, The Mayor’s Office. Who is right? It remains to be seen. At the moment, the sanction is imposed but in Spain justice has proved both to the government and the company Despite judging the same fact: the possibility or not of Ryanair to charge for hand luggage. Until now, aerial regulations force airlines to let a lump pass that allows the “essential” to transfer. That, according to the government, cannot enter the brief measures that The company applies. Ryanair alleges otherwise And emphasize that there is no paper that proves the minimum size that the backpack has to have. The latest changes. Everything indicates that Europe is going to put on the side of Ryanair. The institutions are advancing in a new regulation to fly in which you want to stipulate a minimum measure for cabin luggage. This is slightly higher than that forced by Ryanair and The company has already made the changes to adapt to the regulations. It remains to be seen, to leave that new regulation ahead, the company would end up claiming Spain the money of the large fine with which it has punished it. This listing list shown can completely change if your claims get ahead. Photo | Nejc Soklič AND FACUA DATA In Xataka | Ryanair’s new competition does not come from any European airline: it comes from India and has an ambitious plan

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

Patients lead to the operating room photos of their “improved” with AI. Surgeons are in charge of making them come true

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A year ago, an unpublished contest copied The covers of different media: Miss Ia. As one can intuit, the models were created with artificial intelligence and presented impossible bodies: without wrinkles, without pores, without history … the event, promoted by the platform Fanvue World AI Creator AwardsNo only generated a flood of comments, but opened a deep debate: are we willing to accept something of beauty as an ideal that does not even exist? And something further, does the real body begin to be seen as a defective version of the digital render? Unreal expectations. According to The Columbus Dispatchplastic surgeons such as Dr. Jaclyn Tomsic and Dr. Craig Lehrman are observing a worrying phenomenon in their consultations: patients who come with images generated by AI, asking for impossible interventions. “With AI you can make your body as you want,” explained Tomsic, maxillofacial surgeon in Cleveland. For his part, Lehrman, a plastic surgeon at the Wexner Medical Center of the Ohio State University, has reported cases of older patients who carry photos of edited celebrities. “They tell me: ‘Why don’t I look like this?’ Both doctors have recognized that they have had to dedicate more and more time to explain why they cannot replicate what IA promises: biology, bone structure or age cannot be erased with scalpel. Beyond. The expectations created by filters, apps and image generators They are generating Frustration and danger: some people insist on operating again and again, chasing a non -existent ideal. In addition, they have warned of a psychological risk: people who fail to resemble these artificial images can become obsessed, resort to multiple surgeries and face constant frustration. Lehrman has summarized it as follows: “That will take many unhappy people and pursue this imaginary dream.” In fact, this phenomenon goes beyond the surgical: it affects the way we interact with our own image. It is increasingly common for people to ask AI that value their physical appearance Or tell them what to improve on your face. The point is not what the AI ​​can respond, but the fact that your judgment has so much weight on how we can perceive. Fiction made leather. Before, manipulating an image required technical knowledge or tricks of light and makeup. Today, with a free app, anyone can be seen as a supermodel in seconds. The AI ​​not only retouches, but has led it to another level: it can generate faces from scratch. According to Lehrmanthis makes it “increasingly difficult to distinguish the real from the invented.” Given this threat, the American Society of Plastic Surgeons has created a gallery with real photos before and after procedures to combat misinformation. But the battle is unequal: millions of false, stylized and standardized images are generated every day. The Aitana case. This logic is reflected in phenomena such as Aitana LópezSpanish influencer with more than 350 thousand followers on Instagram that does not really exist. In other words, it is a 100% model generated with AI. Its creators They have admitted They sought to create an influencer that “never gets tired, never ages, always smile.” With his success, he has not only obtained real advertising contracts; It has also imposed a new quite problematic aesthetic standard because there are no human limitations. Advances and dilemmas. The “artificial intelligence in plastic surgery: where do we stand?” has reviewed 96 Studies on the use of AI in plastic surgery. Although it has proven useful in diagnoses of dermatological diseases, surgical planning and even prediction of postoperative complications. However, the conclusions have also warned about ethical risks, lack of regulation and algorithmic biases. One of the key problems is that AI models are trained with limited populations data, which can generate racist, class or capacitist results. The bias behind the AI. The algorithms are trained with millions of images that reinforce Eurocentric, thin, cis and young people. As has warned Kenig et al. Quoted in the study, AI can exacerbate inequalities by replicating stereotypes invisible other bodies. This concern has also been pointed out by critical voices within the technological field. For example, author Ruha Benjamin holds that “Algorithmic discrimination does not need hate to function; You only need data from the past ”, in his book Race AFter Technology. For his part, Safiya Noble, in Algorithms of Oppression, has detailed How commercial and racist logic are embedded in search engines and recommendation systems. Technology, far from democratizing beauty, seems to strengthen it even more. The definition of beauty is not so much. As Bell Hooks said: “Representation matters.” However, if now the AI, trained with exclusion patterns, decides what faces we see, what bodies are shown, and which do not, then we are not only attending an aesthetic change, but to a deep reconfiguration of what we consider desirable, possible and human. The issue is not asking: “What is beautiful?”, But what are we willing to obey? Image | Freepik, Xataka Xataka | The cosmetics industry has found a new market: the problem is that they are girls under 10 years

