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It is no longer necessary to pay to transform our photos into what we want. The latest Google offers it for free for everyone

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Edit images has become routine: to surprise in networks, to Try a new style or to rescue old photographs They keep memories. In classic filter apps stores with bets for artificial intelligence. Many are paying, others pay below what was promised. Google can be about to change that balance And, this time, with a difficult argument to ignore. The novelty comes integrated into the app of Geminiboth on mobile and on web. According to Googleits engine, based on the latest Gemini models, not only generates from text: it also edits real photos with instructions in natural language and chained steps, from changing the background to replacing objects or merging two images into one. The company presents it as its highest quality image tool to date. The jump is not in new creations from scratch, but in the photos we already saved on the reel The focus is not so much to create posters from scratch and in Transform the everyday. Try a different haircut, carry a novel aesthetic, turn a selfie into a Gothic version or emo, add that backpack that you forgot in the shot, move to another landscape or combine two photos for a coherent composition. The promise is to maintain the recognizable features of the subject, a critical point in which Google claims to have improved against usual distortions. The experience is conversational. You upload a photo, write what you want and see the result; If you don’t convince, you ask for adjustments. Nothing to use traditional tools. Everything flows at a blow of textual requests. For the general user there are two keys. The first, availability: can be used in the Gemini app for iOS and Android and also in the web version. If you are creator or developer, the service appears on Google Ai Studio. The second, price: Free access to test and edit images without subscription. The same portrait, four different styles. The Gemini generator plays with color, texture and shape without leaving the app There are also limits. Although demonstrations teach convincing results, there are still scenarios that challenge any model: precise typefaces, very fine details or tiny faces in complex scenes. Fidelity to the original improves when concrete changes are requested, but not always right. The practice advises iterate, adjust and check the full size result. From neutral portrait to three different fashion decades. Gemini plays with aesthetics and time as if they were filters In security, Google insists on the safeguards. The images generated They incorporate visible water brand and a mark embedded by techniques such as Synthid to indicate its origin with Ia. They are measures aimed at stopping an obvious risk: the more realistic these tools are, the easier it will be to manufacture deception. Skater, two miller or classic. Gemini’s generator makes a common photo a parade of personalities The interesting thing about Gemini is how natural it is to try styles without touching a complicated editor. You can ask for “Make me Y2K version” and see how the selfie is transformed with silver chains and two milea fashion prints. Or write “convert this photo into look skater” to make caps, wide sweatshirts and that aesthetics of urban park. The same portrait can also become elegant with a “beam that this photo is preppy”, keeping your features but completely changing the air of the scene. The before and after the same image: Google’s AI repairs, color and rescue (or invents) the lost details Those who want to restore the family album, the option to recover old photosincluding collecting in a single instruction, provides utility and emotion. For creators, the possibility of mixing images, conserving faces and repeating styles offers a powerful advantage. The edition with AI moves to the day -to -day layer, and Google does not arrive alone. Competes with other proposals, such as Chatgpt, Grok, Midjourney, Qwen and even adobe. The good news is for users, which we have more and more options at our disposal to achieve our editing goals, and in a way, give free rein to our creativity. Images | Google In Xataka | Deepseek put China on the AI ​​map. The danger is that this revolution stays in a day flower

Spacex is on its way to having more money than NASA. He has succeeded, in part, because he does not pay taxes

