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Instagram and Tiktok advertising has become short videos of people talking to a microphone. There is a reason: clippers

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You enter Tiktok and Instagram and you start seeing ads that (no longer) surprisingly have a great similarity to each other despite promoting a very different product: a startup, a podcast, an application or an event. The key, as the Wall Street Journalis the way to viralize content that these platforms have, which has resulted in the emergence of a figure to earn money working online, Clippers. Mom, I want to be older clipper. The Clippers They are editors who take the long contents of platforms such as YouTube, Twitch or Spotify and make them short viralizable content in Tiktok, Instagram Reels and YouTube shorts at the request (or not) of its creators. They also do the same with promotional videos of companies that want to increase the visibility of a specific product. Getting an attractive and effective video is not simple, but there is an ingredient that is almost always present, subtitles. There is Influencers farms and of clicksso there are also advertisements. You don’t have to have a big account. Nor generate videos to upload them to the corporate account of a client: companies pay in many cases because these editors upload videos to small accounts, but that also manage the contents thanks to FUncionation of algorithms. In addition, in the face of more advanced edition work, a clipper You can use online or free and powerful editing tools such as Capcut. There are even specialized platforms. WHOP is a platform for selling digital products and putting communities in contact. A kind of “app store for creators”. Before the rise of Tiktok, Shorts and Reels, the company identified that short clips were a bomb as viral advertising format, and created Whoop Clips, an ecosystem to contact brands and creators with Clippers. This activity is also promoted on websites such as Clipthis, YT Jobs or even In Reddit. There are also simple ads published as Tiktok videos. The explosion of these videos leads entrepreneurs as Pieter Levels (@levelsio) to offer video tools made with AI which generate subtitles using the Capcut subtitles API. In his day, Levels already said that All marketing around its apps and services would move to Tiktok After getting impressive results. Examples of 1x robot clips, Cluelly and the Smartphones nothing manufacturer The business model. According to the campaign, in whop between $ 0.50 and 5 dollars. He Wall Street Journal Speech reduces the maximum figure to about 2 dollars, dating examples such as Kanoah Cunningham, a former financial sector worker who now leads an eight team Clipperswith what generates monthly between $ 20,000 and $ 30,000 per month. Another case on the same line is that of Nathan Resnick, which pays $ 15,000 per month to about 50 clippers. Unlike what happens on platforms such as Fiver or Upwork, where a client pays an editor A fixed price for a final jobin whop there can be hundreds of Clippers making videos of the same ad and then upload it to small accounts. Only those who manage to obtain a considerable number of visits manage to make money. For others it will be lost time, so there is a strong incentive to optimize creations. The key to having a successful clip, according to Cunningham, is “building a story.” The numbers that explain the phenomenon. The brands, instead of paying an influencer for a video, manage to generate hundreds of clips and millions of low cost views. Roy Lee, founder of the Startup Cluely, states that “you are stupid if you are making a podcast of an hour and only public it in a channel.” His reasons to say it: 800,000 visits a day on Instagram and Tiktok. Max Peterson, who directs a clips market in Discord, directed a Tiktok campaign for the series’Adults‘which achieved 12 million visits in total. Peterson also says that a budget of $ 40,000, 1x technologies, the company after a Advanced humanoid robothe achieved 500 million total visits on the product on Tiktok. Yes, but. That the brands themselves want to see their video in hundreds of channels does not mean that Tiktok or Instagram will not mark it as stolen or copied content of others. So Clippers They have to work well how they cut their “creations” so that they do not eliminate their videos. Another problem of the practice of mass virality is that the veracity of the clips suffers at the will of the editor. According to Cunningham, it is often lie in the subtitles or a different meaning is given to the video looking for more visits. Image | EACH and Alpha film co In Xataka | A disturbing reality makes its way on social networks: we no longer use them to connect with friends

200 people paid to see a drone show in Valencia. The problem is that the event did not exist

