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Microsoft wants to preserve Xbox games and has chosen an unexpected path: officially emulate them on Windows

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The video game industry advances with a speed that does not always leave room to look back. New consoles arrive, stores are renewed and the physical format loses ground, while a part of the old catalog remains linked to systems, accounts and services that do not last forever. Who have tried return to a game from decades ago We know that keeping it does not necessarily mean being able to execute it. That is the point at which preservation stops being just a concern of archives and museums. In that context, Microsoft has chosen an unusual formula to recover part of its history: bring games from the first Xbox to Windows 11 without converting them into remakes or native versions for PC. The American firm assures that this launch marks the beginning of a broader preservation effort, although, as we will see, this is a limited test. There is also another detail that changes the magnitude of the announcement: the technical means by which these games can work on current hardware. Let’s see. For now, the program does not open the entire Xbox historical catalog nor does it allow you to run any old games on Windows. The starting point is not a broad collection, but four specific games with which Microsoft begins to convey a part of history from Xbox to Windows. The company has not yet detailed which titles will arrive next or at what rate the catalog will grow. For now, these are the ones chosen: ‘BLiNX: The Time Sweeper’ ‘Conker: Live and Reloaded’ ‘Crimson Skies: High Road to Revenge’ ‘Fuzion Frenzy’ As we say, what comes to Windows are not conventional remasters or adaptations remade game by game. As confirmed by Microsoft to PC GamerXbox uses emulation to reproduce on a modern computer the environment necessary to run software designed for its first console. This solution maintains the original gameplay, but allows improvements to be added such as VSyncup to four times resolution rescaling, anisotropic filtering and enhanced antialiasing. Users can also choose between full screen and windowed modes, as well as configure language and audio. The initiative is not limited to the desktop computer either. Titles can be installed on Windows 11 compatible portable devices, including ROG Xbox Ally and ROG Xbox Ally Xwithout necessarily depending on cloud gaming. Minimum requirements are modest for current hardware: 8 GB of RAM, a Core i3-8100, Ryzen 3 1200 or Ryzen Z2 A, and graphics equivalent to a GTX 950, Radeon RX 550, Intel UHD 770 or Arc A310. From a favorable perspective, the progress is difficult to ignore. Microsoft is prolonging the useful life of works that until now remained linked to Xbox hardware and its backward compatibility system on later consoles, and bringing them closer to players who may never have had those machines. The problem appears when we go from retaining access to retaining a copy. Microsoft has not announced standalone installers or versions without DRM, the system used to control and verify digital licenses. Nor has it detailed what checks these four games will require, how long they will be able to work offline or whether they will still be available for download in, say, ten years. We do know that your access depends on Windows 11, the Xbox app and a license linked to our account. It is an important difference compared to GOG, which allows you to download DRM-free backup installers and save the files to install without using your application. All of this occurs while the industry reduces independent avenues of access to its catalogs. Nintendo closed in March 2023 digital purchases of Wii U and Nintendo 3DS, although for now it maintains the possibility of redownloading the purchased content. Sony, for its part, has announced that he will leave to produce discs for all new PlayStation games from January 2028. These are two different decisions, but both remember that the availability of a digital work ultimately depends on the continuity of a platform and the conditions established by its owner. Images | Xbox In Xataka | Video game preservation has already been mortally wounded with Sony. The next blow comes from an entire country: Germany

30 years ago we laughed at China and Japan for their obsession with sun protection. Now we’re following your path