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A few weeks ago, Elon Musk made public that Spacex’s income They were on their way to exceed NASA’s annual budgeta milestone that showed the spectacular commercial success of Starlink. Now, an investigation of the New York Times has revealed the least known face of that success: Spacex has been not paying taxes for more than 20 years. The other type of engineering that Spacex makes. Although it is not obliged to present results, because it does not quote on the stock exchange, the company’s internal documents show that Spacex accumulated almost 5.4 billion dollars in tax losses Until the end of 2021. Thanks to US fiscal legislation, these losses can be used to compensate for future benefits, which in practice means that Elon Musk’s company has avoided the payment of billions of dollars in federal taxes on income. The situation is even more favorable for Spacex since 2017 for a change introduced during the first presidency of Donald Trump, which eliminated the 20 -year limit for the use of tax losses. This allows Spacex to apply almost 3,000 million dollars of its losses against future benefits indefinitely. A company that grew with public money. The paradox that is most commented on these days in the American press is that Spacex owes a good part of its growth to NASA contracts and the United States Department of Defense, among other government agencies. Some of these contracts were crucial at the beginning of Spacex. According to an analysis of Washington PostElon Musk companies have received at least 38,000 million dollars in public contracts, loans, subsidies and tax credits in the last two decades. In the case of Spacex, which was founded in 2000, almost all its income came from federal contracts until the arrival of Starlink. In 2020, almost 84% of its income, a figure that in 2021 stood at 76%. The golden eggs. With Starlink, the SpaceX business is more buoyant than ever. The satellite Internet network has more than 6 million subscribers and has become the main source of income of the company, surpassing the rocket division. Thanks to Starlink, Spacex plans to enter 15.5 billion dollars in 2025, a figure that is dangerously approaching the annual NASA budget, which by 2026 is estimated at 18.8 billion. This growth has triggered the SpaceX assessment up to 350,000 million dollars, making it the largest non -quoted company in the United States. But you can still use those tax losses to be exempt from paying taxes.

It turns out that in the US people pay more for not having a taxi driver. The added value of going silently offers and works

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According to The data Offered by OBI, an app that offers real -time prices on the different taxi and transport services in the United States, Waymo’s autonomous cars They cost average $ 20.43 by journey compared to 14.44 of Lyft and the 15.58 of Uber. Even so, users are willing to pay the premium for traveling without a driver. The conquest of the robotaxis. The analysis of the platform, based on almost 90,000 real trips in San Francisco, reveals that Waymo It charges up to $ 11 more than its competitors at peak hours. However, the demand does not stop growing: the company already makes 250,000 payment trips a week in its first four cities where the service is available. Everything indicates that users value both the experience without driver than are willing to pay a good amount of more for her. Waymo weekly paths in California. Image: Nat Bullard Data Different pricing model. Waymo operates with a more basic system of pure supply and demand, while Uber and Lyft have refined their algorithms for more than a decade. Robotaxis have a fixed fleet that grows slowly, which generates greater variability in prices. Short paths They are especially expensive: Less than 1.4 kilometers can cost about $ 26 per kilometer, between 31% and 41% more than competition. A strategy that works. Surveys show that 70% of those who have tried Waymo prefer to travel without driver. Almost 40% are willing to pay the same price or more, and 16% would agree to pay up to 10 extra dollars per trip. The key is in that “personal bubble” offered by the autonomous car, where the client can travel comfortably without human interaction. And this attracts many. Safety first. Despite the enthusiasm, 74% of respondents Consider Security His greatest concern about robotaxis. About 70% believe there should be some kind of remote human supervision during the paths, something that It is already practiced usually in the sector. Lower deployment and expansion times. Waymo Atlanta has just entered and soon it will arrive in Miami and Washington DC. It is collecting data in Las Vegas, Dallas, San Antonio, Nashville and New Orleans. The entry process in new markets is accelerating: now it takes only between one and two years since mapping vans arrive until customers can get on board one of these vehicles. And in Europe we are also at all. And from 2026, we will begin to see the first circular robotaxis through the United Kingdom and Germany. The surprise is that It will be Lyft, in collaboration with Baiduthose that seem to take the lead to this side of the puddle. Cover image | Waymo In Xataka | Tesla Robotaxis have been programmed to drive as a human. So when they see the police hit a brake