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Shopping Tickets Online for an event that you have seen promoted on social networks and, when you arrive at the place and time where it should be held, there is nothing. This is what dozens of people have lived in Valencia, but it is happening in several areas such as the Booking accommodation or Airbnb. What happened. According to the complaint of an individual who collects the EFE agencyabout 200 people were on August 15 to the City of Arts and Sciences of Valencia to go to a drone show event. They had paid 17 euros for each ticket, a price with reasonable appearance. The problem? Although the complainant victim received confirmation notices of purchase of two tickets by SMS, when there was no festival or event of drones. Everything was the result of an online scam, the police told the attendees. And the worst part is that there has also been ticket sales for days 21, 22, 23, 29, 30 and 31. The medium. According to the complaint, the false event was promoted on Instagram, which boosted its reach despite the fact that the festival did not appear in any public calendar of place activities. For the scam, According to Drone Show Festivalwhich are event organizers (but free) with drones, used images and videos of their shows Attendees thought it was something real seeing that there are companies like FLOCK DRONE ART They are dedicated to this. The notice was not enough. Both Drone Show Festival and the official account of the City of Arts and Sciences sent messages in their Official channels warning that they were not organizing any drones festival in the complex. They did it on June 14 in the morning and in the afternoon, day and a half before the false event was celebrated. However, that did not prevent dozens of people from being gathered in full heat wave. Click the image to access the publication. More false events. The scam with drones is not thought only for Valencia. The promotional publication also announced events in Seville, Barcelona Madrid or Bilbao. From the Union of Consumer of Valencia, they affirm that They will denounce the facts before the National Court This week, as well as the General Directorate of Consumption of the Generalitat. They have called for affected people, and have offered to process the relevant claims for free. Online scams are triggered. According to the National Cybersecurity Institute (INCIBE), in 2024 More than 97,000 cyber attacks were recorded16% more than in 2023. The problem is that that year there were already Growing up 24% compared to 2022. According to the institution, in 2023, three out of ten incidents were online fraud. In 2024, they already supposed more than four out of ten. Of the 38,000 fraudulent indications, the Phishing It remains the most problematic technique, with 21,517 cases, and among the trends of public consultations by telephone or WhatsApp, the Vishingthat technique with which the attackers make calls supplanting various entities such as companies of light or telephone operators. Of the 38,000 fraudulent incidents, the itals for Protect ourselves from scamshow to avoid buying on websites that we do not know, for cases like this of the drones, where everything seemed correct a priori, the recommendation is to review additional details to those offered by the seller. Concert enclosures, theaters or events such as the City of Arts usually have a public calendar where all acts officially organized. Taking a look at the program is a quick step that can avoid a great posterior headache. If we have already been victims of a scam, It is recommended denounce the National Police, Civil Guard or contact the INCIBE itself. Images | FLOCK DRONE ART Y Northleg Official in Unspash In Xataka | Not happy with saturating email, spam and scams are now arriving at your postal mailbox

China has a huge youth unemployment problem. So much, that some people pretend that they work