Intel and TSMC lead the revolution of photonic chips. His problem is that China has just done fully in this war

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Douglas Yu, a TSMC executive, The biggest chips manufacturer on the planetwith responsibility in the field of systems integration Explain clearly The disruptive capacity of integrated photonic circuits: “If we manage to implement a good system of integration of silicon’s photonics We will trigger a new paradigm. We will probably be placed at the beginning of a new era. “ The photonic silicon seeks to develop the technology of this chemical element to optimize the transformation of electrical signals into light pulses. The most obvious field of application of this innovation is the implementation of high performance links that, on paper, can be used both to solve communications between several chips and to optimize the transfer of information between several machines. Advanced packaging technologies with which the main semiconductor manufacturers work, such as TSMC, Intel or Samsung, can benefit a lot from a communication mechanism between very high performance chips. And the large data centers in which it is necessary to connect a large number of machines, too. However, there is a particular discipline to which it would be wonderful about the advantages proposed by the photonic silicon: the artificial intelligence (AI). China plans to use this technology in AI, 6G communications and quantum computers Intel and TSMC are some of the companies that have been working on the development of their technologies linked to the photonic silicon, and, as we can intuit, this innovation is no stranger to Chinese companies and research centers. In fact, in mid -May 2024 the Institute of Information Technology and Microsystems of Shanghai (China) in collaboration with the Lausanian Institute of Technology (Switzerland) reached a crucial milestone. Until that time one of the fundamental ingredients of the integrated photonic circuits was the lithium niobate. The lithium tantalate allows the manufacture of large -scale photonic chips and with much lower costs This synthetic salt intervenes in the manufacture of these integrated circuits because its physicochemical properties allow it to optimize the conversion of electricity into light, but it has a problem: the industrial exploitation of this technology is conditioned by The high cost that each wafer hasand also for the size of each of them. What these scientists have achieved is to replace the lithium niobate with other semiconductor material whose properties are even more attractive: the lithium tantalate (litao3). Ou Xin, one of the scientists who have led this project, assures That in addition to paying better than the lithium niobate, the lithium tantaloate allows the manufacture of large -scale photonic circuit and with much lower costs. This is because the manufacturing processes are similar to those currently used to produce conventional silicon semiconductors. This is the context in which, according to SCMPthe chips center for integrated photonics Xplore (Chipx) of the Jiao Tong University of Shanghai has announced that it has started the production of 6 -inch wafers for photonic chips. Interestingly, this production line Use Lithium Niobateso it still has a room to advance and take advantage of the properties of the lithium tantalate. Be as Professor Jin Xianmin, the director of CHIPX, says that the photonic integrated circuits have a huge potential not only in the training and inference of AI models, the classical supercomputing and Quantum computersbut also in the development of communications 6g. Image | TSMC More information | SCMP In Xataka | Today China and the US have parked their differences for a good reason: they will analyze together the risks of AI

