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Eating alone outside the home has its own particular casuistry and I know this because I have had to travel without companions many times, enough to develop a filter of places that do and others that don’t. Among those running for office, there is no shortage of leaning on one side of a tavern bar to have a quick pintxo at a small table at Starbucks, passing by a more or less discreet table at McDonalds for a quick refueling. I want to eat my burger alone. About looking for a small table or one little corner It has its logic: eating has its intimate and shameful part reinforced by the feeling of “not wanting to bother” because well, although in theory any restaurant is suitable for a person to eat, in practice they may not be interested in having a table of two or four wasted with only one diner. On the other hand, you can also enjoy your food at your leisure. In the McDonalds of China those individual positions are already They are among the most valued. The provision itself is not new (and not necessarily It has to feel like a punishment.) nor does it have to go hand in hand with those seats shaped like a bike seat nor of reduce them to a minimum to save space, but rather high tables with a screen that gives a feeling of false intimacy for solitary diners. The phenomenon has been widely reported on social networks such as Xiaohongshu or Weibo, the counterparts of Instagram and Twitter: Shanghai news outlet Kankan News collect some of the best in one video. The McDonalds screens. Kankan news What false intimacy hides. In short: these screens make it very easy for you to avoid having to act Swedish to avoid the uncomfortable situation of meeting an acquaintance and having to greet them until you meet them. You sit there discreetly and eat without interaction. The Shanghai media reports testimonies from psychology professionals that explain the phenomenon: social interaction is risky for them compared to chats, where you can edit or delete what you say; and as a refuge after the inevitable social exposure after work, where they have the obligation to be friendly and smile due to social imposition. To the youth Chinese society ignores social interaction. China Youth Daily interviewed to 2,000 people between 18 and 35 years old and the result was overwhelming: 64% feel lost when they meet people offline. The percentage is even higher in this 2023 survey conducted on 1,438 Chinese people born between the decades from 1980 to the 2000s: more than 80% reported feeling anxious in social interactions. Time Magazine has put it into perspective because the phenomenon is much more than eating alone: ​​Chinese society has gone from traditionally living with family nearby (even sharing a roof) to the younger generations embarking on their lives alone after leaving their homes in rural areas to work in big cities. The maximum and most tragic expression is the success in downloads of the app “Are you dead?”. The McDonalds screens, part two. Kankan news The economics of social phobia is here. China has seen a dramatic shift in the number of people living alone, with more than 100 million single-person households, according to annual report from the National Bureau of Statistics of China 2024. In 2030, they estimate that the figure will rise to 150 – 200 million. And the economy is adapting to this paradigm shift: according to research firm iResearchthe economy of social anxiety in China already moves approximately 172 billion dollars in initiatives such as carts with “Do not disturb” signs so that product promoters in Freshippo supermarkets (owned by Alibaba), gyms and 24-hour stores without staff where everything is managed with QR codes without crossing a word with anyone, do not approach. In Xataka | The future of delivery lies in group orders with your neighbors: China is already experiencing it In Xataka | China is filling up with “quadricycles” that do not require a driving license. And they are a problem for road safety Cover | Bruna Santos

In 2025, the salary of 6,800 Valencian civil servants depends on an Access form. Only one person knows how it works