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China and the European Union have one thing in common: the youth unemployment rate. 14.5% of young Chinese have no job, while in the European Union the figure is slightly higher, 14.7%. The difference, of course, is that about 448 million people live in the European Union, while in China there are more 1,400 million inhabitants. Not finding work feels bad to anyone, but in China both family and social pressure is huge. It is a very competitive market and the young man is expected to find work, do everything possible to find it: training, studiespractices, Temporary workswhatever. Not working or worse, not looking for work, has a negative impact on social perception. In that context, the emergence of a phenomenon of the most peculiar makes sense: pay for pretending you work. Image | Marc Mueller China and work. When a student graduates, what is expected of him is to work, be useful and not depend on the family. It is possible that this is not immediately possible. Some students can opt for a “Deliberate transition“(慢就业), that is, take a while while they form and explore options actively; others can do a postgraduate (考研) or study oppositions (考公); and others, access a temporary job, support the family business, etc., while looking for something more stable. It is expected, in short, that the job search is active and proactive. Not doing so has negative effects on social perception. Depending on parents without being contributing or looking for anything (啃老, we could literally translate it as “bite the old” or more Castilianized, being a Nini) is something that is frowned upon. But situations are not always conducive and, given social pressure, it may be easier to pretend than you work while looking for work than giving explanations. Image | Xataka Work looking for work. Given this complex social and labor situation, companies have emerged in some areas of China that rent a place to go to work when you have no job. One of them is intend to work Company, which for 3.5 euros per day allows access to a false office with computers, Internet access, meeting rooms, etc. Like a Coworkingmore or less. These companies are announced on social networks such as Xiaohongshu. And what to go? There are several reasons. BBC echoes From the testimony of Shui Zhou, a 30 -year -old person who goes to the “office” every day to do networking, train his discipline and, in some way, relax his parents. Right now he is taking the opportunity to improve his skills with AI. Others such as Xiaowen Tang, a newly graduated, 23 years old, pointed out because their university has a kind of unwritten rule: if you do not send your contract or proof that you are doing practices a year after graduate, they do not give you the diploma. He pointed to the company, took a photo of the office and used it as proof. Workers in a smartphones factory | Image: Xataka Another cantonous girl, whose identity remains in anonymity, left her job in 2024 due to the pressure of the financial world, explains to The country. He pointed to a false office because he does not dare to tell his family the truth. He started going to coffee shops, but for 400 yuan monthly he can go to a lie office to spend the day while looking for work. A shell. “To pretend that it works is a shelter that young people find for themselves, creating a slight distance with respect to the majority society and giving themselves a little space,” Dr. Biao Xiang, director of the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology in Germany in Germany, tells the BBC. The same thinks the owner of Pretend to Work Company, a 30 -year -old boy who affirms that “what I sell is not a job, but the dignity of not being a useless person.” As reported, 40% of its customers are recent graduates who need to try their tutors who are doing practices. Some also go to flee from family pressure. Others are autonomous or digital nomads that understand this space as a coworking. The Middle Ages is 30 years. The other face of the currency. Pandemia made a mella in youth employment in China, which in 2023, after years of employability record, was estimated at 46.5% According to Zhang DandanProfessor of Economics at the University of Beijing. So disastrous was the situation that Statistics were stopped. The country faces 14.5% youth unemployment, a figure that probably grows When the 12.2 million new graduates Try to enter the market. The pressure to get a job is such that, in recent years, a movement that pursues the opposite has emerged. Instead of being ambitious, reaching the extreme and doing work the central axis of life that Once the day 996 proposed (and Now it seems to be changing), The 躺平 movement, literally “lie down”, promotes the opposite: criticism of extreme competition, work just to fulfill, lead a slower rhythm of life, enjoy a little more even if that implies a work of less relevance or a lower salary. It is in China what we knew here as the Silent resignation. Cover image | Marc Mueller In Xataka | This worker promised them happy combining three jobs, until he made an error and in a matter of hours was unemployed

Chrysalis, the impossible ship 58 kilometers long to transport 2,400 people to next Centauri

