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Artemis 2 passes its life test and clears the path to the Moon

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The mission Artemis IIwhich aims fly over the Moon againdid not have the best of luck in its rehearsals before launch due to the fuel and a hydrogen leak. But now NASA can breathe easy, since the second general test with fuel of the gigantic SLS rocket It has been a resounding success. and opens the way for humanity to return to the Moon half a century later. Without a doubt. Between February 19 and 20, 2026, engineers from the US space agency managed to complete the loading sequence of propellants without serious incidents, stopping the countdown exactly at the expected moment: T-29 seconds. The doubts about the engineering team are left behind and an imminent launch window opens that could start as early as March 6. Master hydrogen. Filling a 98-meter-high rocket with more than 2.6 million liters of superfrozen fuel is no easy task in practice. That is why in the previous test, carried out on February 3, we saw how it had to be aborted when the clock read T-5:15. And the culprit was none other than NASA’s old enemy: liquid hydrogen leaks. It must be taken into account here that liquid hydrogen is an exceptionally efficient propellant, but tremendously elusive, since it requires cryogenic temperatures of -253 °C. This extreme temperature causes the materials shrink in the rocketfacilitating escapes and increasing safety risks for the crew. Although this is what NASA found during the Artemis 1 mission in 2022. The repair. For this second attempt, NASA technicians meticulously replaced the defective seals and filters and the truth is that the move went perfectly. And during this last test, the filling was completed normally and the exhaust controls worked wonderfully. One step closer. The success of this trial is essential so that the Artemis program is not further delayed and neither is everything that will come after it. If we put ourselves in context, the Artemis mission was scheduled for September 2025, but was delayed until spring 2026 due to technical problems in the heat shield, batteries or control system of the Orion capsule. A big blot on paper that NASA needed to make up for with some success like this. When will it be released? In this way, the space agency already has its sights set on the launch window that opens from March 6 to 30the most optimal being to do it between March 6 and 11. That is why if everything follows the planned plan, the Orion capsule will be launched on a free return trajectory on a trip of approximately 10 days around the Moon, without landing on the moon. The objective. On board will be four pioneers who will take over the Apollo missions: Americans Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover and Christina Koch, along with Canadian Jeremy Hansen. Its mission is not only historic because it is the first manned flight of the program, but because it will serve to validate all life support systems before the main course: Artemis III. A project that has its sights set on carrying out the first manned landing on the south pole of the Moon since 1972 and, above all, overtaking competing countries such as, for example, China, which makes very significant progress in the space race. Images | POT Pedro Lastra In Xataka | NASA has managed to grow lettuce in space. What he discovered next was not part of the plan

Perplexity has already marked its path for what it believes is fundamental

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For years, advertising has been the silent fuel of much of the internet. It has financed search engines, web pages, applications and services that we use daily without paying directly for them, something that we have assumed almost as a norm in the digital environment. But the emergence of chatbots and search products powered by AI forces us to rethink that balance, because here the product is no longer just content, but answers that the public should consider reliable. In this area, any suspicion about who influences what is read stops being a technical detail and becomes a central issue. Clash between trust and monetization. In recent months we have begun to see how large AI companies take clear positions, some betting on introducing advertising in their free products and others rejecting it outright due to the impact it could have on user perception. The result is a map that begins to outline a division, just when the sector needs to demonstrate that it can become a sustainable business. And what’s at stake is not just how you make money with AI, but what kind of relationship you build with those who use it. Trust as a product. One of the clearest movements in this division is found in Perplexity. The company even tested ads in 2024, showing sponsored responses under the chatbot’s responses, but it began to withdraw them at the end of last year and now assures that it has no plans to continue down that path. “The user must believe that this is the best possible response to continue using the product and be willing to pay for it,” an executive explained to the Financial Times. The internal conclusion is direct: if the advertisements sow doubts, the value of the product itself is compromised, although the company leaves the door open to revisit that path in the future. War of ads against ads. Anthropic is in the same line as Perplexity, which not only defends keeping its chatbot without advertising, but has turned that decision into a public message. The company launched a campaign prior to the Super Bowl with a direct slogan, “The ads are coming to AI. But not to Claude,” which points to the direction of the sector without explicitly mentioning competing products. The campaign shows scenes that caricature commercial recommendations within personal conversations, underscoring the discomfort that such a scenario could generate. The reaction from OpenAI. Sam Altman rated the campaign of Anthropic as “clearly dishonest” and defended that the ad model his company is exploring would follow different principles, with advertising “separated and clearly labeled” and without influence on the system’s responses. The manager framed this decision as a question of access, arguing that expanding the free use of AI requires new sources of income, and he contrasted this with the idea that Anthropic offers an expensive product for those who can pay for it while OpenAI seeks massive reach with free access. Not everyone wants (or can) do without advertising. Training and sustaining these systems burns cash and has increased the pressure to find sustainable income as usage grows. In this context, some relevant actors are exploring advertising as a way to finance free access, with formulas in which sponsored content appears separated from the responses, with testing on products like ChatGPT and in formats Google Search with AI. It should be noted that Google has not introduced ads to its Gemini chatbot. Images | Perplexity + Nano Banana In Xataka | Claude Sonnet 4.6 promises to do the paperwork for you. Now he has the challenge of his life: dealing with the Spanish administration’s websites

