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“I don’t know if I want my children to see short videos and are not able to see something more than 15 minutes”

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The arrival of the new short videos formats driven by platforms such as Tiktok or Instagram has dragged YouTube and other social networks to adopt the same content format Based on the infinity scroll. That change has generated a growing concern among the pioneers themselves in online video. Steve Chen, co -founder of YouTube, has shown his doubts as a father and user with respect to this format of short fast consumption videos that Pop for all attention of the user. “I think Tiktok is entertainment, but it’s pure entertainment,” Chen said. Use and throw content. Within the framework of A talk with students From the Stanford Graduate School of Business, the YouTube co -founder was not fully comfortable with the idea that their young children grow up watching videos of a few seconds. “I do not know if I want my children to see short format content as their only form of entertainment, and that they are not able to see something that lasts more than 15 minutes,” Chen, father of two children confessed, answering the questions of Stanford’s students. These statements show a growing concern among parents: children are digital native, but that does not guarantee that they develop skills or have the necessary tools for the responsible consumption of content served in Infinite Scroll Format demanding of constant attention. The child’s attention capacity. Chen also insisted on an argument that has become frequent among researchers: excess short content can alter the capacity to concentrate, especially among the youngestaccording to published by The Guardian. “The shortest format content is equivalent to lower attention capacity,” Chen said in his response. This type of highly visual videos were described by the engineer as a simple entertainment that does not necessarily provide educational or formative value, but with a high risk of affecting The attention capacity and to the cognitive development of the youngest when exposed to increasingly brief and addictive stimuli. Screen time control. One of the situations that most disturb Chen is the role of algorithms in foster digital addiction. As explained by the founder of YouTube, many platforms depend economically that users, including children, spend as long as possible connected. “It is a delicate balance between what attracts user attention and what generates more income, compared to what is really useful,” he warned. Faced with this risk, Chen openly suggested that technology should “consider limiting the daily use time of these applications, according to the age of users.” Extended concern. Steve Chen is not the only leader in the digital field that has ruled on the risks of the doomscrolling. Sam Altman, who premiered paternity in February, was also worried about The first podcast OpenAI for the impact of social networks In younger users. “I am worried about children in technology. I think that short videos inject dopamine; it seems that children’s brain development is deeply affecting,” said Openai’s founder. In that same idea, the social psychologist Jonathan Haidt, author of the Super Survents coincides ‘The anxious generation’ and professor at the University of New York, which in different interventions has warned sharply: “Social networks are seriously damaging children in the western world,” in statements collected by Business Insider. The expert has also warned that “the destruction of human care worldwide could be an even greater cost for humanity than the epidemic of mental health and health problems.” Try to put doors to the field. Steve Chen mentioned in his talk, that some parents try to prevent their children from watching short videos “with vibrant colors and addictive eyes”, preferring longer, although less exciting formats. The reason is clear: it is sought to prevent minors from developing an early dependence on fast and instant content, difficult to reverse as they grow. That is why parents expose them to content with a more resting rate. “If they are not exposed to the short format content immediately, then they maintain satisfaction with that other type of content they are watching (with longer videos),” said the co -founder. In Xataka | How to recover the concentration that social networks and multitars have taken us Image | Wikimedia Commons (Taiwán Plus), Unspash (Albert Oliveira)