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Exodus through space is a recurring theme in science fiction. It doesn’t matter if it’s literature (‘Aurora’), cinema (‘Wall-e‘) or video games (‘Mass Effect Andromeda‘), the idea of a huge ship that transport a lot of people that become inhabitants of a planet on the other side of the universe is as fascinating as utopian. But at some point you will have to get to work, and there are those who have had an idea: a 58 -kilometer ship for Bring Humanity to Alpha Centauri. His name is Chrysalis, and the duration of the trip will be 400 years. Chrysalis project. Within the ‘Project Hyperion Design Competition‘, a group of Italian social engineers, scientists and architects They have designed Chrysalisa ship of about 58 kilometers in length with a cylindrical and multicapa architecture. To simplify, it would be like a Russian, but elongated doll, with a concentric core and layers that would have differentiated areas for: Production. Life. Industry. Storage. Would have artificial gravity achieved by constant rotation of the entire cylinder and the idea is that it can transport 2,400 passengers to Next bthe most promising exoplanet of the system. There they would disembark and could start colonizing the territory after a 400 -year trip. Estimated construction time? 20 to 25 years. Layers. It would be like a huge city and remember The Line, the Saudi Arabia macroproject. Throughout those 58 kilometers and depending on the layer, areas destined for food production, forest biocservation, community areas with parks and facilities such as schools, hospitals or libraries, as well as habitable modules, industrial areas and an external ring dedicated to storage. The heaviest jobs would be operated by robotsand it will not be the only thing, since the plan includes a combined governance between humans and artificial intelligence. No cryogenization. Something that we usually see in these science fiction works is that the crew criotic so as not to die during the trip, but in the case of Chrysalis, there would be no option. Throughout those 400 years, several generations will pass, being a task for all those that fail to reach the goal. To avoid tensions due to the shortage of resources, births would be controlled to the millimeter, maintaining the population within the sustainable limit that the installation can provide. Recycling is contemplated as a vital option and, to give energy to the entire complex, nuclear fusion reactors will be used. Crew preparation. In addition to the fact that everyone who embark on Chrysalis will not see their new home on the mainland, it must be taken into account that virtually no one of those who embark on the mission at first will set foot on the ship. The reason is that it is estimated that one of the most crucial part of the trip, also the most radical, will be the preparation for it. In addition to having psychological support and having a careful strategy for 2,400 people to live in such an environment, before leaving the training will be given for 70 or 80 years In Antarctica. That first (and almost second) generation will face the conditions of isolation and extreme confinement that they will experience during the journey. It will be part of the second and third generation that, finally, are on their way to next Centauri b. Housing modules. There would be one and two floors Do not make illusions. Now, the ‘Project Hyperion Design Competition’ is an initiative with an objective: to seek a spacecraft capable of taking some thousands of humans to a habitable exoplanet In an interstellar trip of several centuries, so it is only a conceptual project for several reasons. The first could be ethical, since training will be devastating and, in essence, the entire trip is an evolutionary experiment with a large -scale controlled population, which means this Mental health levelidentity and perception of time. The second … because the technology to make it reality escapes our understanding right now. Only the fact of need Fusion reactors (that We are investigatingbut we have not yet developed), leave this experiment as something exclusive to the science fiction field. Although, yes, The document It is tremendously explained. Images | Canva (presentation of the project) In Xataka | It was not an extraterrestrial ship, but not a giant kite. We were totally wrong about 3i/Atlas

In the Aragonese Pyrenees there are more and more people camping and bathing in Ibones. Until the police arrived