tourists no longer want to pay them

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“There are tourists who now ask for an orange juice and take it among five people.” The phrase He is from a hotelier of the center of Soller, in Mallorca, one of the great tourist enclaves of the island, and reflects well the situation with which the bars and restaurants of the region are being found: tourists arrive, but they do it with less bulky and less arranged portfolios and less willing to leave four euros for a coffee. Other restorers in the area regret that they are increasingly with more visitors who pull super and prepare their own food. The sector It does not hide Your concern. What happened? That Spanish tourism, a sector that has been (at least from the pandemic) getting used to news about growth, record data And upward invoices, he is giving worrying signs in one of his bastions: Mallorca. In May the employer of the hospitality industry He already warned that the first quarter of the year had been closed with a widespread revenue drop that moved between 10 and 20%. And since then the situation It does not seem to have improved. Why’s that? A quick search arrives on Google to meet news in which the hoteliers of one of the most emblematic destinations in the region, Port of Sóllerthey lament the panorama with which they are being found in the middle of summer, just when their businesses should go stern. “We have gone from not having workers to be over,” confesses to Diario de Mallorca The owner of two restaurants that has had to do without five employees. “The queues of other years are not seen anymore. The last ones I remember were in Holy Week. It does not look good and those who will be harmed will be the workers, especially since next season,” The hotelier insists. “This is a rebound effect after the madness after Covid. We will return to the situation we had before the pandemic, but with much narrower margins.” Is it the only one who thinks like that? No. eldiario.es has published A similar chroniclewith similar complaints from other businesses of the Serra de Tramuntana. One of them, for example, ensures that more than a matter of quantity, of the number of tourists who come to Sóller to enjoy their vacations, it is a problem of habits. People arrive with the most tight portfolio. And less willing to exceed expenses. “More than in the number of tourists, (there is) a change in the type of customer you consume and in the amount you consume,” says the person in charge of a bar. “The volume of people who come to Sóller continues to be the same, with more or less fluctuations every 15 days. But what has dropped is the consumption in bars. People are spending less and that shows,” Explain to the newspaper another hospitality hostess. “Now they ask you for an orange juice (6.5 euros) and take it between five.” The trend collides with a tourist profile that until not so ago was willing to pay four euros for a coffee or more than 25 for the menu of the day. But … What do the data say? Those of CAEB They draw a little flattering panorama. According to Your calculationsthe sector suffers a ‘puncture’ in its turnover between 6 and 8%, a fork that in some restaurants would rise from 15-20% or even reaches 30% in specific cases. Its president, Juan Miguel Ferrer, is blunt and esteem that in eight out of ten stores sales will fall this year. Interestingly and although the sensation can be that the city is crowded, one of the most affected areas is the center of Palma, where the fall reaches 8%. What is the problem? The hoteliers summarize it with a single word: profitability. “The situation is very difficult. We are concerned about business profitability. Many cannot survive. We had not had such a bad summer since before the pandemic,” Ferrer insists In Tourinews. The president of CAEB ensures that last year closed 370 establishments and It is cautious on what the impact can be in the coming months. “We will have to see this year.” Ferrer remember That May was marked by the bad weather, June Mo was plethoric and now the businesses are with a decrease in the influx of customers, especially in Port Soller, Sant Elme and Port D´Alcúdia. “We have gone from being full to have occupations that do not exceed 60%.” The situation is not ideal on the Paseo de Palma. Again the issue is not that there are no visitors, but that they seem less given to consume in the restaurants. “They are known as sandwich tourists”, duck. What tells us the INE? Give other brushstrokes that help compose the painting. His latest data is May, but show that during the first five months of 2025 the annual variation rate among foreign tourists It has been positive In Balearic Islands. As for the flow of travelers and overnight, in June the INE record Increases with respect to 2024. For example, 1.86 million visitors in June 2024 went to about 1.89 million this year. Another interesting fact is the prices. In June the INE registered a year -on -year variation rate of 9.9 in the hotel price index of the Balearic Islands. If we consult the IPC table the annual variation between the set of restaurants and hotels of the archipelago is 5%percentage that rises 30% If compared to 2019. In general, the summer of 2025 usually occurs as the one in The most expensive hotel priceswith 50% increases from the beginning of the pandemic. What is that fall? The apparent ‘prick’ in the billing of the Mallorcan hoteliers is not understood without handling some keys. Both internal and external. Among the last ones is The economic situation from Germany, a crucial market that does not go through its best moment, and the growing competition of other cheaper destinations. One of those who … Read more