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If you travel to Qingdao or any other beach in China, you may come across bathers who, in addition to bikinis, sandals and glasses, look colorful ‘facekinis’. That’s how it was at least a few years ago (even in 2025), when this peculiar garment that covers the entire face to protect it from ultraviolet rays gained popularity in the middle of a heat wave. In Europe, the image of Chinese women with their heads in XL swim caps that only leave their eyes and mouth visible was interpreted as an eccentricityone more proof of the aversion of Asians to tan. On the beaches of Spain it may not be common see ‘facekinis’but an idea is beginning to sink in: cultural issues aside, Chinese, Japanese and Koreans may not have been wrong when they did everything possible to protect themselves from the sun. “It is very frowned upon”. The facekini It is its most obvious (and graphic) demonstration, but it connects with a much larger phenomenon: not everyone values ​​tanning in the same way. Vincent Coëffé, from the University of Angers, explained it a few years ago in an article published in The Conversation: The prospect of sporting a tan skin tone may sound great in California, but things are quite different if you talk to an Asian. “Light skin continues to be viewed favorably in Asian cultures (China, India, Japan, Korea…), to the point that exposing the body to the sun is perceived as a subversive act,” comment coffee, geographer and tourism expert. “In China, tanning is very frowned upon, especially if it alters the female body, particularly influenced by the ideal of ‘milky’ skin.” Tanning is becoming globalized and it is increasingly easier to find Asians sunbathing both abroad and on the beaches of their countries, but there is still an important cultural gap with respect to the West. Why the hell do they do it? These differences in sun exposure explain why for decades, in countries like Spain, we have seen with a mixture of fascination and incomprehension Asian tourists walking down the street in the middle of summer, fleeing the ultraviolet rays like the plague. It caught our attention that, in addition to caps and sunglasses, they wore gloveslong-sleeved t-shirts, arm warmers, sun-protective clothing and umbrellas. “Why does everyone use umbrellas on the streets of Japan? Is it very hot? Do they protect themselves from the sun or is it extremely hot?” I asked intrigued a traveler in August 2025 in the ‘Backpackers in Japan’ Facebook community. The person writing this had the opportunity to travel to Cairo a couple of years ago and one of the details that most caught his attention, in addition to the monuments of Ancient Egypt, was seeing Korean tourists with very white skin walking around with umbrellas and long dresses that covered their arms and legs. Nothing to do with us Spaniards who walked under the sun in shorts and t-shirts. Lesson in humility. In Benidorm, Malaga, Barcelona or any other beach destination in Spain it is still very difficult to meet someone with their face covered by a ‘facekini’, but it is just as undeniable that something is changing. It is less difficult to find people who opt for long sleeves and sun protection pants (even muffs) in the hottest moments and, above all, no one is surprised anymore when they come across people who cover themselves with umbrellas. We told you recently: it is increasingly common to see Spaniards walking at five or six in the afternoon in July umbrella in hand. Also parents who, before going to the beach or the river, dress their young children in sun protection shirts. Umbrellas, t-shirts and more. Umbrellas may be the clearest demonstration that we are changing our way of relating to the sun, but it is certainly not the only nor the most important one. A quick search in the newspaper library arrives to find interviews with experts determined to debunk hoaxes and who warn of the risks of sunbathing without protection, the threat of melanomas, burns… They speak because there is an underlying problem, but the fact that they do so also demonstrates a growing sensitivity. It’s not about changing our cultural perception of tanned bodies, but that the message of experts is getting through who warn that, when 20, 30 or 40 years ago we looked strangely at Asians who protected themselves from the sun at all costs, we were the eccentrics. What is ‘strange’ is not walking around with an umbrella and protective clothing on a July day at five in the afternoon. The ‘strange’ thing is deliberately punishing our body, with all the risks that entails. “The Sun is an electromagnetic radiation that, when it reaches our skin, will produce mutations in our nucleic acid, and these mutations can initially be canceled by our body,” already warned in 2016 Dr. Julián Conejo Mir, Honorary President of the Spanish Academy of Dermatology and Venereology. “Any person who goes to the beach every day develops skin cancer, but our defensive system, if it works, cancels it out.” Great, right? Half. We may no longer be surprised to see someone using an umbrella on a sunny August afternoon, but that does not mean that we have internalized what it means to sunbathe irresponsibly. What’s more, we even run the risk of trusting us and think that protective clothing or umbrellas are infallible tools to keep us safe from melanoma. It is clearly demonstrated by a recent study from Nivea Sun that leaves two percentages that invite reflection: 85% of Spaniards admit to being worried about the effects of the sun on their skin, but nevertheless a large majority (67%) also admit that they do not regularly use sunscreen. Another clear example is in the networks. Thanks to them, doctors can warn of the risks of lying for hours and hours in the sun without protection, but X, Instagram or TikTok also serve as a loudspeaker for people who … Read more