that anyone can create apps in minutes without knowing

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Becoming an idea into something real has never been simple. And when we talk about Create applicationsbarriers have been historically high. It was not enough to be clear about what: it also needed to dominate the environment, have time and have the necessary knowledge to make it possible. Artificial intelligence is beginning to change that equation. Not only is it facilitating work to experienced developers –Although certain profiles have also put in tension and even slowed processes in some cases-, but begins to open the door to those who had never scheduled a line of code. A few days ago we met Lovablea European solution that allows us to create web pages and other projects from natural language. Now enter the scene Github spark: its preliminary version I already suggest a powerful ideato build apps talking. How Github Spark works: an idea, an app, a click The skills continue to import, but the paradigm is changing. For those who never felt comfortable with the code, but they do know how to articulate an idea well, a window that previously seemed closed is opened. Github Spark starts from an ambitious premise: to fully shorten the distance between an idea and a fully functional app. It is not the first platform that tries to translate natural language into interfaces, but here the proposal goes much further. Spark not only generates pretty prototypes: Create complete applicationswith border and backend included, ready to deploy. That promise is based on a combination of known tools and an experience of use designed so that everything flows without technical barriers. The user can describe what he wants and see how the interface and the logic of the application take shape in real time. Under the hood works Claude Sonnet 4Anthropic’s language model, but integration also gives access to OpenAi modelsMeta, Depseek or XAI without the need to manage keys or additional configurations. The github approach is that everything is included from the first moment: storage, inference, deployment, authentication, synchronized repositories, version control and integration with co -pilot. Spark allows you to be iterate on an idea using natural language, visual controls or directly code, with real -time suggestions. The result can be tested live and, if convinced, published with one click. From a personal page to a business app: examples made with github spark The platform is integrated with the entire github ecosystem. You can open a repository with Github Actions and dependoabot already ready, launch a Codespace to work in agent mode with co -pilot or even assign tasks to the code agent. SPARK offers a coherent experience for those who are accustomed to the usual workflow of Github, but without demanding previous knowledge to those who arrive from outside. As we can see, Github Spark does not add up only to professional developers. It also seeks to attract those who want to create functional prototypes in minutes, launch their own personal tool, try business ideas or even design pages with interactive functions that go beyond what traditional web builders allow. From an APP of event discovery to a restaurant recommendations or a routine planner with intelligent functions. At the moment, Spark is available in preliminary version for those who have a subscription to Copilot Pro+. The price starts from $ 39 per month and includes up to 375 SPARK messages, ten active development sessions and the possibility of creating an unlimited number of applications. In addition, it incorporates all the advanced functions of the Pro+Plan. Images | GITHUB In Xataka | The US has not yet solved its basic problems, but its great AI project against China is already underway: Stargate

The Xiaomi CEO came out in a video showing a new product and sold out in minutes. It was a cat carrier

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To exhaust products in minutes is something that Xiaomi has enough experience. More than a decade ago already They got it with their mobiles And currently your star product are cars; They recently sold 200,000 units of Xiaomi Yu7 in three minutes. The last product that have exhausted just put it on sale has not been technological, but something much simpler: a cat carrier. Exhausted. They tell it in Following The Yuan. After the publication of A video in which we see Lei Jun showing the cat bagThe brand had to hang the exhausted poster in just a few minutes. The bag-transport cost only 199 yuan, which to the current exchange is about 23 euros, and was put on sale as an accessory for the company’s SUV, the company, the Xiaomi Yu7. Designed by cat owners. In the video, Lei Jun tells that the transport has been designed in collaboration with brand employees who have cats. It emphasizes that it has a spacious interior, ventilation grilles on both sides and a transparent window at the top. It also has a pocket on the side. The truth is that, although the design seems very careful, it has nothing super -revolutionary, it is a fairly normal cloth transport. It doesn’t matter, that has not prevented them from running out. For the car. As we said, Xiaomi has promoted this new cat bag as an accessory for Xiaomi Yu7. The car has the possibility of activating a “pet mode” which consists in the installation of a camera in the rearview mirror that allows us to control pets and also has a speaker so that we can talk to them. In addition, by activating this mode the air conditioning continues to work so that they do not pass heat (or cold, it depends). It is not the only brand that offers something like that, others like Tesla either Mercedes They also have it. Pets like target. We have more and more pets and also They occupy a more privileged position in families. China does not get rid. To the current rhythm, it is expected that by the end of the decade Pets exceed children under 4 years. Given this, more and more technological companies that enter the growing segment of pets. Xiaomi launched The connected feeder and source that we already analyzed in Xataka And we have seen other connected products such as this curious Cat quantifying bracelet. Image | Douyin / Amparo Babyloni In Xataka | Communicating with our cats has always been a complex task. A study has discovered the key: flashing

Andrew Huberman is determined to make 150 minutes of cardio a week to live more. Science is not so clear