While Europe studies reintroducing military service, Mexico has taken the opposite path: reducing it

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The Russian invasion of Ukraine and the shift in international policies of the US have caused Europe to no longer trust NATO as a defensive shield, betting on improve your defense resources. Thus, while several European countries debate whether to return to introduce military service mandatory, Mexico decides to take the opposite path and shorten the mandatory military training of its citizens so that it fits better into the lives of young people and is more attractive to them. The change of Mexico. The Government of President Sheinbaum has applied the largest operational change in the conditions of the National Military Service (SMN) in Mexico since 1942. As stated in the article 5 of the Political Constitution of the Mexican States, the service of arms is mandatory for all Mexicans between 18 and 40 years old. This call-up is divided into two modalities: Framed and Available. The former remain quartered for about three months, while the latter remain at the disposal of the Secretariat of National Defense (SEDENA) for a year, during which time they are instructed in training sessions on Saturdays. However, with the last reform which has come into effect in January 2026, the training phase has gone from 44 weeks to just 13, with limited classes for those assigned as “On Availability” on Saturdays from 7:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. so that the fulfillment of this duty does not interrupt the studies or work of recruits. New civil-military program. Colonel Juan Sandoval Muñoz, commander of the 78th Infantry Battalion, explained to The Universal that the new “Availability” model prioritizes civil-military subjects to reinforce military values ​​and discipline. The dates for this training are divided into two periods: from February 14 to May 9, and from August 1 to October 24, adding a total of 13 sessions. Participants cover 10 subjects focused on basic training, discipline and support for the population, first aid, civil protection and DN-III-E Plan and knowledge of weapons. All subjects are taught by officers and sergeants of the Armed Forces so that recruits become familiar with the military hierarchy. 13 weeks in the barracks. For its part, the Framed option remains with 13 weeks of admission to barracks, with tailored training as if they were professional soldiers. According to Colonel Sandobal, many of these recruits requested this modality to release their SMN Identity Card in less time, which certifies that they have fulfilled their duty, but they ended up requesting entry into the army or military schools. For this reason, it was decided not to change this modality to keep this recruitment route open, despite being equal in time to the other alternative. European rearmament brings the military back. In Europecountries like Denmark accelerate compulsory military service from 2026 for womenwhich was previously only voluntary, and they extend it to eleven months in its basic version. For its part, Germany is discussing bringing back the voluntary military service before the end of the year, after abandoning it in 2011, and Croatia reactivates it on a mandatory basis with a duration of two months for men starting in January 2026. Other countries like france and Poland are starting ten-month voluntary programs for 18- to 19-year-olds, with the option of joining the reserve or the army if a military crisis arises. In Spain the Minister of Defense continue betting by a voluntary reservation instead of resume military servicebut that does not prevent the debate circulate in the army. At least on a theoretical level. In Xataka | In the midst of rearmament, Europe has realized an unimportant detail: it does not have enough bullets Image | Government of Mexico, Unsplash (JEsus Herrera)