Japan’s commitment to lead the chips industry is held on these three companies

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For Japan, as for South Korea, Taiwan, China or the US, the semiconductor industry has a strategic character not only because of the deep beneficial impact it has on its economy, but also by the impulse that gives its technological capacity. This is the context in which the Japanese government announced in the middle of last November A public plan that will injected into companies that are dedicated to the design and manufacture of chips no less than 325,000 million dollars within ten years. In addition, it prepares additional 65,000 million that seek to support the activity of local companies. There is no doubt that it is a very strong and more ambitious bet even than those designed by the US, China or Europe. Only South Korea prepare an economic investment of a similar size. The first reactions of Japanese companies have not been waiting. “We are working with our clients to develop technologies that teach four generations in the future.” These words of Nobuto DoiVice President of Tokyo Electron, are a declaration of intentions. However, before moving forward in this article it is important that we briefly review where Japan comes from. At the end of the 80s this Asian country dominated the global industry of the integrated circuits with an indisputable forcefulness. Nec, Toshiba, Hitachi, Fujitsu, Mitsubishi, Matsushita and other Japanese companies They monopolized in 1988 Nothing less than 50% of the chips industry. However, today none of these companies is positioned among the leaders of a sector dominated with iron fist by Taiwanese, American, Chinese, South Korean and German companies. Tokyo Electron: Japanese Asml This company is one of The pillars of the Japanese industry of integrated circuits. It is dedicated to the design and manufacture of lithography and waking -up equipment, so its machines often live together in the TSMC, Intel, Samsung, Micron Technology or SK Hynix plants, among other companies, with the teams of the Dutch company ASML or the American Apply materials. Its importance for Japan is such that it is currently one of the Japanese companies that are being backed by subsidies approved by the Japanese government. The new Tokyo Electron plant in Oshu will be intended for the manufacture of advanced team deposition equipment and logistics In fact, it is building several buildings in the prefecture of Miyagi that will presumably be completed in 2025. The most ambitious project that will address in these facilities will consist of the design and manufacture of some some WAFSMA TEACHING BY PLASMA Very advanced. They are precisely the machines that Nobuto Doi speaks in the statement that I have included in the second paragraph of this article. These equipment are involved in the definition of the pattern that will later be transferred to the wafer. The Japanese company Hitachi also has plasma wafering engraving machines, but the singing voice in this particular market has tokyo electron. Apparently the engineers of this last company are working side by side with their clients to develop solutions that, according to doi, four generations ahead will be positioned. However, its plan goes beyond the facilities of the Prefecture of Miyagi. And it is that Tokyo Electron is also building a new plant in Oshu, in the prefecture of Iwate, which will be intended for the manufacture of advanced wafering deposition equipment and logistics. We can be sure: Tokyo Electron is the Japanese Asml. Without it, the ambitious plan pergeted by the Japanese government for its semiconductor industry would not be viable. Rapidus Corporation: The spearhead of Japan The company that is destined to compete from you to you with TSMC, Intel or Samsung in the chip production market is Rapidus corporation. In fact, it has been expressly created to replace Japan at the forefront of integrated circuits. This is a very young company. It was founded on August 10, 2022 by the Japanese government with an initial capital of 7,346 million yen (just under 46 million euros) contributed by, and here comes the interesting, Sony, Toyota, Nec, Softbank, Kioxia, Denso, Nippon Telegraph and Mufg Bank. The initial capital invested in the constitution of this company is not very bulky, but there is no doubt that the companies that participate in it have an indisputable relevance in the sectors of technology, automotive and telecommunications. Rapidus is currently putting a circuit manufacturing plant integrated in northern Japan, in the city of Chitose (Hokkaido), in which it plans to produce 2 Nm semiconductor. The first prototypes of these chips are already readybut large -scale manufacturing will not arrive at best until 2027. Rapidus is making a chip manufacturing plant in northern Japan in which it plans to produce 2 Nm semiconductors What is causing the new Rapidus factory to monopolize the looks of the semiconductor sector is that, according to Atsuyoshi Koike, which is the president of the company, it will be completely automated. Its purpose is to resort to robots and artificial intelligence (AI) to tune an automated production line that will be specialized in the manufacture of 2 nm chips for AI applications. Its plan consists, in short, to produce integrated circuits faster, with a lower and more quality cost. To manufacture these semiconductors, equipment of extreme ultraviolet lithography (UVE) produced by the Dutch company ASML, and practically all manufacturing processes are automatic. However, the tests of test and validation, interconnection and packaging of the chips are still largely carried out manually in most manufacturing plants. According to Rapidus, its automation technology of all these processes will allow you to reduce the delivery time of your chips by 66% compared to the times they usually offer TSMC and Samsung. JSR Corporation: The photor resistance monopoly is in his hands There is a Japanese company that is indisputably leader in its specialty. It is little known outside the scope of the semiconductors, and yet it is one of the bastions of Japan. Is called JSR Corporation and specialized in the production of photorers. The photolithography equipment designing and produces ASML … Read more