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It’s 3:52 in the morning and Ashton Hall Start your day: Mouth Tapingcardio on the balcony, statements, ice on the face, banana on the face, all in timed time. His extreme morning routine went viral a couple of months ago with more 99 million views on Tiktok. What started as Skincare with Journaling He has mutated in a culture cult. More and more men adopt millimeter routines with the promise of order, control and success. In that scenario, Andrew Huberman, Stanford neuroscientificpodcast, Guy supplement, Not only is a reference: he is an architect of this new biohackeada masculinity model. Science and Podcast. Huberman’s fame comes for his program Huberman Lab, where he dissects studies on health, sleep, exercise and supplementation, with serious voice, marked body and surgical safety. Talk about protocols, not advice and millions follow it to the letter. What proposes Sounds simple: look at the sun in the morning, train on an empty stomach, dive into cold water, take magnesium, sleep 8 hours and repeat. But it sells it as a high performance science and packages it in a self -control language, constant improvement and masculinity without cracks. But is it reliable? Not everyone is convinced. The researcher Joseph Zundell (Harvard) has pointed out in Times How Huberman draws hasty conclusions from studies with limited evidence. Many of the articles that he quotes – special about supplements or longevity – are based on animal models or are preliminary. However, it makes them “protocols” with appearance of certainty. And we must not forget the conflicts of interest, since it recommends supplements like AG1 (from Athletic Greens), a company that actively collaborates. Although it is presented as an independent disseminator, its content is also part of the well -being business. Even in the most personal field. An article in New York Magazine He collected former partner testimonies that accuse him of manipulative behavior, toxic relationships and contradictions between his mental health discourse and his private life. One more bro? Yes, but with a doctorate. Huberman embodies the university version of the Bro-fitness: sculpted body, extreme control and scientific discourse. It is less explicit testosterone, plus paers reviewed. However, the objective is the same: optimize body and mind, and project success. Its physical presence is not secondary: it is part of the message. And their theories are perfectly aligned with the new online masculinity referents, where to take care of the skin and make cardio coexists with protein smoothies and direct sunlight as if they were dogmas. In his crusade for longevity, He has emphasized what to do 150 minutes from Cardio A week you can lengthen life. That figure appears in several episodes and interviews. But is it really backed by evidence? Science behind. This is where enthusiasm collides with complexity. The data of the “150 minutes” is not invented, but is decontextualized. In the videos he explains that training in zone 2-moderate intensity, without reaching exhaustion-for 150-200 minutes per week improves cardiovascular health, metabolism and brain function. However, a meta -analysis, published in the British Journal of Sports Medicineanalyzed 26 systematic reviews of 199 cohort studies: a total of more than 20 million observations. The general conclusion is clear: higher levels of cardiorespiratory fitness are associated with a significant reduction in the risk of death and cardiovascular diseases. There is no universal magic figure. According to Justin Lang (Cheo Research Institute)the response to exercise varies between individuals according to age, sex, genetic, health and lifestyle. A high -level athlete will need to train much more to improve its aerobic capacity. Someone who starts can benefit with just walking at a light pace three times a week. Besides, As he warns The cardiologist Jayne Morgan (Piedmont Healthcare), the benefits of cardio are not linear or infinite: more exercise does not always equals more health. The threshold depends on the physical condition and other clinical factors. In fact, studies such as The one published in Missouri Medicine They already talked about an inverted j curve: moderate exercise protects, excess can have adverse effects, especially in the heart. In summary: yes, 150 minutes of weekly cardio is a good reference for most healthy adults, but it is not a closed formula to extend life. Science supports regular physical activity as a longevity factor, but with margins, adaptations and without absolute guarantees. The hidden cost of male self -care. Huberman’s message – orders, discipline, physical performance – connects with a silent anxiety growing among many men. Obsesting with diet, body or training is no longer perceived as a problem, but as willpower. But behind certain extreme self -care routines, what sometimes there is is control, guilt or fear of failing. As the journalist Noemí López Trujillo explains in Newtralthis aesthetic pressure is not understood only in image terms, but as an extension of the norms of traditional masculinity: like it without seemingly effeminate, rendering without showing weakness, improving without speaking of beauty. Therefore, many men seek to “maximize” their physique instead of simply taking care of themselves. And that is where phenomena such as looksmaxxingthat disguise emotional discomfort with improvement language, but push it towards isolation, guilt or even radicalization. There is something in your favor. Andrew Huberman has achieved something that few scientists achieve: to become viral. Has brought complex concepts to mainstream and has aroused the interest of millions in the body, the brain and aging. But its way of translating science into protocol has costs. His statements, such as the 150 minutes of cardio to live more, are based … but also many nuances that he rarely explains. And in a world saturated with productivity anxiety, these nuances are essential. Not everything that seems science is. And not everything that improves your health needs a timed routine at 4:00 in the morning. Image | Pexels and Tiktok Xataka | You will love the muscle above all things: how protein fever has resulted in a “perfect” body cult