We have been thinking about a single path to Mars for decades. A group of scientists has just found a “shortcut”

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If you travel to the Moon It’s quite a challengethe next step is only for the brave. To date, no one has traveled to Mars and even unmanned trips encounter multiple drawbacks. The first of them is the duration of the trip itself, since it can extend up to 8.5 months, one way. Almost nine months of space route, with all the inconveniences that may arise during it. That is why the shortcut that a team of scientists from the State University of Rio Janeiro has just proposed is so interesting. With it, the trip could be shortened to 153 days, round trip. The key is in the asteroids. The authors of this study They have looked for shortcuts on the route to Mars in a quite interesting way: by noticing other travelers. After studying the trajectories of several asteroids, they have focused on those whose orbit intersects both that of Mars and that of Earth. Until now, the trajectories are designed from the Earth’s orbital plane. If the orbital plane of one of these asteroids, specifically 2001 CA21, is also taken into account, new paths are opened, which were hidden from our planet. One of those paths, according to the study, would drastically reduce the duration of trips to Mars. The asteroid is not a vehicle. It is important to note that this study does not propose using asteroids as a vehicle to Mars. They simply use them to open horizons to other trajectories. We from Earth see only a few “roads”, but asteroids like this have other options. By looking for connection points between the Earth’s orbital plane and that of these asteroids, it can be linked to these other routes, some of which turn out to be more direct. Traditional tours. Normally, to travel from Earth to Mars something known as the Hohmann trajectory is used. This consists of beginning to make a turn around the Sun in our own elliptical orbit; to, when the time comes, take advantage of its gravitational pull and extend the ellipse to the Martian orbit. Broadly speaking, the ship does not go in a straight line to where the destination planet is, but rather travels to where it will be at a given time. It is not a short trip, but with it, by taking advantage of the gravitational pull, fuel consumption is greatly reduced. Planned trajectory for ESA’s ExoMars For this to be carried out, launch windows must be taken advantage of in which the Earth, the Sun and Mars are properly aligned. All this lengthens trips a lot. A change of plane. The orbits of the different objects that revolve around each other are not all in the same plane. Each one has its own plan. Like a sheet of paper that is spinning. The Earth’s plane is not exactly the same as that of Marsbut very similar. That of the asteroid in this study, however, is very different and is much more inclined. That is why it allows us to open the window to new trajectories. As explained in Wired, It is something like opening a secondary window in a video game to see a scenario that we do not see in the main one. Multiple launch windows. Taking into account the need to have a proper alignment between the Earth, the Sun and Mars, there are soon three interesting launch windows to travel to the red planet: 2027, 2029 and 2031. By studying them one by one, the authors of this study saw that it is in 2031 when the best alignment with the plane of the asteroid occurs and, therefore, a much faster opportunity for travel. In the best case, Mars could be reached in 33 days. The complete trip would be 153 days, although in less optimistic cases it could be 226 days. Be that as it may, it is still much less than those 9 months, one way, that it takes now. Other asteroids. Although the study has been carried out with specific data from a single asteroid, these scientists believe that, in reality, the orbital planes of others could be taken whose trajectories also intersect with Earth and Mars. Basically, the key is to look outside the box. Or, much more literally, out of shot. There are many interesting routes out there. More powerful propulsion systems. All this sounds beautiful, but there is a big drawback that we must take into account. And, in order to carry out this process, much more energy is needed. Therefore, it would be necessary to resort to practically unfeasible quantities of fuel or to new, more powerful propulsion systems. Today this is not possible, so advances in this regard should go in parallel with the development of advances in propulsion systems. Many examples are already being investigated, such as the use of nuclear energy. Even has been proposed use lasers, although it is a project that is very much in its infancy. There is still a long way to go, never better said, but if the future is in these short and alternative trajectories it must also be in new propulsion systems that leave traditional ones behind. Image | NASA | THAT In Xataka | ExoMars, this is Europe’s most ambitious mission to Mars