has detected the transformation of lead into gold

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Isaac Newton has gone down in history One of the most talented physicists and mathematicians that have existed. In fact, for many scholars it is The most relevant scientist who has existedand it is a very respectable statement if we ponder their contributions to science and the modest means that were available to the end of the 17th century. However, Newton did not dedicate his life only to physics, mathematics or theology; He also consecrated to the study of alchemy. The Royal Spanish Academy defines it in its first meaning as “the set of speculation and experiences, generally of a esoteric nature, related to the transmutations of the subject, which influenced the origin of chemistry.” The second meaning is also a bit disturbing: “wonderful and incredible transmutation.” Alchemy as Isaac Newton and other explorers saw it, for identifying them in some way, does not have a scientific support. However, serious science has identified mechanisms that explain under what circumstances a chemical element can be transformed into another. Newton would have loved to participate in this CERN experiment The stars are The authentic chemical elements factories of the universe. Inside the reactions of nuclear fusion They trigger the production of the chemical elements that we can find in the periodic table until reaching iron. From the latter it is not possible Extremely energy cosmic events. As it is, nature has taught us that there are mechanisms capable of carrying out the transmutation with which the ancient alchemists dreamed. In fact, Radioactivity It is one of these phenomena. We can define it as the process of natural origin that explains how an unstable atomic nucleus loses energy in the attempt to achieve a more stable state. And to achieve this emits radiation. A stable atom is “comfortable” with its current structure and does not need to do anything, but an unstable precise detach from a part of its energy to achieve a state of less energy and greater stability. On the way to a completely stable configuration, it will continue to detach itself from a part of its energy and will be transformed into other chemical elements. Despite its mass each lead core travels inside the LHC to 99,99993% of the light of light Since nuclear physics arose at one time halfway between the late nineteenth and early twentieth century scientists have achieved transform some chemical elements into others In his laboratories. CERN (European Organization for Nuclear Research) has done it recently. And he has succeeded causing the frontal collision of lead nuclei in its main particle accelerator, the LHC (large hadron collider). When these nuclei collide with a very high energy there is a plasma of quarks and gluones, which is nothing other than a state of extremely dense and hot matter. Each lead core has a considerable mass because it contains a large number of nucleons: 82 protons and 126 neutrons If we stick to the isotope of this most abundant and stable chemical element. Despite their mass each of them travels inside the LHC to 99,99993% of the speed of light, which triggers the production of a photon pulse. Under these conditions, the most interesting thing is that a process known as electromagnetic dissociation takes place. It consists of when a photon interacts with a lead core has the ability to trigger oscillations of its internal structure that can cause the expulsion of a small amount of neutrons and protons. A golden core contains 79 protons, so the expulsion of 3 protons from a lead core causes it to become gold. The physicists of the Alice of CERN experiment have observed, in addition to the conversion of lead to gold, Talium and Mercury production in these experimentation conditions. It is exciting that the human being has been able to design and build the machines that are necessary to carry out an experiment like this. Image | Cern More information | Physical Review c In Xataka | CERN has achieved something unprecedented: transform smartphones sensors into an antimatter chamber

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