Byd has shown us that the 400 kilometers load in five minutes is very real. And they have managed to change their minds

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Designed for heavy but practical transport for the daily car. And an advance that has raised some controversy in the battle that China-Occident in the battle for the electric car. It is the 1 MW charger of byd. The same one that, they promise, can load 400 kilometers of autonomy in five minutes and with which, in the words of Stella Li (vice president of the company) equals “the experience of Fill a deposit of gasoline “. It is definitely one of the advances in the electric car that has raised the most interest in recent months. And in Xataka we have tried it. Yes, it is very real In a concessionaire and next to other lesser power chargers. Byd has shown us the operation and recharge of its 1,000 kW or 1 MW charger. An experience that promises to match the times of gasoline but that, they assure from the company, is not primarily thought for cars. Last March, Byd hit the table showing your most powerful loaders to date. Immediately, domino’s chips fell and we knew that Catl and Huawei also confirmed that had ready their own ultra -grape load suppliers. The race for the electric car in China advances at a devilish pace that has taken us at the end of this June, just over two months later from the announcement, to see these loaders in operation. The expansion of the more than 4,000 points that the brand aspires to have very soon in its country clashes frontally with the slowness in Spanish facilities. Be that as it is, the truth is that two byd cars can now recharge in this type of facilities. They are the byd and tang l, two electric mounted on their super e-platform that can assume the power of its megawatt flash charger, a load point known as the 1,000-1,000-1,000: 1,000 kW, 1,000 amps and 1,000 volts. A BYD TANG L at the 1MW load station And that’s what we saw. First with a Byd Tang L and, later, with a Byd have l, the company showed us the system load capacity. For this it is necessary to plug the two hoses that leave the supplier. The car, like a Porsche Macan, has two load shots (one on each side) and plug at the same time. Once the two shots are connected, the load begins from the vehicle. And magic happens. In two minutes, 7% battery capacity has passed to almost 40% of it. One is hypnotized When you see on the central screen the 1,000 kW of load power and the percentage of the battery upload. The maximum peak does not last too much. But that is not too much problem. After 20%, the power falls to 750 kW and it remains so until 30%. It is not then that it is maintained with sufficiency in 700 kW or slightly below. Thus it will come with hardly any drop to 80%. At that pace, moving from a brief 7% to 80% autonomy leads to, just over five minutes. And that 80%, In a car with 83.2 kWh Battery are about 67 kWh available. To lower the data to the ground, two questions. Is it a lot of power? It is a lot of power. It is a barbarity. To get an idea, the most powerful load points that are in Spain Sinde 350 kW and begin to consider loads of 500 kW. Have a car that carries, when the power drops, at 700 kW is to fold the most advanced vehicles at the moment, from the Porsche Taycan and Audi GT e-tron to the KIA EV6 and Hyundai ioniq 5. Just a handful get these figures in Europe. Really load 400 kilometers in five minutes? Yes and no. We explain ourselves. The 67 kWh that would have available any of these two cars with 80% load equals just under 350 real kilometers with a consumption of 20 kWh/100 kilometers. If you talk about 400 kilometers in five minutes it is because the Chinese homologation system is much more lax than WLTP. This has led us to receive news from China from cars with 1,000 kilometers of autonomy that would not support an exam in Europe. Despite this, we must not crucify how to measure in the Asian country. You have to take into account the peculiarities of each market. The homologations are assumed, both the Chinese and the European WLTP try to simulate the use that an average driver would give it. That in China, where the car is used as a ciudad already low speed (also in the ringms) it is much more likely that the average consumption is lower than for a European driver. It is something that have confirmed different Chinese brands: the car is for urban use, for the long trips bullet trains and airplanes are used. Is it really practical? When Byd gave the news, the competitors soon answered. As we have seen, Catl and Huawei came out to point out that they also had similar widths for imminent expansion. From Europe the message was another: That loading power is useless. That was what they pointed out in Mercedes. An opinion that can be controversial and shared before going to China. Now, I thought things better. What they maintain in Mercedes is that so much power is not necessary because, generally, when we stop we are standing for more than five minutes. And it doesn’t matter if we are going to have coffee or, simply, fill the car deposit. In the latter we spend more time of five minutes. If we are barely stopped 10 minutes, it recharges it with a car that can fill its batteries at 350 kW of power does not change much with respect to Byd’s proposal. And, if this power is supported, in just 10 minutes almost 60 kWh capacity will have been filled. That is, 300 kilometers with the previous calculations. In practice, the difference is not much. A … Read more