There is so much fever for the Xiaomi Yu7 that there are already those who pay more for buying one used than for a new one. And it makes sense

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The fever by the Xiaomi Yu7 has reached its climax: it is already paid more for the electric SUV sold as a “used” than like a new car. The waiting list is so wide that the bubble has swollen to unsuspected limits. Not only is the mirror of an excessive demand. Used, yes, but more expensive. Specifically, about 2,400 euros. That is the area that those who aspire to have tomorrow (in China, of course) have to pay a Xiaomi Yu7 In the garage, according to Carnewschina. The specialized medium collects that there are up to 80 ads in vehicle sale stores where Xiaomi Yu7 is sold above the market price as new. Specifically, the profits is between 1,200 and 2,400 euros (depending on the version). The most coveted. Among the units that are sold, the most desired is the Max, which are generally offered with less than 100 km registered. Exit, The car had prices of 253,500 yuan (about 30,191 euros) for the Standard version, 279,900 yuan (33,335 euros) for the Pro version and 329,900 Yuanes (39,290 euros) for the MAX, the most powerful option. The more version has 101.7 kWh battery but it is not the option with greater autonomy. This is reserved for the Standard option which also has a huge battery (96.3 kWh capacity) but its power is lower, registering lower consumption. That, precisely, is the most attractive of the Xiaomi Yu7 Max, a car with an autonomy of 770 kilometers (according to the Optimistic Chinese homologation cycle) and a rapid power of 690 hp, an acceleration from 0 to 100 in 3.23 seconds and a maximum speed of 253 km/h. A business. That is, the most expensive option is registering overprices of about 2,400 euros. Or, what is the same, about 6% about its purchase price. It does not seem excessive but it is a pinch for those who made one of the company’s first reserves and want to do business or prefer the money to the car. But those who, of course, are doing business are concessionaires. They point in the Chinese environment to which a good part of the Xiaomi Yu7 overcrowded with respect to their output rate are concession automation. That is, these companies are playing with the usual margin and, right now, selling them more expensive than the company itself. Endless. The trend responds to the wide waiting list that Xiaomi faces when selling its cars. The fever for the electric SUV, the company’s second car, has led the brand to stop the reserves since the delivery of them has shot until 60 weeks in its Standard version. That is, about a year and two months. Pro and Max options offer better waiting times. But not much better. For the Xioami Yu7 Pro you have to wait between 49 and 52 weeks and for the Max between 39 and 42 weeks. That is, the delivery of the Xiaomi Yu7 Max has been almost 10 months. All this is a consequence of A wave of excessive reservations In the first hours. Before finishing the day of the presentation, Xiaomi registered 248,000 reservations in 18 hours. Of these, 200,000 were recorded alone In the first three minutes in which the page was open. Dragging the company. In Carnewschina They echoed another striking movement. The Xiaomi Su7 Yay had a really long waiting list but after relieving it slightly, the electric Berlina has re -delayed its delivery times. The company has decided to dedicate part of the current Berlin line to produce the electric SUV to try to balance the wait between both models. Again, the price of the Xiaomi Su7 was shot again in the second -hand market. To the point that the Su7 ultrathe most radical option rose up to 15,000 euros above of its rate price. Of course, there is no possible comparison with Yu7 because the latter has not yet announced a similar version. The risk. The greatest risk that Xiaomi faces is very evident: the tired of the client. China is the country where more electric cars are bought but also where competition is greater and The renewal time of the models is shorter. If Xiaomi fails to lighten the waiting list, it runs the risk of Your car is slightly obsolete In relation to the rest of the market and customers begin to flee to other brands. To solve it, the company works for forced marches to expand its factory for electric cars. For the moment It already has two factories dedicated (one to each product although, as we have seen, that of the Xiaomi Su7 is also giving way to some SUV units) And you have another in progresswith the aim of being able to serve a demand that has the company completely overwhelmed. Photo | Xiaomi In Xataka | The Xiaomi Su7 self -imposed a challenge: to eat Porsche in his own land. And they just got it