The key is not to have a goal but a path

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We face the end of the year and arrive at January full of energy and new purposes for the new year. I’m sorry to be a little “Grinch” in this matter, but the problem is that a large part of those purposes deflate a few weeks later, often before the end of February. Gyms and language academies are witnesses of this. How do those people who manage to maintain their goals for months and even years do it? The answer is that they do not depend on a heroic willpowerbut rather a system that turns purpose into a routine that you want to repeat. The data from a study carried out by researchers from the University of Stockholm and Linköping (Sweden) with 200 people leaves no room for doubt: 77% of the participants fulfilled their resolutions in the first week, 55% kept it a month later and only 40% of the participants remained faithful to their commitment after six months. Other analyzes show that up to 43% of resolutions have been broken by the second week of February. Why resolutions wither in February Like a deciduous tree, the motivational effect of New Year’s resolutions loses its initial momentum in a maximum of five weeks. Science speaks of “fresh start effect“, in which dates like January 1 act as a “clean slate”, a new stage that motivates us to initiate a change. That initial emotion serves as an initial impulse, but it is not enough when the novelty wears off and the daily routine returns. Many times, resolutions are seen as a test of willpower: if you stumble once, you feel like you have failed completely, and that brings guilt and abandonment. Studies at the University of Scranton indicate that 46% of people with a clear purpose feel successful after six months, but only 4% achieve it without setting that well-defined objective, which shows that having a clear goal helps, but it is not everything. A recent study from Cornell University conducted with 2,000 adults in the United States followed their New Year’s resolutions for a year and looked at whether the motivation to achieve them came from external reasons (extrinsic motivation) or because they really liked doing it every day (intrinsic motivation). On average, external motivation obtained higher scores (6.27 out of 7) than internal motivation (5.41 out of 7). That is, external factors had more direct impact about motivation than your own willpower. However, the Cornell researchers discovered something that did make a difference: internal motivation consistently predicted continuity success at all measurement points of the research year, while the external one did not have much influence. Those who completed their goal had 5.73 in internal motivation compared to 5.18 for those who did not. Each extra point increased the chances of success in the goal by 1.60 times. The important thing is not the destination, it is the path As and as I pointed out writer and leadership coach Tiffany Toombs on FastCompanythe most productive people do not see purpose as a fixed and distant goal, but as something flexible to create habits that fit into their daily lives and that work for them. pleasant to carry out. Instead of just obsessing about the bottom line, like “saving more money,” they look for small, daily actions that lead to an identity goal such as “becoming more responsible with money.” To help you on that path, James Clear, author of the bestselling ‘Atomic habits‘, gives some keys to convert those purposes into habits integrated into your routine daily that no longer require effort to make, but rather become almost a reward. For example, choose exercises in which, far from suffering, you have fun. You hate monotonous weights, so sign up for Zumba or a guided class, which will make you return to the gym with enthusiasm. If pedaling for a long time seems boring, put on a cool audiobook or a podcast while you train. The key, according to Clear, is finding the system that allows you maintain consistency through activators that lead you to fulfill that habit. The same applies to eating better or saving: integrating small changes into your daily life that provide you immediate satisfaction. If you have to use willpower, it means that you have not integrated enough incentives to turn that purpose into a routine and you are among that 43% who will abandon their purpose in mid-February. In Xataka | You don’t need more hours in the day. All you need is to understand how the brain works to work better with less. Image | Unsplash (Tim Mossholder)