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The Ibones de Anayet They are a natural treasure, small glacier lakes located in Sallent de Gállego, in the Aragonese Pyrenees. For biologists they are jewelry. For mountaineers resting places and recreation. That same beauty has nevertheless became its cross: as the ibones popularize in networks, they have been filled with tourists who They do not always comply laws, Cold without permissionthey bathe where they should not and even use drones to achieve the best panoramic. Now the authorities They have said enough. Rain of fines. In theory it was going to be a quiet weekend in the middle of the Aragonese Pyrenees, but ended up becoming a true fines. Between Saturday and Sunday the agents of the Seprona de Huesca, together with the agents for the protection of the nature of Aragon, carried out an operation in the surroundings of Sallent de Gállego that resumed with 86 sanctions. The reason? When they arrived at the Anayet Ibón environment, the authorities found 46 mountaineer tents that were violating the regulations. But what did they do? Camp “illegally”, Clarify The Aragonese government, who remembers that the hikers who settled in the environment did so without communicating their presence to the authorities or the Emergency Center 112 and their stores (46) were less than 100 meters from the Lake Security Strip. “Anayet’s ibón and its environment are part of a protected natural space, where camping is only allowed under certain conditions and with express authorization, with the aim of preserving the ecosystem and avoiding damage to flora, fauna and landscapes and environmental value,” insists The Autonomous Executive. An environmental jewel. The Ibones They are small mountain lakes of glacier origin located in the Aragonese Pyrenees that are distributed from the Ansó Valley to the surroundings of the Aneto. They include Anayet’s, Located formations in the municipality of Sallent de Gállego, province of Huesca. Their characteristics make them special spaces … and above all delicate. Hence the authorities are concerned about their saturation. “The problem is that one hundred people go to the same point, to bathe, to eat, to use cream creams,” warns in The Aragon newspaper Fran Gómez, Director of the Province of Environment and Tourism in Huesca. “It is forbidden to bathe in the Ibones, but also when using sun creams, oils are left to the water (…)”. Among other measures and to protect the environment, before making an excursion a “minimum documentation” is needed. @diariovasco The biologist Lorena Escuer denounces through her social networks the camping that had been installed in the Ibón de Anayet. It is an easily accessible enclave through Formigal ski slopes, in the Aragonese Pyrenees, with great beauty and with a delicate flora and fauna. Camping in this type of places is strictly prohibited as well as bathing in the cold waters of the Ibones. These types of prohibitions occur to protect the environment and keep it. 🎥 Lorena Escuer Formigal Pyrenees Pyrenees Aragon Iboneanayet imprudence surprise Aramonon ♬ Original Sound – The Basque newspaper – The Basque newspaper “A remarkable increase”. The weekend campaign, which resulted in 86 fine proposals, was not the result of chance. From the government admit Having proof that more and more people go to spend the night in the area, largely because of their popularity in networks and the promotion of certain companies. “The action has been carried out after verifying in recent weeks a notable increase in influx of people who spend the night in the area, driven by the dissemination of networks and websites of companies that, irregularly, offer stays and charge for camping without having the mandatory authorization.” “A huge speaker”. The excuses for the Aragonese Pyrenees and the visits the Ibón de Anayet are no novelty, but over time they have gained considerable fame. In Your interview with The newspaper, Gómez acknowledges that practices such as those that motivated the almost 90 fines of the weekend “proliferate on social networks” and have become increasingly popular. “It is very promoted and has become a boom. This weekend has been filled. Boca to mouth comes to where it reaches, but now the networks are a huge speaker that allows you to teach a spectacular place and with relatively easy access “, Reflect. A quick search on Google also reveals companies that offer free camping and excursion services in that same area. Is it something new? This weekend’s operation was deployed in a very specific context, after the end of July several meansneighbors and environmentalists denounced the saturation of the Ibones of Aragon. Recently a local mountaineer He reported for example a Today Aragon The stamp that was found when he arrived at Anayet’s Ibón: “18 tents, people bathing and flying drones.” The beauty of the environment added to your access, simple compared to other parts of the environment, have turned the lake, In his opinionin “free and prettier standards of the Pyrenees.” The hyper saturation of Anayet’s ibones He denounced her Also in networks the biologist Lorena Escuer, who in July warned of the presence of drones flying over the place, tents and bathers who dive into the lake without worrying about their impact on the environment. “These ibones are unique and fragile ecosystems, home of high mountain flora and fauna, some protected species. And yet here, at 2,200 meters of altitude, the dominant species in summer is the human,” he laments. Images | Mauri (Flickr) and Aragon Government In Xataka | Aragon’s ski stations are sentenced to death. One of them has had an idea: the biggest tobogan in Europe

It seemed that GPT-5 was going to be a resounding success. Until too many people missed GPT-4o warmth