A third of Spain will be completely dark for one or two minutes. The astronomical event of the century is approaching

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We still have the healthy envy of seeing the Spectacular images of the total solar eclipse that toured Mexico, the United States and Canada just over a year ago. It was an event that paralyzed a continent, especially in the so -called “totality strip”, the areas that were completely dark. Well, the next great cosmic appointment has Spain as a global protagonist. And we will not have to wait long. August 12, 2026. In just over a year the first total visible solar eclipse will take place since 1905, a unique opportunity in more than a century. Together with Iceland, which will enjoy 58 seconds of totality, we will be the only country in the world that can see all the phases of the eclipse. And let’s be sincere: in the middle of August, our possibilities of having clear skies are considerably greater than those of the Icelanders. Context. A total eclipse occurs when the moon aligns perfectly between the sun and the earth, projecting a shadow that immerses the lucky ones in a twilight darkness in the middle of the day. In the 2026 event, this shadow, the strip of totality, will have about 300 kilometers wide and will cross Spain from west to east, from Galicia to the Balearic Islands. The autonomous communities that will be under the shadow cone of the totality are Galicia, Asturias, Cantabria, Castilla y León, the Basque Country, La Rioja, Aragón, Catalonia, the Valencian Community and the Balearic Islands. Madrid will be right on the edge, with a fleeting totality in the north of the region. But the rest of the country will not stay empty and witness a very partial partial eclipse, with a coverage of more than 90% (and up to 74% in the Canary Islands, with Lanzarote as the island with better seats for the show). Almost two minutes. An essential tool to plan the observation of the eclipse to the millisecond is the Xavier Jubier interactive map. This resource is the gold standard for eclipses hunters because it allows you to click anywhere on the map to obtain the exact hours of each phase, the duration of the totality, the altitude of the sun in the area … The eclipse will start just before sunset. The totality phase will take place around 20:30 (summer peninsular time), with the sun already very low on the horizon. This turns observation into a race to counterreloj against sunset. In cities like Oviedo, the totality will last 1 minute and 48 seconds, only a few more moments in Burgos, León or the Island of Mallorca, which is emerging as one of the most tourist places where to see the eclipse (with the disadvantage that the sun is put before in the peninsular northwest). Safety first. As much as I tempt us, look directly in the sun, even partially eclipsed, can cause permanent eye damage. During all partial phases (before and after the totality), it is necessary to wear certified glasses to see eclipses or indirect methods to observe it. For the rest, it will be enough to look for a high observation place, with a horizon clear of mountains or buildings to the west so as not to miss the one that will undoubtedly be the astronomical event of the century. In Xataka | Mars eclipses are ridiculous compared to ours. The reason is an extraordinary numerical chance

In a desperate attempt to avoid the blackout, Ree tried to start a gas center seven minutes before the disaster