“You can pay 150 euros to fix your air conditioning or you can do it yourself”: Scotty Kilmer, mechanic

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It is the song that returns to your head again and again. That, without any reason, comes to your head early in the morning, while showering. And that does not abandon you for days. And although the situation is more than known, and we know how it works, it does not cease to surprise us. A summer. And another. And another one. The same goes for air conditioning. Summer arrives and the air conditioners break. It is always at the worst moment and, almost always, it is because We have not looked at it well for the rest of the year. Without correct maintenance, car air conditioning cools for spring temperatures but is not enough to a heat wave. It is there when we demand most and, pum, it breaks. The Calvary arrives to look for someone who can repair a system that seems essential to travel on vacation. All this experience is well known by my partner Amparo Babiloni, who has left in writing Everything that has happened to him and how he has had to act. To prevent this from being repeated, the council is simple, short and direct: maintenance. Maintenance that we can do ourselves, which will take some time but that taking the appropriate indications can save us good money in the pocket. Do it yourself That is the message of Scott Kilmen, an American mechanic who with decades of work behind him has a YouTube channel with more than six and a half million followers how we can keep our car in the best possible state, some tricks to avoid and how to act in case of breakdown. In the video you can see in this link, explain what to do if your air conditioning does not cool enough. Something common when we have been making a timely use of it with temperatures softer. Among the tips that Kilmer provides is, in the first place, to replace the air conditioning filter. This filter is recommended to replace each car review but if you do not make it difficult to pass the cabin. Only this small detail will significantly improve the amount of air that arrives and the quality of the same. It is a simple operation And it usually has easy access, so we can change it without much difficulty for a handful of euros (less than 20 euros, generally). In addition, this not only has its advantages in summer, it is also especially useful for Avoid allergies in spring. Then, Kilmer proposes to improve the quality of the air we breathe. It is as simple as using An antibacterial product Since, as he explains, a dark and humid place such as the cooling system of a car has everything so that bacteria and microbes are developed that fall from the air we breathe. Especially if we live in a wet zone. With the air lit at full performance, select the air inlet outside. Now, Kilmer recommends going to the air intake under the hood and spraying it with the antibacterial product to reach all corners of the system. He also recommends throwing it overnight and letting him act without fear until the next day. Finally, if all this has not ended by solve the matter We only have to recharge the air conditioning gas. In that case you have to buy a Compatible with pressure gauge and apply it to the low pressure system. The pressure gauge is important because it will give us an immediate response of system pressure. While it is green, says Kilmer, you can continue adding gas and we must stop if it reaches the red zone. In spite of everything, remember that these are more or less simple tricks that require a minimum of knowledge. Each driver is the one who must value whether or not it is worth investing money in a professional mechanic. Photo | Magnus Östberg In Xataka | Solving one of the great debates of the summer: if the car consumes more with air conditioning or not