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According to has revealed According to the Audit of personnel expenses of the Generalitat Administration prepared by the Sindicatura de Comptes, the Valencian Community is experiencing a situation that is torn between the surreal and the negligence: two computer systems on which the payrolls of almost 6,800 civil servants and public employees depend cannot exchange data. The only way to achieve this is through an application made in Microsoft Access by a single person who would also be the only one who knows how to maintain and update it. SIGNO and GESPERJU2 do not speak to each other. He SIGN program (Integrated Payroll Management System and Others) is the internal computer system of the Generalitat Valenciana used for the management, calculation and payment of payrolls of civil servants and labor personnel of the Valencian Administration, including education, health and other services, allowing procedures such as direct debits and registrations or cancellations of employees. On the other hand, the GESPERJU2 program is a platform that manages the labor files of the personnel at the service of the Justice Administration of the Valencian Community, in processes such as the management of payrolls, permits and other administrative and human resources situations of its staff of judges, magistrates and Justice officials. What is expected is that the platform that manages payroll and the one that manages whether employees are on leaveon vacation or have requested a leave of absence were connected. To the surprise of the auditors of the Sindicatura de Comptes, these two platforms cannot exchange data. An “improvised” connection. As and stood out The Economistthat the officials of the Department of Justice of the Valencian Community receive their payroll on time and without errors depends only on a “patch” in the form of an application created with Microsoft Access. That’s not the auditors’ most surprising discovery, however. The person who created this application is the only one capable of updating the salary tables and other parameters necessary so that the officials’ payrolls are processed without problems. According to the Syndicate reportthis disconnection between platforms has left the Administration in a situation of “absolute dependence on a person”, in addition to “posing a high risk of continuity of operation if this person could not use this parallel application.” We imagine that at this moment, that person will be the best protected official in the Valencian Administration. Two platforms and end up doing it by hand. Another derivative is added to this unprecedented fact. The Access application has its limitations, so some payroll incidents must be done by hand by an official, so that they are reflected correctly. As the audit report noted, “the calculation of certain payroll incidents is carried out manually (arrears, three-year terms previously consolidated in General Administration positions, salary supplements for vertical replacements or guards), which increases the possibility of errors.” As described in the report, the integration problem would not be limited to Justice. Also mentioned is the risk that, due to a lack of communication between platforms, the same person who has had their position changed or promoted, could “collect two salaries simultaneously” (in the old position and in the new one) without being detected. TALIA: the great promise. TALIA is the new personnel management application that is proposed to replace the current ones and whose first phase has already would be tendered and awarded. The promise of TALIA is that personnel information and payrolls of Administration personnel will no longer live on separate and unconnected islands. However, its deployment is planned for years to come (if deadlines are met), and the precedent of delays and cost overruns in implementations like the one suffered with NEFIS in 2019. Until then, someone in the Valencian Administration will ensure that paid for the Office license. In Xataka | Companies bet everything on returning to the office. The public administration has an ace up its sleeve: teleworking Image | Unsplash (Rafael Oliveira)

You feel like going to Sri Lanka because you saw it on Instagram. The problem is that the person who recommended it to you was an AI