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The Official reports on the blackout They reveal the maneuvers to counterreloj that the network operator did to try to stabilize the system while rushing into the collapse. T-7 minutes. In the moments of maximum tension (never better) prior to the historic blackout that left the Iberian Peninsula without light on April 28, Red Electric took a desperate measure: he ordered the start of a combined gas cycle center to try to stabilize an electrical system that crumbled at times. The call to the owner of the plant, registered in official reportsthere was just seven minutes before the system collapsed completely at 12:33 at noon. However, the thermal power plant never coupled then The zero of tension It occurred first. It was not a typical morning. That April 28 were the perfect conditions to test the network: a relatively low energy demand, and a very high solar radiation that caused a massive predominance of photovoltaic generation. With a network dominated by the electronics of investors instead of the heavy turbines of the conventional generation, the tension already issued warning signals. At 11:00 in the morning, after a voltage climb, the transformers of two Adif substations in Zaragoza were fired. But the situation became critical from 12:00, with the appearance of strong frequency oscillations that put the stability of the entire network in check. The oscillations. At 12:03, a first 0.6 Hz oscillation was detected, an unusual phenomenon that lasted for almost five minutes, forcing Red Eléctrica to take emergency measures. Among them, reduce electricity exchanges with France and Portugal. It didn’t help much. At 12:19, a new 0.2 Hz oscillation shook the system. Given the seriousness of the situation and the need to “attach more conventional generation” to control the tension, Red Electrico contacted at 12:26 with the head of a combined cycle center in Andalusia to start urgently. The choice was not accidental. The group that could be attached faster in the southern zone was sought, one of the most affected by instability. The chosen central, which had decoupled at 9:00 in the morning, was “hot”, which allowed it a shorter start time: an hour and a half. The goal was to be fully operational at 2:00 p.m. Unfortunately, the system did not have that time. Just seven minutes after the starter order was given, at 12:33, a succession of waterfall generation, mainly due to surgeens, caused the total collapse of the peninsular electrical system. The measure, a last resort to avoid the greatest blackout in the recent history of Spain, “never consummated by the zero of tension.” Image | HRAD (CC by-SA 3.0) In Xataka | Many plants disconnected from the network when the blackout began. The problem is that some renewable did it before

In Spain a book is published every six minutes. It is the symptom of a bubble that does not stop inflating

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When talking about the health of the editorial industry in Spain, publication figures are usually used to justify the good condition that the book business lives. However, rapid accounts lead to thinking perhaps just the opposite: excess launches may be hypertrophy the bookstores, which are suffocated by a series of very uninjury side effects. How much is published? The Latest public data from the Ministry of Culture They speak of 92,000 books a year with ISBN, that is, more than 250 books a day. Every minute, six books. And that telling only the launches with legal deposit, that is, we do not count the self -edge (last year, it was around the three newspapers … By author) For platforms as widespread as Amazon. That do not count as part of the editorial cake but add thousands of potential titles per month to the mountain of slopes of the troubled readers. Success is what is sought. Why so much novelty? There are a number of reasons that make up a very complex ecosystem to explain this production overdose. On the one hand, it is an editorial strategy for compensate for the fall in sales by book: except Bestsellers And specific successes, the books sell less, the runs are lower and the publishers multiply their offer to cushion it. From there comes a constant publication and search of that new success that supplies the previous one. The fact that Increase global income Although the runs fall, it is proof that The strategy works. Oihan Iturbide, former Editor, counted in the jump that “the editorial industry looks more like a fast food chain than a restaurant with a good homemade menu: the key is in volume, not in quality.” Many are. On the other hand, there is the proliferation of new publishers: In 2024Spain had approximately 3,160 active publishers. It does not imply a very notable change with respect to previous years (comparable to 2016, and notoriously less than 3,564 of 2009, year with Spain in a very different economic context). Of these, only about 2,000 publishers launch more than 10 titles per year, and only 13 exceed 700 annual titles. Is it a note of diversity and vitality of the sector? Yes. But also of the enormous contrast between the large Spanish editorial groups (Planet and Penguin Random House, more Santillana in the educational field) and the rest: According to the Federation of the Editors Guildthree out of four books come from these groups. The distribution fish. This overproduction atmosphere (Rubén Hernández, by Errata Naturae, Talk about those 92,000 books per year “One third is returned to the darkness of the stores and is probably guillotine”) is contaminated with the complex distribution system in Spain. This is also Hernández: “The publisher publishes with a price (…) of 10 euros and it is sent to the distributor. The bookseller buys it with a discount close to 35%, from which he obtains his benefit, and pays 6.5 euros to the distributor, which stays 2 euros and pays the remaining 4.5 euros, that he does not pay him, but offers him a loan. “ The snowball continues to grow: “In turn, the distributor claims to the editor of his 4.5 euros, which he does not pay him, so he contracts a debt. And to reimburse it, the editor has no choice but to invest the 4.5 euros he has won (but he must) in another book that, after arriving at the bookseller, activates his credit, while the distributor enters another 2 euros. Book, the editor and the bookseller receive debts or credits. A vitiated system very similar to a bubble that continues to grow without brake. Are all bad news? No: the evidence that it is published too much allows publishers to realize that The situation can become unsustainable. Possible solutions to Very vicious system of returns in bookstores. The excess of supply is not bad in itself, unless it leads to overproduction and atibor the system until it is bursting. It is obvious that six books per minute are too many, but … who is the first to start with the cuts? Header | Photo of Pierre Bamin in Unspash In Xataka | Adult books are therapeutic. But behind there is a framework of demands, plagiarism and complaints