Let’s pay more for diesel

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Spain will receive 23.9 billion euros from Europe in the fifth section of European fund aid. It would be greater if they had unlocked each and every one of the requirements that Brussels has imposed on Spain. As if it were a video game, each milestone achieved had its reward in money. And uploading diesel taxes was one of those unnegotiable issues. 1.1 billion euros. That is the money that Spain will stop receiving a package awarded from 23.9 billion euros which is part of the fifth section of aid provided by the European Union within the framework of the Next Generation funds. To receive the funds, Europe forced various reforms. Two of them have not been fulfilled. The first is the one that has to do with the interim who Europe wants to become fixed workers but that do not swell the official’s lists. The second was a tax reform that contemplated a rise in diesel taxes. Failure to comply with both reforms has left Spain without 1,100 million euros. What do we pay? Europe has been pressing time for the price of diesel to equal to gasoline. At least in its tax section. That means that Spain should eliminate the subsidy that this fuel has in the section of the Special Hydrocarbons Tax. Right now, the figures are as follows: 98: 431.92 euros/1000 liters or 0.432 euros/liter gasoline. No lead gasoline 95: 400.69 euros/1000 liters or 0.401 euros/liter Diesel: 307 euros/1000 liters or 0.307 euros/liter. To this stretch of the tax we must add the autonomic that, since 2019, is linear in 7.02 cents/liters. This leaves us a special hydrocarbons tax of: 98: 0.504 euros/liter gasoline. 95: 0.473 euros/liter gasoline Diesel: 0.379 euros/liter. To these figures you also have to add VAT. As this is 21%, the impact will be greater the more expensive the fuel is. That is, in a liter of gasoline more money is collected in VAT than in one of diesel. According to the latest European bulletinin Spain we pay on average the liter of diesel to 1,425 euros/liter. No taxes would be 0.799 euros/liter. That is, 56% of what we pay in a liter of diesel are taxes. Match diesel. Despite this, the great objective of Brussels is to match diesel and gasoline taxes. This fuel is marked from Europe because its pollutant emissions They are more harmful for human beings than those of gasoline and therefore promote measures to reduce their use or get them out of the center of cities. To reduce their use and pressure drivers to look for cleaner alternatives, since Europe they have insisted on equalizing taxes. This would raise the price of diesel in almost 10 cents/liter, ending its competitive advantage in gas stations. I do not do it. Obviously, uploading the price of diesel has an obvious political cost for society. In April, Europe gave an ultimatum to Spain. He had to reach an agreement to raise the diesel or the funds would be frozen. The threat resonated more strongly after November 2024 It would slide from the government that had already reached an agreement to rise to 11 cents the liter of diesel (match the special hydrocarbons tax and the relevant percentage update with VAT). That agreed tax reform He never materialized. It was a failure that arrived three years later from another announced up in 2021 That, as it can be intuit, ever occurred. But that was after the Coronavirus crisis and before the Ukraine War. The conflict gave a last truce. But even before, in 2018, Mariano Rajoy’s government He also torted the possibility to raise diesel taxes. In the end, that reform that was going to affect diesel resulted in a widespread rise of all fuels. The European pressure resulted in the harmonization of the rise autonomic section that It is applied since 2019. Those 7.02 cents/liter of those we have already spoken. 18 million cars. The resistance to implement these measures is not accidental. According to the Latest data collected by ANFACthe Spanish mobile park is made up of 31.3 million vehicles that remain active. Of these, 58.9% are cars moved by diesel fuel. That is, three out of five vehicles, more than 18 million cars still use diesel to move daily. It is the result of a few years 2000 where diesel came to accumulate a market share that seemed irreplacement. In 2007 1.6 million cars were sold in Spain. Of them, 1.14 million were diesel -moved cars. Photo | Daniyar Orazov and Xataka In Xataka | We thought that gasoline cars were much cleaner than diesel. We did not have the effect of the sun

What is and how to use Alibaba’s artificial intelligence without having to pay quotas