repeat the path that took Huawei to the top

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They have a “total mobile.” His Oppo Find X9 Pro It’s a beast. A call to which we have given the highest rating of the year on our analysis table. After a time away from Europe, the Chinese manufacturer has returned. And in what way. Its presentation in Barcelona was quite a declaration of intent. A global launch event where we were also able to learn about the vision of its main managers in Europe and Spain. Oppo has only two national rivals ahead of it in China, according to Counterpoint data. Huawei and Vivo, two large manufacturers that, fortunately for Oppo, do not currently have as much reach in Europe. Its great rival is Xiaomi, which in Spain has been ahead for years but this is not the case in China. Will Oppo be able to repeat the feat that Huawei achieved in its day of placing itself at the top of the top mobile manufacturers? It’s too early for that, but they do have a unique opportunity to achieve it. Willing to break the current deck “The European market is one of the most important strategic markets for Oppo abroad. We believe it is our largest growth space,” he explains. Elvis Zhou, CEO of Oppo Europein a group interview in which Xataka was present. “Young Europeans highly value photography and Oppo has always been very strong in this area. We are very confident.” They don’t say it just to say it; The Find X9 Pro really offers incredible photographic results. And that quality, almost unexpected, is precisely what can catapult them to the top. “Our current market share in Europe, compared to our target, it still has a considerable gap. Secondly, Europe is the best high-end market in the world. And Oppo’s future development strategy focuses on the premiumization of the brand. Third, European users are very demanding about the product experience,” Zhou said. The brand message is ambitious, somewhat also common in rivals like Honorbut they are aware that they are in a sweet moment. Zhou even dares to criticize the telephone sector itself: “before the emergence of AI, people felt that the smartphone industry was somewhat boring and monotonous, because the functional experience of the product had not changed revolutionaryly. But now that AI has entered mobile phones, we believe that AI can completely reshape the smartphone experience, and even include the entire ecosystem of services.” “Before the emergence of AI, people felt that the smartphone industry was somewhat boring and monotonous” “I think the smartphone industry can still bring surprises. Our investment in AI is huge. We have more than 6,000 patents related to AIwhich places us at the global leader,” explains the Oppo manager. “Young Europeans are very eager to see the changes that AI can bring to their lives when integrated into phones.” This AI, however, is not an exclusive function of the premium range. As he did at the time Huawei with the P Smart rangeOppo knows that to conquer the Spanish market it needs the reindeer series. “Our Reno series, including our A series, will receive the new AI features,” confirms Zhou. Some AI functions that are offered for free, although the brand recognizes that “we do not know if the change in the user experience that AI brings could also cause changes in the industry profitability model. “This is still being explored.” In this relationship between mobile manufacturers and AI companies there is a prominent player. “Our collaboration with Google has always been very pleasant. Our phones use the Android system and our cooperation with them is comprehensive; whether in products, marketing or customer service. I firmly believe that all cooperation must be beneficial for both parties“. Oppo’s situation is not the same in Europe as in China. “We have two AI tracks: one specific to China and another for the global market. Outside of China we mostly use Google Geminiwhich is already thoroughly integrated into ColorOS (Settings, Notes, Recording, Documents and AI My Space). The collaboration with Google Gemini is very strong. In China, we use our own models and collaborate with other suppliers.” Oppo’s approach is hybrid. “The capabilities of the phone itself will be very powerful in the future,” he explains. “Here each manufacturer has its approach. My personal opinion is that the best solution is to combine it, part in the cloud and part taking advantage of the power of the phone.” Of course, with the always necessary qualification of “putting the user’s privacy first.” Something for which they have worked with Google on the Privacy Computing Cloudwhere technically neither Oppo nor anyone else can access that processed data. A promise in line with the European regulation that they also keep in mind. Manufacturing in Europe? Without counting on the enormous government support that Huawei has, Oppo is a giant with more than 40,000 employees globally and established as an independent brand of the BBK group since 2023. The company has more than 65,000 patents and has a solid supply chain, also on European soil. “We are not ruling it out (producing in Europe), but this decision must be left in the hands of our supply chain team” “With Oppo’s global expansion and changes in the entire supply chain, we have nine manufacturing centers around the world,” says Zhou, who when asked if they plan to open a factory in Europe responds that “the establishment of a manufacturing center is quite complex; we have a professional supply chain team that carries out this evaluation and decision-making. Therefore, We do not rule out the future possibility of producing in Europedepending on changes in market demand and in our supply chain. We don’t rule it out. But this complex decision should probably be left to our supply chain team.” Thanks to the fact that Oppo has warehouses in Europe, the new Find X9 Pro have been able maintain the same battery level as the Chinese variants. That is, a total of 7,500 mAh, which makes it the … Read more

GPT-5 is being a tortuous path for OpenAi and points to an uncomfortable reality: the era of the head is over