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The image is familiar. A young woman smiles from a beach with turquoise waters. In the following publication, he appears walking along a cobblestone street in Marrakech. Below, he poses at a luxury hotel in the Maldives. The skin is perfect, the body responds to the prevailing canons and the text accompanies with inspirational phrases about traveling, discovering cultures and “living in the moment.” Nothing seems out of place. Until you discover the reality. That traveler has not flown, she has not walked those streets or tried the food she recommends. It doesn’t exist. She is an influencer generated by artificial intelligence and is part of a phenomenon that is growing quietly: the normalization of artificial profiles that influence the real decisions of millions of people. A silent, but massive boom. In the last two years, Instagram and other social networks have been filled with virtual influencers: characters created with generative AI who pretend to be real people and publish travel content, lifestyle or fashion, the best known case in Spain is Aitana Lopez. Some indicate it more or less clearly in their biography; others do so ambiguously or almost invisibly. However, what is interesting here is how the examples multiply in the tourism sector. Sena Z has been presented as “the first travel and hospitality influencer created with AI”, It’s a collaboration between the luxury group Cenizaro Hotels & Resorts and the technology firm Bracai. Sena publishes cultural recommendations, messages about sustainability and photographs from exotic destinations. Another notable case is Emma, ​​the official influencer and chatbot of the German National Tourism Office. Emma not only publish content on Instagrambut answers questions in more than 20 languages ​​from the official website of the organization. As explained from the entity to the Washington Postits creation is part of a strategy to “stay at the forefront of digital innovation.” Other profiles are added to these profiles, such as Radhika, Emily Pellegrinior corporate avatars like Samathe Qatar Airways virtual stewardess who appears both on the airline’s website and on social networks, publishing as if she were living real experiences. These are not isolated experiments. As detailed by The New York Timesairlines, tourist offices and brands are increasingly turning to these avatars because they are cheaper, faster and completely controllable. An AI influencer does not get sick, does not get tired, does not age and does not generate personal controversies. Inexperienced influencers. The question is inevitable: what happens when the experience is not real? Just look through these profiles to see it: they recommend destinations, restaurants and cultures that they have not experienced. Even so, they generate engagementaccumulate thousands of likes and comments, and influence travel decisions. From the brands’ point of view, the appeal is evident. According to data collected by the New York mediacreating an advanced avatar can cost between $5,000 and $15,000, compared to traditional campaigns that easily exceed six figures. In addition, content can be produced without travel, without filming equipment and without negotiating with human talent. However, for real creators, the impact is already being felt. Human influencers cited by the same medium explain that brands are reducing payments, eliminating extras and offering less advantageous collaborations. AI thus becomes a new direct competition within the creative economy, a sector valued at more than 200 billion dollars globally. Is someone regulating it? While Technology advances quickly, regulation tries to catch up. Going home, in Europe, the clearest answer comes through the Artificial Intelligence Regulations (AI Act). Article 50, which will come into force in August 2026establishes transparency obligations for providers and users of AI systems. Among them: Report when a person interacts with an AI system. Mark content generated or manipulated by AI (text, image, audio or video) in detectable format. Force deepfakes and AI-generated texts that report on matters of public interest to be declared, unless there is human editorial review. The European Commission has already started the preparation of a Code of Good Practices for the marking and labeling of content generated by AI, with the participation of experts, platforms and civil society. The goal is to facilitate compliance before the law is fully applicable. However, many virtual profiles do not clearly indicate either their artificial nature or their commercial links, leaving the user in a field of ambiguity. Unreal bodies, algorithmic authority. Beyond destination promotion, most AI influencers share common traits: eternal youth, slim bodies, perfect skin and a total absence of imperfections. This phenomenon coincides with the return of Y2K aesthetics and extreme thinness on social networks, a trend that has been linked to a decline in body diversity. The most notable case was due to advertising campaigns with models generated by AI, like Guess in Vogue. Mental health experts warned that constant exposure to unreal bodies can aggravate self-esteem problems and increase risk of eating disorders. The difference, they point out, is key: while traditional retouching started from a real body, AI creates bodies that have never existedimpossible to achieve even in theory. This logic has been taken to the extreme with phenomena such as the Miss IA pageantwhere artificially generated models compete showing bodies without pores, without age and without history. According to plastic surgeonsmore and more patients come to consultation with images created by AI asking for impossible interventions and pointing out the risk of frustration, obsession and psychological damage. The underlying problem: we no longer know what is real. All of this occurs in a broader context: a crisis of visual confidence. As my colleague in Xataka has analyzedthe massive generation of hyperrealistic images has broken a chain that for centuries seemed solid: if something was seen, it had probably existed. Today, that presumption has disappeared. Seeing is no longer equivalent to knowing. In this new scenario, we not only doubt whether an influencer has really traveled, but also whether the image itself corresponds to something that happened. The consequence is a permanent suspicion that affects memory, attention and the way we relate to digital reality. The technical solution—seals, metadata, … Read more

Time magazine decided that “the architects of AI” were ‘Person of the Year’. And chaos broke out in the betting houses