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Let’s explain What is and how to use qwenthe artificial intelligence model created by Alibaba. It is a large language model that comes to compete against Deepseek in Asia, and also passing against other giants in the sector such as Chatgpt, COPILOT either Gemini. We are going to start this article explaining what exactly Qwen is and what are the peculiarities of this model. Then we will pass to Explain how you can start using itsomething quite simple. What is Qwen Qwen is a generative model of artificial intelligence. Specifically it is a Great linguistic model or Large Language Model (LLM), of the same type as Chatgpt and the rest of the alternatives. This AI model has been trained to understand natural language. This is A multimodal AIwhich means that it is able to process and generate both texts and images, code and other elements. Come on, although its main function is to respond by text, you will also be able to ask you to draw and do other tasks. Qwen is too An open source modelthat you can download from specialized pages such as Hugging Face and Modescope, or use in those programs to install models of Artificial Intelligence on your PC. You can use it for free For personal use or research, although its commercial use is limited with restrictions for large companies. This is an important point. Open source models expose their operation, and allow you to use all your functions free Without having to pay quotas. Not all Qwen models are like that, but if you enter its website you can use it for free without problems, and you don’t even need to create an account. Qwen’s first launch was in the beta phase in April 2023, with the name of Tongyi Qianwenwith an internal architecture based on the Meta de Meta ai model. It was publicly launched in September of that same year after receiving the approval of the Chinese government, and in December its first open source models were created. In mid -2024, QWen 2 arrived, also with several open source models, and since then it has been making periodic releases with new innovations, such as QWEN 2.5 in January 2025, and Qwen 3 at the end of April 2025. In this last launch, they claim to have overcome Depseek’s performance. How to use Qwen The easiest way to use Qwen is entering its official websitewhose address is chat.qwen.ai. Here, you will have the option of log in, create an account or continue delightedwhich means that you can use it without having to register anywhere. Of course, if you decide to use it withdrawn, every little you will jump the window to log in, something that can be annoying, but you can keep telling you that you use it if you count. There are some functions that cannot be used without registering, for example, You can’t create videos as a guestyou need to be using an account. On the main screen of Qwen you have a painting to write the text with what you want to ask artificial intelligence. Below are your specific functionsto make concrete requests such as generation and video, images, generate code, summaries, writing aids and more. In the same text box you have A button to activate online searchas well as to use deep thinking modes. On the left there is a + button to attach files and work from them, and the right you can use your voice to make requests. Above left on the web you can choose different models, although by default the most advanced will appear. All you have to do is write to Qwen the question you wantor choose one of its functions and ask you specific questions or requests. Then, the AI ​​will begin to generate the answers immediately. Its operation is the same as that of other models and other artificial intelligence websites. As we have told you, you can also activate a specific function as the creation of drawing. Then, in the prompt that you write to him you do not need or ask him to do that, since he will recognize the function. You ask for what you want and the AI ​​will generate it at the moment. In Xataka Basics | Prompts pages: 16 free websites and communities to find ideas for your prompts and find advice to improve them

It is a masterpiece of the Spanish comic, but they had to discover ‘Paracuellos’ in France so that we would pay attention here