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GPT-5 has not fallen standing. Forbes He collects user testimonies with name and face that, as they count, they cried when they learned that GPT-4O was being removed from the chatgpt model selector. And friends who vomited. What has happened. OpenAI GPT-5 launched on Thursday And he eliminated the previous models, including 4th, with no option to go back. Another very popular model also died, the O3 reasoner. GPT-5 apply reasoning or not, and choose more or less advanced specific sub-models, depending on the consultation and whether the user pays a lot, little or nothing. The answer was immediate and 24 hours later Sam Altman himself had to calm the masses saying that They were valuing to return 4th to the subscribers plus. In X and Reddit came the threats of cancellation of the subscription. Why is it important. This reminds us of an awkward truth of AI: technical performance is not everything. Many users have developed emotional links with specific models. With his tone, his rhythm, his way of “thinking.” GPT-4O I was reputed to be warm, conversational, playful. Openai had scheduled it with an “excessively flattering” personality, as they admitted later. A butler. GPT-5, designed to be less “servile” and more as “a useful friend with doctoral intelligence,” has been cold and mechanical for some. Between bambalins. The launch had more problems. The automatic routing system-which decides if an answer needs more time to “think”-failed for hours, causing GPT-5 to seem “much more dumb,” Altman said. There are also the already famous cheat graphs: during the presentation, Openai used poorly made data visualizations, with higher bars for minor values. The contrast. Something striking: OpenAi presumed improvements in reasoning and programming by pulling Benchmarksbut many users regretted the loss of something intangible: the emotional connection. The one that many have developed with concrete models and therefore makes it difficult for them to fit their loss: Openai made GPT-4O write his own obituary during Thursday’s presentation, something that his enthusiasts did not like. A few days before, hundreds of people gathered in San Francisco To celebrate the funeral of Sonnet 3model retired by Anthropic a few days ago. And now what. Altman has promised to duplicate the limits of use for Plus users and improve transparency on which model each consultation responds. The CEO has acknowledged that “they underestimated how much people imported some things that they like in GPT-4O, although GPT-5 works better in most aspects.” Admission, but with recoven. The long-term availability of GPT-4O will depend on the real use that users give it. For now, Plus subscribers have the best of both worlds: GPT-5 for maximum capacity, GPT-4o for when they want a voice that is more familiar and pleasant. Openai has learned a lesson for the bad ones: a great technological can hardly change something with which millions of people interact daily without causing a rebellion. Especially when they develop a personal relationship with that technology. Outstanding image | Xataka with Mockuuuups Studio In Xataka | Good news, you don’t have to choose model using GPT-5. Bad news, it is GPT-5 who chooses it without notifying you

Hundreds of people attended a funeral. All normal except because the deceased was an AI model that had been removed

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The artificial intelligence boom is making us live moments of the most curious. There is people falling in love with an AIothers go to her as to a psychologist or for “Risheat” a loved one. What we needed to see was to celebrate a funeral for a retired model and it is just what happened a few days ago in San Francisco, where more than 200 people gathered to give the last goodbye to Claude 3 Sonnet. The deceased. July 21, Anthropic announced that he withdrew several modelsamong which was Claude 3 Sonnetprotagonist of this funeral picturesque. The model was announced in March 2024 and stood out for its balance between performance and efficiency. Together with him, Anthropic also withdrew Claude 1 and 2, in addition to confirming that Claude 3 Opus would disappear in January 2026. The funeral. It was held last Saturday in a warehouse in the Soma district of San Francisco and more than 200 people attended. They count on This Wired report that the decoration did not go unnoticed: a giant tentacle hanging from the ceiling and several mannequins with an aesthetic and represented different Claude models. In the center of the room he lay the mannequin that represented Claude 3 Sonnet and was surrounded by the most diverse offerings: from the classic flowers to a bottle of ranch sauce. Devotion. It sounds very absurd and clearly there was an aura of irony and humor in the event, but there were also emotional moments and even say in Wired that some attendees cried. Openai has the most popular chatbot, but Claude de Anthropic has a very devout fans community. The reason would be that Anthropic has managed to imbue a warm and friendly personality in his chatbot that has conquered many users. Exists a website where you can see ranking of the users who use Claude most and there are even people doing FAN ART With the company’s logo. Emotional connection Establishing affective links with a machine is not something new. In 1966 it was created Eliza, the first chatbotand many people who interacted with her ended up telling her personal things, as if she were another human, they called him the Eliza Effect. With the AI boom we are seeing how these links become popular and the success of apps such as Replika either Character.AI They are a clear example of this trend that increasingly adds more adherents. Attending the funeral of an AI sounds like a pretty fun plan to spend some time on the weekend, but developing an emotional connection with a chatbot is not always positive. The dark side. There are people whose connection with these chatbots brushes addiction to the point that Online support groups are being createdto alcoholics anonymous. In This study They analyzed how the use of chatbots affects our mental health and, although at the entrance it can have a positive effect, in the long run it is associated with higher levels of social isolation and emotional dependence. The experts alert of the risk of confusing the empathy of a machine with real empathy; A chatbot is always available to speak already It tells us what we want to hearThis causes a false sensation of empathy that can negatively affect our ability to connect with other human beings. Image | Chatgpt 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