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‘Time’ magazine has named ‘Person of the Year’, its traditional editorial recognition of the most relevant people of the year, to the “Architects of AI”. The topic is sensitive and controversial, and has unleashed opinions for and against the election. But it has also unleashed a parallel and unexpected tidal wave: people losing small fortunes at betting houses because of this Time decision. Beings of the year. When ‘Time’ revealed on December 11 that “AI Architects” (and not simply “AI”) would be its “Person of the Year 2025”, betting platforms Polymarket and Kalshi were plunged into absolute chaos. More than $75 million was left hanging over semantic disputes over what exactly constitutes a “person.” We are not going to go into the legitimacy of that decision or the technical quality of the cover assembly, but we can comment on how The cover effect among betting professionals brings to the table some characteristics of unregulated speculative markets that convert cultural events into casino chips. The collapse of betting. The users of Polymarket who invested more than $6 million betting on “AI” as the winner discovered that its interpretation did not match the platform’s rules. The final decision established that the title “Architects of AI” was not equivalent to designating artificial intelligence as such, giving thousands of bets as losers. The distinction was crucial: Naming those who build the technology differs radically from crowning the technology itself. In KalshiHowever, bets on individual executives (Sam Altman, Elon Musk, Jensen Huang, Mark Zuckerberg, Dario Amodei, Lisa Su and Demis Hassabis) were winners, while those who bet on corporate entities such as “ChatGPT” or “OpenAI” lost. Polymarket had more restrictive rules: betting specifically on “Jensen Huang” was a losing option, validating only the generic “Other” option. Polymarket cited an illustrative precedent: if ‘Time’ awarded “Donald Trump and the MAGA movement,” bets on Trump would win; but if the title were just “The MAGA Movement,” Trump would be excluded even if he was on the cover. Other Polymarket controversies. This scandal adds to a series of episodes that question the integrity of Polymarket. In November 2024, an unauthorized modification to the Institute for the Study of War (ISW) maps temporarily showed a Russian advance on the Ukrainian city of Myrnohrad. The change allowed bettors to earn returns of up to 33,000% before ISW admitted to fraudulent editing and fire the responsible geospatial specialist. weeks latersomeone identified as AlphaRaccoon generated profits of $1.15 million by betting with suspicious accuracy on the results of the 2025 ‘Google Year in Search’. Meta engineer Haeju Jeong documented on social media that the bettor had gotten 22 of 23 predictions right, including that singer d4vd (with just 0.2% probability) would top the searches. the same user had previously won $150,000 predicting the exact launch of Gemini 3.0, which fueled accusations of privileged access to Google information. Semantic controversy. And another one from Polymarket, which got into define whether President Zelensky had worn a suit at the NATO summit in the summer of 2024. Despite more than forty global media describing his outfit as a formal suit, the resolution protocol UMA (a decentralized oracle on Ethereum that verifies real-world data for blockchain applications) ruled “No” in a series of bets that moved $242 million. Numerous media They talked about large holders of UMA tokens manipulating the result through coordinated voting. Person of the Year, or whatever. Time magazine has been deliberately stretching the definition of “person” for decades, setting precedents that preempted this year’s confusion. In 1982 he chose “The Computer” under the title “Machine of the Year”, while 1988 crowned “The Endangered Earth” as “Planet of the Year”. The 2006 edition generated controversy by awarding an indeterminate “You”, referring to all users of digital content. “The Silence Breakers” of the #MeToo movement (2017) and “US Scientists” (1960) are other examples of award-winning collective entities. In Xataka | Five years ago he worked from his bathroom on the brink of ruin. Today he runs a company valued at 8 billion

The only advantage Apple could have in AI was its private cloud. It has been copied by the person we least expected

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Google has presented Private AI Compute, its cloud infrastructure specially designed so that our conversations remain totally private and cannot be accessed by anyone else. Not even Google. Why is it important. The deployment that Google has announced will allow users of models like Gemini to use them without fear that their sensitive data – finances, health, private conversations – could end up being rescued and accessed by third parties. Idea copied from Apple. This type of infrastructure is an adaptation of the platform that Apple presented more than a year agoPrivate Cloud Compute, and that precisely focused on protecting those conversations by using the company’s future AI models. There are some differences, and for example Apple makes use of a concept of “verifiable transparency” that allows external researchers to audit security and privacy at any time cryptographically. At Google they use third-party verification, which is somewhat more limited as it is not open to the public to verify the running software. Tranquility as a sales argument. AI models are becoming more useful and also more personal and proactive, and that means that we also end up using them with data that may be more personal and sensitive to help us with a very specific question. Beyond ZDR. The problem is that when using the models everything we ask and they answer you can see —and even deduce—. There are ZDR (Zero Data Retention) modes in enterprise accounts from some AI providers, but having a cloud that “privatizes” those conversations is especially promising when it comes to being able to talk about everything with AI without restrictions. no fear of that data coming out of there. How this “privatization cloud” works. Those responsible for Google they explain that Private AI Compute is a “secure, fortified space for processing your data that keeps your data isolated and private to you.” The system uses several layers involving its TPUs and its Titanium Intelligence Enclaves (TIE) security chips. Our devices connect to that secure cloud environment through encryption and a cryptographic security mechanism called “remote attestation” that verifies the identity and integrity of that hardware environment to which we connect. Google also offers a detailed technical report on the operation of this infrastructure. Similar to running local models. The result is theoretically that for the user everything runs “locally” in terms of privacy. Features such as translation or audio summaries that Google offers in its services run directly on our devices: there is no data that travels to the cloud. The best of both worlds. The problem is that local AI models have limited performance, and Private AI Compute will allow you to have the best of both worlds: the power of the best AI models—which run in gigantic data centers—and the privacy guarantee of Google’s Private AI Compute. A surprising twist. This type of infrastructure means that these conversations are completely protected and that not even Google can access them. It’s a surprising turn of events, especially since for the last 25 years Google has made a living by collecting our data to apply it to its advertising model. This type of option goes in just the opposite direction, and it only remains to be seen how it will market such capability. Strategic approach. Curiously, this announcement comes days after we learned that the new version of Siri with AI It will be powered—at least, initially—by Gemini, Google’s AI model. Both companies have had a multimillion-dollar agreement for years to make Google the default search engine in Safari on iPhones and Macs, and now that alliance is apparently reinforced with the use of Google’s AI model to power the future version of Siri. In Xataka | The key to making the iPhone competitive in AI was right next door: imitating what Android had already done