Europe cannot be a “technological vassal of the United States”, and the CEO of Mistral is clear about the path

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Mistral is emerging as the pillar of European artificial intelligence. A few weeks ago we said that the French startup had raised another 830 million dollars to create AI data centers in Europe. Arthur Mensch is the CEO of the company and, for some time now, he is establishing himself as one of the powerful voices within the initiative of European technological sovereignty. His new warning is that Europe cannot be a “vassal state” of the United States and he has published a roadmap so that Europe leads AI. It won’t be easy. European swerve. There are those who complain that everything cannot be politics, but really politics is something that permeates many layers and the European turn in search of technological sovereignty has a lot to do with this. It is something that has coincided with the return of Donald Trump because Europe has realized that, between threats and the “I invaded Greenland”, can’t trust his ally. With American technology companies very involved in the ideology set by their Government, there is a demand for sovereign European alternatives that do not depend on American Big Tech nor how they may process your sensitive data. What happens with rockets, satellites, chips and even with Microsoft Office. And AI is no exception. Measures. That’s right where it comes into play. Mistral. As the greatest exponent of European AI (within the Generative AIsince we also have the suite from the Spanish Freepik as one of the most important companies in this field), Mistral and its CEO are voices with a certain weight when it comes to talking about what seems to be the only topic of conversation in recent months. And Mensch has clear that Europe cannot be a “vassal” of US technology companies. For this reason, they have published “European AI: a roadmap to lead it”, a long document in which it urges the institutions of the European Union to speed up procedures and permits to take advantage of its single market position of more than 450 million people and combine the talent of different countries at the service of AI. From European AI, of course. The premises are clear: Attract and retain talent. Unlock the full potential of the single market. Embrace European AI on all economic fronts. Empower Europe with critical infrastructure for AI. 80%. Each of the measures has a series of points that detail what the optimal way to proceed would be (according to Mistral) to achieve European leadership and stop depending on foreign technology. And one of the points to keep in mind is that Europe has the possibility of commanding, but it faces a devastating fact: 80% of the digital infrastructure continues to depend on non-EU providers. To put it down: if a ministry needs an office suite, turn to Google or Microsoft. If a hospital needs an AI, goes to ChatGPT or Huawei. If we limit ourselves to AI, Mistral estimates that only 20% of EU companies have adopted AI and that only 11% of SMEs take advantage of its potential. slap on the wrist to regulatory Europe. What they point out is that this situation makes us vulnerable to extraterritorial controls that put the strategic autonomy of the member countries in check. They defend that this roadmap is not a theoretical exercise, but rather something practical that is based on three key principles: Action over theory. Unity against the fragmentation of each of the governments. And the most important: the speed is questionable. We must find quick ways to attract talent and capital so that the most innovative in Europe are not left behind, trapped in regulations that take time. Ambition. They warn that it is something with potential not only for Mistral, but for the entire ecosystem, an ecosystem in which Mistral is already very, very well positioned. Part of the 830 million they have raised will go to their facilities near Paris where there will be 13,800 NVIDIA GB3000 chips (You can’t become independent from NVIDIA…), but it won’t be the only one. By 2027 they hope to have a €1.2 billion facility in Sweden with 23 MW of computing capacity. In total, they hope to achieve 200 MW of capacity by the end of next year. It is very, very far from China and, above all, from the United States, but although the distance is enormous, it is an important step. The B side of the matter. Now, everything has a twist, and the twist of this enormous amount of money is that this round is not venture capital, but debt financing. The main French banks have lent this money to create data centers and, while the risk capital is not returned, the debt is, and with interest. It doesn’t matter if Mistral’s move turns out well or not, even if the AI ​​bubble bursts: the banks that have lent the money expect to receive it with the aforementioned interest regardless of how business goes. It is an added pressure for the company, but also a sign that they trust in what they are building. In Xataka | ChatGPT’s milestone is not being a good AI: it is having become one of the biggest attention grabbers in history

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 .

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