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It is unanimously considered one of the masterpieces of the Spanish comic: ‘Paracuellos’ by Carlos Giménez is genuinely (for his tone, for his graphics and, of course, for his theme) from here. However, It was not easy to find a hole in our bookstores. As if one of the stunted children of the work were, ‘Paracuellos’ was the result of an initial misunderstanding that forced Giménez to seek space in other markets. And then he returned in style. ‘Paracuellos’ is one of those capital works of the Spanish comic that is simple to find in any bookstore. He coda in that sense with ‘Maus’, with ‘Watchmen’, and within the national space, with Mortadelowith Superlópez and with few more, because the editorial world of comic in Spain is a continuous recycling of successes. But finding ‘Paracuellos’ is, for years, very easy: in fact, Penguin Random House has launched a total edition on the occasion of its 50th anniversary that collects all the volumes of this work in giant format. Their virtues are obvious From the first moment: above all, the exquisite drawing of Giménez, supernaturally endowed to provide overwhelming personality to his creatures, is already in 1975, when he began to create it, absolutely extraordinary. A lot of Children dressed all the same, but each with a very important personality Thanks to the looks, sad and naive, but very distinctive, with which they receive the designs of adults (educators, wardens, nuns, inspectors, family members, members of the phalanx). As a good heir to the tradition of the Españo and the Spanish Berlanguian cartoon, it is the portrait of a terrible situation but without humor disappearing completely from children’s lives. Children marked by fears of very diverse type (to be abandoned, to be beaten, to lose the few privileges that scratch among their peers -because they know how to draw, because they have a toy, because they know how to play football -), but at the same time they are unable to lose their innocence, which turns their adventures into experiences halfway between the endearing and terrible. And, of course, above any other value, there is the ruthless portrait, in the first person (We are not, yes, before a strictly biographical comicalthough in part it is) of an atrocious reality: The life of admitted children in social assistance homes during the Francoist postwar. Children of defeated in the civil war, orphans or families in extreme poverty, educated under the yoke of nationalcatolicism and the Falangist discipline. Hunger, punishments, loneliness, institutional violence … A portrait that, despite its crudeness is not lacking hope and tenderness. Liked more in France The first episodes of the series were published from 1975 in several Spanish magazines such as ‘Thank you very much’, ‘El Papus’ and ‘Yes’. They had a very limited success, so Giménez was forced to leave the work after the publication of only two albums. He told so For rtve.es: “No Spanish editor of the time wanted to publish them in their magazines. They were horrified to see those pages full of familic and sad children with those disproportionate eyes and those most disproportionate ears yet yet.” The absence of eroticism or humor for adults in ‘Paracuellos’ closed the doors in Spain, but In France he found an alternative route in the legendary magazine magazine ‘which began to publish it in 1976. A much more prone market to recognize the talent in the cartoon made it a success and from there jumped to other countries in Europe, similar success. 20 years later, in the late 90s, Giménez resumed the work with four more albums. In 2016 he would return to her again coinciding with the 40th anniversary of the series, with three albums that Finally they would conclude it. ‘Paracuellos’ remains, despite the wide parenthesis over time, and thanks to the integrity and quality of Giménez, as a total work, of a caliber that has made that Your candidacy is presented on some occasion to the Princess of Asturias de las Artes. It is an essential piece of our comic that, however, had to be recognized outside to start appreciating in your country of origin. Header | Penguin Random House In Xataka | The most famous superlupez has not long since existed: how Jan transformed him from parody to adventure

Tap to pay lands in Spain

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Apple has just announced the arrival of Tap to pay To Spain, available for all shops, suppliers of platforms and developers of payment apps. Caixabank, through the Global Payments merchant platform, will be the first to offer payments through Tap to pay to all its trade clients. What is tap to pay. Tap to pay It is a function announced in 2022 which allows to turn our iPhone into a TPV for payments without any additional hardware. Just perform the same process we would do with any dataphone: bring the card to the iPhone. Platforms like Stripe were among the first to join the proposal, adding compatibility with Tap to Pay in the United States. The function lands from today in Spain by Caixabank, open to integration into different platforms. What is it for. The goal of Tap to pay is to eliminate the need to have a TPV to make payments in shops. The operation is identical to that of traditional payment, replacing the dataphone with the iPhone. You enter any trade to make a purchase Prepare your credit/debit card, mobile or smartphone (any payment method via chip NFC) You bring it closer to the payment receiver, in this case, the iPhone instead of the TPV The transaction is completed Where will it be available. In alliance with CaixaBank, all Spanish Apple Store will have payment available via Tap to pay. Platforms like PayPal show video how simple it is to make payments through this solution. Apple opens the service today so that the different suppliers can implement it, so it is expected that we progressively begin to see Tap to pay in the businesses that want to adhere to this payment modality. Any company or autonomous may use the service to collect your customers. The advantages. Integrating Tap to pay has certain advantages against a traditional TPV. Only the compatible app and the iPhone are required, so at the portability level it is a victory against the dataphone. Apple also presumes privacy in this solution. The same technology that has been refining in payments through Apple Pay: every transaction is encrypted is used. Apple promises not to know what is being purchased or who is buying it, by not permanently storing card numbers or information about the transaction. What iPhone I need. To use Tap to pay we will not need a new batch iPhone. The new payment method will be available to all iPhone from the Xs From now on, as long as they execute the latest version of iOS (18). Image | Apple In Xataka | How to pay with your mobile: necessary requirements and main apps to do so

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