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Chatgpt-5 is falling. They have not confirmed it directly, but Sam Altman is already in ‘Hype’ mode and all Rumors They point out that the new model will be presented this month. That GPT-5 It will improve its predecessors is evident. However, as has happened in other industries (Did anyone say smartphones?) The rhythm of the advances is slowing down and everything indicates that GPT-5 will not be the revolution that were previous versions. A discreet jump. They tell it in The Information. Sources close to OpenAI say that, although with improvements, the qualitative leap will not be as great as it was with GPT-3 and GPT-4. This contrasts with Altman’s constant mentions The close thing that is to achieve a general artificial intelligence (AGI), an AI capable of matching the smartest human being in all areas of knowledge. But Chatgpt-5 is far from being AGI and also OpenAi has encountered numerous obstacles along the way. The GPT-5 that was not. At the end of 2024, Openai was working on an internally nicknamed model and that was the candidate to become GPT-5. However, the jump with respect to the previous version was not large enough and finally OpenAi decided to launch it as GPT-4.5, an intermediate version that Nor was it a great improvement With respect to its competition. In Xataka A group of experts in AI attended a party in a mansion. The topic of conversation: what will be when AI ends humanity The one that will be. Openai has continued working on what GPT-5 will be and is about to launch. According to internal sources, the new model improves especially in programming and also does so more efficiently; It is able to produce higher quality code without consuming more computing power. Openai wanted to improve this area, where Anthropic takes a lot of advantage with Claude Code. GPT-5 will also improve its agricultural skills and will be able to follow complex instructions to function without human supervision. In The Information they cite an example about a customer service agent. Giving it a list of rules, GPT-5 can decide when a client must receive a refund, while in previous models they needed to see many complex cases to do it well. Although there will be improvements, The shadow that will not be surprising continues to fly over. Obstacles. The Tensions between Openai and Microsoft They have hindered the advance of the new model. There have been internal friction between both companies, especially for intellectual property issues. Openai accused Microsoft of anti -competitive behaviors. Microsoft accused Openai of not giving access to his most advanced models. They also faced a shortage problem of quality training data and, more recently, the Discompassed talents to the team of Zuckerberg Superintelligence and Google by removing Windsurfhis commitment to the Vibe-Coding. {“Videid”: “X9N4GWC”, “Autoplay”: False, “Title”: “OpenAi has presented chatgpt agent”, “Tag”: “chatgpt”, “duration”: “47”} The challenge. Openai has encountered a problem: that specialized reasoning can be taken to a chat with which we can talk naturally. It is what happened to them with O3, the reasoning model that They presented in April and that will feed GPT-5. Both this model and O1 were trained by reinforced learning, but O3 provided much more processing capacity and obtained surprising results. However, by turning it into a version of chat, that performance fell into chopped and I lost many capabilities. The reasoning model is so powerful that the response time increases a loteven for very simple questions. GPT-5 is expected to be at an intermediate point. Continuism. GPT-5 improvements may be more than enough for OpenAI continues to feed your machinerybut it seems clearer that there is a deceleration of the generative AI. At the end of 2023 Bill Gates already said that I did not believe that GPT-5 would be much better than GPT-4 and that the generative AI was close to its roof. It is an almost natural process and that we have seen with other industries such as smartphones: a lot of innovation and qualitative leaps in the first years, followed by a continuous stage in which the novelties are lower and the sensation is progress, but much slower. Image | Wikipedia, Pexels In Xataka | There is a chatgpt fever among public officials. What we do not know is how it will affect us as users (Function () {Window._js_modules = Window._js_modules || {}; var headelement = document.getelegsbytagname (‘head’) (0); if (_js_modules.instagram) {var instagramscript = Document.Createlement (‘script’); }}) (); – The news GPT-5 is being a tortuous path for OpenAi and points to an uncomfortable reality: the era of the head is over It was originally posted in Xataka by Amparo Babyloni .