An object never seen on the Milky Way is emitting radio waves with X -rays exactly every 44 minutes

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The Milky Way continues to present new mysteries through the telescope. An international astronomer team has discovered an objectuntil now unknown, which emits powerful radio bursts with a watchmaker’s precision. But the strangest thing is that we know that they are accompanied by X -rays. Context. One of the cosmic fashion phenomena in astronomy magazines are transitory long -period radio objects (LPRT), whose understanding is still in diapers. Since 2022 only 10 have been identified, which were overlooked or confused with other celestial objects. LPRT emit bursts of radio waves periodically, but with much longer intervals (of minutes or hours) than traditional pulsaries, which usually have periods of second or milliseconds. The progress in radio telescopes has opened a window to the transitory universe that allows astronomers to identify LPRTS more easily. One of the most powerful radio telescopes is the Australian Matrix Askap, which consists of 36 parabolic antennas 12 meters in diameter acting as a single instrument of 4,000 square meters. Double surprise. Astronomers have just added a new layer of complexity to the world of LPRTS with the discovery of Askap J1832-0911, an object that emits powerful radio wave explosions. Your pulses last two minutes and repeat every 44 minutes and 12 seconds. The finding is important because it is just the tenth LPRT discovered and places the new object among the 30 most brilliant radio sources in the sky. But the surprise came to cross the data with observations of the NASA X -ray Space Telescope. Chandra had observed the same area of ​​the night sky at the same time as Askap (what scientists have compared with “finding a needle in a haystack”). The Observatory discovered X -ray emissions from the same point and with the same cycle of 44 minutes and 12 seconds. It is the first time that an LPRT emitting waves of both frequencies. Collapsed lines. ASKAP J1832-0911 is around 15,000 light years from Earth, in a very populated region of our galaxy. This location greatly hinders its study in other wavelengths, because there are many objects that could be obscuring it, and an immense amount of dust that blocks our line of vision. Infrared searches have also not yielded results, although hope is put into future observations with the James Webb space telescope. Unlike other LPRTS that seem to “light” and “turn off” intermittently, the object has been active during the 10 months that observation has lasted, although with a variable brightness. The million dollar question. What exactly is Askap J1832-0911? There are many theories about what type of object could be producing such regular and energy signs. This object is different from everything we have seen before, but researchers do not believe it is an extraterrestrial civilization sending messages because the emission spectra are too broad. Instead, two main suspects shuffle. The first is an old magnetar: a neutron star with incredibly powerful magnetic fields in his last stage of life, possibly orbited by another star. The second is an ultra -freeized white dwarf: the remnant of a low -dough star at the end of its evolution, with an exceptionally strong magnetic field and a companion star. But for this theory to fit, the white dwarf would need the most intense magnetic field ever detected in one of its class, surpassing the 5 × 109 gauss. We know nothing. “Finding such an object suggests the existence of many more”, Nanda Rea saysCo-author of the study and professor of the Institute of Space Sciences (ICE-CSIC) in Spain. “The discovery of its X -ray transitory emission opens new perspectives on its mysterious nature.” This discovery not only adds a new mystery to the list of things that we do not understand the universe. He also suggests that LPRTS, of which we barely know 10, are more energy than was thought. Hunting to find more objects like this and decipher its origin has only begun. Image | POT

I had no idea how to execute a local AI and I just did it in five minutes with my Android. It has been a disaster