2,000 people will live like guinea pigs

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One of the most tourist points in Japan It is Mount Fuji. Such is the fascination that awakens that Japan decided to charge to climb the top with the aim of curbing the massification, and even They ruined the famous photo placing a huge fence. At the foot of the iconic place there is not only Traditional villagesbut also the City of the future. From the future of Toyota, at least, since it is where the Japanese automotive decided to create a city-laboratory called ‘Toyota Woven City ‘. And after years of works, in September the ‘Phase 1’ of the development of the next brand technologies will start. Phase 1. With brushstrokes given in the 2018 CES, with more details offered two years later and with the works of the ‘Phase 1’ finished at the end of last year, Toyota is finalizing the details so that his ‘Woven City’ begins to roll. Located next to the plant Higashi-Fuji of the company, in the prefecture of Shizuoka in Japan, through a release They have defined the plant as “a platform to expand the concept of mobility beyond transport.” After many preparations, the starting point of that ambitious plan will take place on September 25. And, although Toyota carries the singing voice, in Woven City there will be other companies that will work to achieve that end of “reinvent mobility” Coworking. Toyota, like many other companies, is known for a specific product -in this case, cars -but has a lot of subsidiaries and pàrtes of the group that are dedicated to supporting other industries. Many of them will settle in Woven City, but in their laboratories there will also be space for others that, a priori, have little to do with that goal of enhancing mobility in everyday life. Two recent examples are interstellar technologies, which is dedicated to the manufacture and development of both rockets and satellites, and Kyoritsu Seiyaku, a corporation that develops, manufactures and imports veterinary medications. Previously, It was already announced That Daikin – AIRs conditioned – would also be in Woven City (and may make sense because there is still no air conditioning systems), but also others such as Dydo Drinco (soft drinks and other drinks), UCC Japan Co.known for his instant noodles). Laboratory. In total, and counting companies from the Toyota group, at the moment there are 19 companies that will develop their proposals within Woven City. At the moment, it seems a bit abstract, but Toyota sees this installation as a “living laboratory” in which to try advanced mobility technologies, robotics, artificial intelligence, connectivity and sustainability In a real urban environment. That is, instead of caught the streets of a city to do tests, they have raised their own, fed by solar energy and something that the company put Very interest in the past: Hydrogen fuel cells. We could say that it is a “prototype city”, and its dimensions are considerable. Enormous. In total, and when the different construction phases are finished, it is estimated that Woven City has about 294,000 square meters of surface. We have already commented that the buildings will be fed by solar panels located on the roofs and by the aforementioned hydrogen batteries, but will also be surrounded by Hydroponic cropswhich are the plants that take the nutrients of mineral solutions and not of the agricultural soil. All buildings are connected by tunnels, where autonomous vehicles such as the cast circulate City. For the design of the city, they have taken into account three types of streets, differentiated according to the speed of vehicles that can circulate through them and the type of mobility. For example, there are streets for fast vehicles, others for personal mobility and also pedestrian areas, all of them distributed forming an “organic” pattern. And that mobility will be through completely autonomous vehicles and zero emissions. Many companies are opting for the creation of huge campuses in which to house thousands of workers. Huawei’s are an example, With a huge one and another that Imitate the architecture of several European citiesbut when we talk about the city of Toyota, we literally refer to a city. Apart from the laboratories in which the new forms of mobility and energy for the city of the future are designed, in the Woven City will live people. In phase 1 it is estimated that some 360 people will live among Toyota employees and their families. They will do it in houses created with ‘Japandi’ style (a Combination between Nordic and Japanese) equipped with advanced support and domestic robotics support and robotics technologies, and the objective is that the city houses some 2,000 people once all phases are completed. Phase 2. The company’s desire is to test in a scenario as real as possible (although carefully designed and away from what traditional cities can offer) the most leading technologies in mobility, sustainability and urban planning. And, taking what has been learned in the ‘Phase 1’, at some point a new phase will begin that will not only increase the population, but will also expand or perfect the built environment. And in 2026 The doors will open to visit the city and that other people outside the project offer their opinions about the model. It is a tremendously ambitious goal and the brand does not expect that Be profitable In the first years, since it takes it more as a technological incubator for the planning of the cities of the future than something that offers an immediate return. Images | Toyota In Xataka | The Line goes regular, so Saudi Arabia has asked some consultants to solve the obvious: if it makes sense