Save the price or save power. And he has chosen the path of self -destruction

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In just ten minutes of video call, eight OPEC+ countries made a decision with the potential to alter the balance of the global energy market. Behind this new movement, that could be expectedthere is something else: a carefully calibrated strategy, with economic and geopolitical implications that could spread far beyond the barrel. Opening the tap. Saudi Arabia, Russia, Iraq, United Arab Emirates, Kuwait, Kazakhstan, Algeria and Oman – the eight OPEC+ countries that They applied volunteer cuts In 2023— they have been gradually increasing Your production. Now they have decided to accelerate this process: from August they will add 548,000 additional daily barrels, and do not rule out another similar increase in September. According to the official notethis could be completed before planning the total reversal of 2.2 million barrels per day that stopped pumping last year. Do you enjoy good health? It seems that yes, or at least that the reason declared by the OPEC+. From the organization They have expressed that there is a “good health of the oil market”, with low inventories and a global demand that remains stable. Giovanni Staunovo, UBS analyst cited by BloombergHe explained that “the market remains adjusted, suggesting that it can absorb additional barrels.” However, there are more reasons behind the scenes. According to Goldman Sachs bank has pointed out for Reuters that the measure is part of a broader strategy to normalize idle capacity and discipline the schist sector in the US. In this way, the entity provides that the eight countries will increase its collective production by 1.67 million BPD between March and September, with Saudi Arabia leading more than 60% of the increase. The threat of oversupply. In the short term, the market seems receptive. The same day of the ad, the price of crude rose slightly, challenging the most pessimistic predictions about the fall in demand. However, medium -term consequences are uncertain. The reality is that the market is currently “adjusted”, commercial tensions and The “Peak Oil” Chinese They could translate into a significant oversupply for the end of the year, especially in winter. The International Energy Agency It foresees a surplus of up to 1.5% of world consumption for the fourth quarter of 2025. In addition, some experts like Doug King, from RCMA Capital, They have remembered in Bloomberg that the “official” increase of the offer does not always equals real availability, since countries like Kazakhstan They keep breaking installments while Saudi Arabia presses for compensation to those who have overcome in the past. A possible domino effect. The OPEC+ decision impacts unevenly. For importing countries such as India or the European Union, the lowest prices of oil relieve internal economic tensions. But for producers outside the poster, the stage is more uncertain. The pressure on the American shale sector, highly dependent on prices above $ 60-65 per barrel, intensifies. Here enters the United States. Interestingly, this measure is also aligned with the political interests of Donald Trump, who has promised to reduce fuel costs to relieve the crisis of the cost of living. Your pressure on OPEC to increase production is well known, and its insistence on Apply tariffs and interest rate cuts could be tilting the balance in its favor. But there is another face: the American oil industry, one of Trump’s main economic and political bastions, It is also the most exposed. If prices fall below 60 dollars, many shale companies could see their profitability compromised. As Oilprice has pointed outdespite the current difficulties of companies such as Exxon and Shell, demand remains more robust than expected, challenging the collapse narrative for electric vehicles. However, the risk is clear: a new price drop could put in check to the United States’s own energy, which has already announced less perforations for this year due to the uncertainty of the market. Can Riad hold it? This is one of the big questions. Despite its apparent confidence, Saudi Arabia also faces internal pressures. According to the International Monetary Fundyou need prices above $ 90 per barrel to cover your budget. The economic reforms of the heir prince Mohammed Bin Salman, which include ambitious national projectsThey require sustained investments. According to Bloombergif prices collapse, Riad could be forced to cut public spending or even withdraw oil from the market to defend their income. A cyclical dynamic. This episode reveals a change in the OPEC+strategy: less emphasis on high prices and more focus on recovering market share, even at the expense of lower prices. As Oilprice has detailedoil remains a market subject to temporary swings, and large oil companies are better prepared to resist. But volatility remains the sign of time. The next chapter will be written on August 3, when the OPEC+ decides if it continues with the last stage of the planned increase, the oil market faces a key question: will the OPEC+ short -term pricing stability work in long -term influence? Image | Pexels Xataka | A new potentially disruptive scenario opens in global energy: China has touched the oil with oil

A Chinese firm has just presented a quadruped that challenges the limits. Boston Dynamics no longer has a clear path

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In a world where the focus seems to be in humanoids as Tesla optimus or the ‘nurse’ robot that already works in a Taiwan hospitala new generation of machines is winning its place. They are fast, resistant and are beginning to show that they can do much more than impress in videos. One of them has just run 100 meters as if their future depended on it, and is Chinese. Quadruped robots also compete. For years, the conversation about advanced robotics has been monopolized by biped figures. Robots that move as humans. But there is another way: that of robots that do not try to imitate us, but overcome ourselves in other areas. The quadrupeds, for example, have been demonstrating its usefulness in difficult terrain, repetitive tasks and, now also, in speed tests. A challenging career. It was just a moment, but it didn’t go unnoticed. How global aims aimduring a live broadcast of Chinese state television, a four -legged robot aligned on an athletic track prepared for something unusual: a 100 -meter race. When the stopwatch was launched, Black Panther II did, the new robot developed by the startup Mirror Me. He completed the route in 13.17 seconds, which is equivalent to an average speed of 7.6 m/s. In that same test, the robot sensors registered a peak of 9.7 m/s, and the company claims to have reached 10.9 m/s in previous internal tests. If that data is confirmed, we would be facing one of the fastest quadrupeds. Is it the fastest in the world? It depends on how you look. The figures invite to breastfeed, but it is always key to put them in context. Black Panther II reached 10.9 m/s in an internal test, which is equivalent to about 39.2 km/h. During the televised race, the registered peak was 9.7 m/s (34.9 km/h). Both figures exceed the official Wildcat,That according to the Boston Dynamics website reaches 30.6 km/h. For its part, the robot Cheetah – also from Boston Dynamics – reached 45.6 km/h (12.6 m/s) In laboratory tests. The demonstration, collected in an official video, was made on a running tape with external food and physical support to maintain balance. Even so, the data remains the highest technical reference registered by a quadruped. With that data, Black Panther II would be below the Cheetah – at least in tip speed – but clearly above Wildcat. In other words: it is one of the fastest quadrupeds ever built, although its brands have not yet been officially certified. For now, the formal title is maintained by the Hound robot, of the Advanced Institute of Science and Technology of Korea, which completed 100 meters in 19.87 seconds (about 18 km/h), As stated in the Guinness book. A young startup with very clear ideas. Mirror’s story didn’t start a long time ago. The company was founded in May 2024 in Shanghai by a group of professors and graduates from the University of Zhejiang. One of the founders is Jin Yongbin, a researcher at the Institute of Innovation in Humanoid Robots, while his partner, Wang Hongtao, is a university professor with trajectory in advanced robotics. In just one year, this startup has gone from developing robotic arms and mechanical hands to compete publicly with companies such as Boston Dynamics. Beyond the Black Panther II, Mirror already works on new prototypes. Among them, a fast bipedo in 2026 and a humanoid that, according to their plans, could act as a personal assistant for the year 2030. Images | Mirror me In Xataka | Elon Musk has updated Grok to look so much to him that AI is having hallucinations: Elon Musk is believed