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The career of whom he manufactures The most capable smartphone It will not be alone in its components: AI has become an essential absolute To win this battle. Gemini He is the absolute protagonist, both in Android and in an iOS in which The presence of AI is insignificant. A complete and capable assistant, with the requirement of being permanently connected to the Internet. Google, Gemini’s mother, has decided Give 100% local models a chance in Android. Including those of its competitors. I, who had never executed a local AI on a PC, I have been able to achieve it on my phone in five minutes. 10 Google applications that could have triumphed Installing Google ai Edge Gallery Google has released an open source app so that any user can interact with multimodal AI models. It is completely free, has no publicity, and its only limitation is that it is not published in Google Play Store. You have to Download it from github. It is as easy as clicking on the link and downloading the file, which weighs 115 MB. Once you have downloaded it, click on it and install like any other app. Depending on the customization layer you use and the browser from which you download it, it is possible that the system asks for the occasional permission. Give it without fear, since it is a clean Google app. Once installed, the app will be in the application drawer or desktop of your phone, depending on your layer. Just open it and download the available models to start using it. Using the local AI in my Android This application allows you to use four predetermined models of the local AI: GEMMA-3N-E2B-IT-Int4 GEMMA-3N-E4B-IT-IN4 GEMMA3-1B-IT-Q4 Qwen2.5-1.5b-Instruct Q8 Each of these names is very likely to sound to Chinese, but there is a very simple summary. Gemma are the Google models, and the number behind “E2B, E4B, 1b”, refers to the parameter number of each model (2 billion, 4,000 million, 1,000 million). This means that, in order, Gemma 3 1b is the fastest, but more basic model, followed by E2B and with E4B to the head as the most complete. On the Qwen side, it is a Chinese model developed by Alibaba, with 1.5 billion parameters, and quite logical precision. These are the models that the app brings, but we can install models on our own. What I win and what I lose using the local The Google app is designed to execute three scenarios of use: Images questions: problem solving, identifying objects, etc. Prompt Lab for summaries, rewriting texts and code generation. Ai Chat: Multi -urnal conversations with AI The local AI is somewhat more limited in these scenarios of use, but in return it is more private. It runs 100% on your phone, without connection to servers. This minimizes response latency, something that I wanted to verify with a fairly simple test: the translation of a text not too extensive. “If the computing power on each chip continue to grow exponentially, Moore real Demanded Were Useful in Business Applications, Too. Defense Contractors Thought About Chips Mostly As a Product that Could Replace Older Electronics in All The Military Systems. “WHEN US DEFENSE SECRETARY ROBERT MCNAMARA REFORMED MILITARY PROCUREMENT TO CUT COSTS IN THE EARLY 1960S, CAUSING WHAT SUB IN THE ELECTRONICS INDUSTRY CALLED THE” MCNAMARA DEPRESSION, “FAIRCHILD’S VISION OF CHIPS FOR CIVILS SEEMED PRISON Off-The-Shelf Integrated Circuits for Civilian Customers Even Sold Products Below Manufacturing Cost, Hoping to convince more customers to trym. “ Chatgpt (4th): 5 seconds Deepseek: 19 seconds The local Google (Gemma 3 1b): has not understood the instruction. Google local (Gemma 3 E2b): 26 seconds. Google local (Gemma 3 E4b): 34 seconds. Google local (Qwen 2.5): 16 seconds. The results are quite irregularand that is that the app is in its initial stage. The main problem I have found is that sometimes it is difficult for him to execute the model, even in cases of light models such as Qwen. In a Samsung Galaxy S25 Ultra I had to restart the app on some occasion, since I did not execute the prompt. I have also wanted to prove how simple problems solve with the visual understanding of images, using the heavy model E4B of Gemma. It has also been quite disaster. In the first attempt I have asked him to solve all the problems. He has succeeded. In the second, I have asked him to solve only the first. He was wrong and, after telling him that it was wrong, he has err. Yes, he does a good job recognizing elements in the images, but it still has a hard time going further (Google just lets his Gemma models choose for these tasks). The conversational assistant works well, with its limitations, but well. It serves to talk and help us with any task that we can think of that you do not need a real -time search on the Internet. If you are especially jealous with your privacy, and want to execute the without any server connection, it is a relatively valid alternative. Google has this app as a test laboratory. At least for now it is not a real alternative, much less, to Gemini. Image | Xataka In Xataka | Artificial Intelligence on your PC: The best free tools to install models of AI as Deepseek, call, mistral, gemma and more

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