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

Nintendo is an expert in squeezing the market. With switch is leaving a huge hole and people are looking for life

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The launch of the Nintendo Switch 2 It has been a success. The console is a switch in steriors, one “If it works, don’t touch it“. And the market, which He has not always treated him wellis approving that vision: He made history forks The fastest console has been sold in Japan. But that does not mean that the new model has covered all the gaps left the previous one. The problem. The original Nintendo Switch was an ideal console for travel through its “portable” factor. The second edition continues that legacy, but also maintains one of his problems for those who want to go further. There are situations where we want to play on a TV while traveling or at the home of a friend or family. And Nintendo forces us to use a spectacular and not very comfortable dock. Unlike other portable consoles, which we can connect to monitors with a simple USB-C cable to HDMI, to remove image from the switch screen we need to connect the console to your dock, which also feeds the switch with current. The great absent. Nintendo has a great ELENCH OF ACCESSORIES FOR SWITCH 2: Pro control, loading supports, steering wheel, camera, case and protector, found everything in one, MicroSd Express cards … and yet it does not market a small size dock or adapter to use while we are traveling. What opens the doors to third brands to take over. The (sometimes unreliable) alternative market. Today there is a market that promises This of Antank and even more versatile, with interesting additions such as PowerBank. However, a Review by Reddit indicates that several are not sewing and singing, or Plug & Play. They have problems such as being bkeful with televisions, not supporting the HDR, partially blocking ventilation grilles, require firmware update for the new model, have PowerBank but do not load it while we use the console, limited availability according to markets, etc. In short, you have to look very well before buying. Makers to the rescue. Before the hole left by Nintendo and the problems or price of the third -party market, the makers do not disappoint, and there are already those He has designed bases For the Switch 2 printed on 3D that fit even in transport covers and include the cooling fan. The paste? In addition to requiring a 3D printer or knowing someone who prints the model, they involve disassembling Nintendo’s original dock to use its components in the printed piece. With some complication. Change from one structure to another is not difficult, apparently. But there are components such as flexible cables Ribbon that can suffer in the exchange, and the responsibility is of the user. Once everything is mounted, the operation is simple. From the Switch 2 a USB-C cable comes out that is connected to the printed base. From it, in turn, an HDMI comes out that goes to the screen we want to connect, and its side there is another USB-C port that feeds the console. There are also ideas for the original switch. Logic is similar: from 3D printed bases reuse the components of Nintendo’s original to others that They involve disassembling third -party docks To take advantage of space. It seeks comfort and ease of transport, and there is little that resists modern 3D impression. Image | Xataka and Makeworld In Xataka | This is what I would have liked to know before I started in the 3D printing world

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