ios 26 has a very hard path ahead

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Apple celebrated its WWDC 2025one in which the Redesign of iOS was even above artificial intelligence implementations. At least, as far as speech is concerned. Liquid Glass It is the new interface shared among all Apple operating systems, starting from the design language we saw for the first time in Vision Pro. iOS 26the operating system of iPhonehas been updated in your beta for developers. And a server has been testing it since yesterday. I’m going to tell you what I found in This first betaone with a lot of work ahead and that sets the foundations of a new era for Apple. One in which curves come. Liquid Glass in iOS 26 Blocking screen notifications are practically illegible, for the moment. iOS 26 has completely changed the design we had in iOS 18and absolutely all the elements of the interface are starring transparencies. When it is more or less aesthetic I will not enter, it is subjective. What leaves no mistake is that … There is a serious problem with contrast. It is a first version, but Apple has a challenge ahead with transparencies: readability The elements of the blocking screen and notification screen, if we have a clear background (the one that comes by default), present important readability problems. It does not depend on having a more or less large panel, it is barely seen as soon as the notification lands in a darker element of the wallpaper. If it falls to a darker area, the improvement visualization (something). That the elements of the UI have the transparent edges do not help, that absolutely everything is transparent, does not help. This is the first beta for developers, so it is convenient to be cautious. The first Dark theme implementation in iOS was simply terrible. Now it works perfectly. Which We are seeing right now is the sketch on which Apple is going to workand these readability problems, at least on paper, should be resolved. I am especially concerned with Glow that have the edges of some apps. This brightness is sought, but ends up achieving that apps with white background are perceived quite blurred and little defined. Apple will have to seek balance between respecting this new visual identity, and that everything is readable under any circumstance. The redesign affects all native appswhich now have a dynamic bar at the bottom. Perhaps, too dynamic, to the point that the camera app seems completely broken when you open it, and you have to be you who intuits that, sliding on the photo icon, the rest of the options are displayed. Very little Apple, even for a first beta version. The system is loaded with details, such as the remaining load time in settings (it does not appear on the lock screen, as on Android). On the positive side, There are very careful elements: sickly refined animations, improvements on the blocking screen with the automatic adaptation of the clock to the main element and, although it is missing, a cohesion at the level of native apps and system that was not so deep before. The animations are half cooking, there are broken elements in the interface, and it shows that everything is still quite green. It is not something that worries me in excess, it is the first beta for developers of the greatest design change in the history of the iPhone. An AI that continues behind its rivals Do not expect great changes in Apple Intelligencebecause there are no. Screen recognition through chatgpt does not work yet, the news to generate Genmojis in Image playground They are insignificant, and automatic translation does not work for the moment, it is frozen. Yes I have been able to try the new call filter, one that comes to compete with Google’s and that is much more aggressive. Apple filters absolutely all unknown calls: Siri pauses them, ask who he is and what he wants, to show us later. Only there we will decide whether we want to take the phone or not. It is a solution that ends radically with spam, but that kills gunflows. There is nothing of Google’s intelligent detection, just an aggressive filter that ends all the calls of numbers that we do not know. If we have any urgency or the person who calls us is special has a hurry, we can end up losing the call in the process. The key in Apple’s AI is working locallywith its own model that does not need a constant cloud connection. Apple will open these Apple Intelligence tools to third parties so that developers can use them in their apps, always running in local models. His second big point is silence. Apple wants AI to be there to help us in day to day, not to modify by system elements. It is a discreet implementation, although insufficient. Nothing that Apple has presented is new or exclusive: Google and Samsung have leading the AI ​​career in mobiles for more than two years. The translation of calls live, the call filters (although less aggressive), and functions with which Apple does not have the audio draft, navigation assistant or sharing screen with Gemini Live (the assistant sees the screen in real time and interacts by voice, not only text) in models such as the Samsung Galaxy S25they show that Apple is still far from the throne. Apple continues to the defensive Apple has decided to follow a strategy in which its AI controls the everyday, and the advanced is subcontracts to companies such as OpenAi. The changes that, at some point, They will arrive in Sirithey are drawn as something irrelevant at this point. We already know what Apple’s position is with AI, and makes some sense. The problem is that it is not an AI that comes to win. And Apple seems to be clear that this race is no longer yours is worrying. The local approach is plausible, but not enough. Regarding the change of design, my point in this … Read more

Spain made the subsidies covered to Ryanair an art. Now another country follows its path: Morocco

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Ryanair will stop offering 800,000 places This summer of 2025 in Spain. It was an announcement that fell like a bomb in the middle of the dispute that government and airline have open in relation to the rates that Aena charges the companies that operate in their airports. According to Ryanair, Las Aena rates They are abusive and from the company that manages Spanish airports they defend themselves ensuring that they are essential to guarantee, among other services, the security or cleaning of the facilities. The problem is that Aena had these frozen rates from 2021 and thus had to remain until 2026. However, last year they rose and although The CNMC frozen the rate againnow companies pay 4.9% more than before. In the middle of the dispute, Ryanair was also fined by the State for breaching, in his opinion, the regulations of the hand luggage. Together with other low-cost companies such as Vueling, Norweigan, Easyjet or Volotea, the Irish company was punished but it was also the one that took the worst part: a sanction of 107.78 million euros. This cluster of circumstances led the company to press where it hurts the most in Spanish air mobility: Provinces airports. Ryanair announced that he partially abandoned the airports of Vigo, Santiago, Zaragoza, Asturias and Santander. But, above all, he announced that he was completely left by Jerez and Valladolid. The movement has not been there because In its February statementRyanair already announced that he considered taking action in the same direction if the context did not change. A threat that has recently reiterated. However, then Eddie Wilson, his CEO, already pointed out that “Aena’s decision not to encourage airlines to use the missed capacity of their regional airports has forced Ryanair to relocate aircraft and capacity in more competitive European markets, such as Italy, Sweden, Croatia, Hungary and Morocco, where governments encourage actively growth. “ Now we check the consequences. Empty seats “Ryanair’s airplanes They will attend where there is business opportunity, whether by direct market or by public subsidy. “This is how Víctor P. currás summarizes in The Faro de Vigo The situation with which they have been found in the Galician city with the 61% reduction of the activity of the Irish company in its city. When Wilson pointed out that they would fly to countries “where governments incentive” did not lie. Ryanair has closed a line between Vigo and Barcelona that maintained an average occupation of 90% in favor of a New route to Morocco where just 9% of the seats are busy. These flights are those corresponding to the route that Ryanair has opened with origin in Madrid or Lanzarote and destination Daklha, a Moroccan city in the Sahara that is trying to promote itself as an active tourism. It is another measure within a project you want Transform the city into an economic complex reference in the area. The intention is to turn the city into a showcase for the world during the 2030 World Cup (What Morocco shares with Spain). This is the reason why Ryanair flies with such a low occupation to the Moroccan city. Fatim-Zahra Ammor, Minister of Tourism of Morocco, announced the arrival of the company A few months ago. Behind, obviously, a juicy subsidy in the form of an advertising contract for Ryanair. They collect in the Galician environment that the occupation rate has been poor. The best data has arrived from Madrid with just over 50% occupation. However, the reserved places have been deflating on the Route of Lanzarote to the point of not even reaching 10% of the total offer. This way of acting is nothing less new. In fact, in eldiario.es They explained well that the subsidies camouflaged as advertising contracts to keep the routes in provincial airports alive are a constant for years. By suppuerto, Ryanair has benefited in this way to act. Three examples. The Cantabria government delivered 18 million euros in public promotion to Ryanair. Vigo maintained a route with London in exchange for a disbursement of 625,000 euros in the form of an advertising contract. With the suppression of this connection, Vigo wants sanction the airline with more than 17,000 euros for breaking the contract unilaterally. In 2019, Ryanair maintained routes in Spain by value of 239 million euros of public moneyaccording to ELECONOMIST. Ryanair now applies in Morocco the same formula he has applied in Spain. The company has used Spanish airports in the provinces to press and, aware that New aircraft will not reach them In the short term, these advertising contracts are especially juicy when reorganizing their routes. Photo | Nastya Dulhiier In Xataka | Ryanair does not “fine” if you lose your flight: simply relieved you in the following for a cost of 100 euros

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