Goal is living in the first person a world reality. You may want not to depend on China, but you actually depend on it

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Although Mark Zuckerberg’s speech about the importance of American dominance in the face of China has adopted an increasingly aggressive tonethe reality is to stop depending on China in this regard It is complicated. And is that his strategic commitment to Smart glasses It depends almost completely on Chinese suppliers, especially on Gortek. According to sources of Financial Timesit is a company that has consolidated its control throughout the sector supply chain in Shandong. China dependence. Sources close to the company They assure that Zuckerberg has held meetings with Trump to talk about the importance of the United States leading the technological career against China. However, at least today, your company cannot manufacture your most promising devices without these Chinese companies. The Ray-Ban Meta glasses, which have sold More than two million units Since its launch, and the new Hypernova that aim to show during the Meta ‘Connect’ event, depend on Gortek for its production. Control. Goertek has not been a simple manufacturer. According to The medium, the Chinese company has executed an aggressive acquisition strategy to control key points of the chain: it has taken control of Shanghai Omnilight, specialized in micro/nano devices optics for smart glasses, and has financed the purchase of Plessey, a British optical supplier that also works in the finish line. “Goal has no choice but to work with them because they are the most stable and reliable supplier for key components,” They assure Sources close to the company. Failed diversification attempts. Goal has tried to reduce its Chinese dependence, moving part of the production of its Quest headphones To Vietnam. But even there, Goertk is still one of its main partners, as they point out from Financial Times. The Chinese company seems to have intuited the opportunities that it would have intuited very early The metaverso (who would say it) and its smart glasses, becoming an indispensable supplier. Past and present tensions. The relationship has not always been simple. According to affirms The medium, in 2022, tar The Quest. Meta executives came to discuss legal actions, but finally decided not to do so. Goertek denies having sold its own VR glasses and ensures strictly complying all agreements with its partners. The future also passes through China. According to the medium, the new Hypernova glasses, which will incorporate for the first time A small screen In one of the lenses to show notifications and responses of the Meta’s assistant, they are also being manufactured by Gortek. Fuentes say they would have a price close to $ 800, and represent the next step in the goal strategy to integrate artificial intelligence into portable devices. The premise is similar to what Google showed in its event Google I/or with that concept of smart glasses that already We could try in advance. It seems that we will have to wait for the event ‘Connect’ of Meta that will be held in the next few hours to learn more information about it. And now what. The company assures Having a “robust and diversified supply chain” and that does not depend solely on a manufacturer, but the information indicates that Gortek has become practically indispensable. A good part of the technology that drive this kind of glasses depend on Chinese manufacturers, so if this type of products end up being a massive success, it will be interesting to see what the strategy of Chinese companies around this other key sector will be. In Xataka | The Meta Ray-Ban have turned anyone into spy for 329 euros. Barcelona’s detainee is only the first visible case

How to convert any person or thing of a photo into a hologram with Gemini and Nano Banana

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Let’s tell you how convert any object or person of a photo into a hologram. For this we will use Geminithat integrates the free nano model. This allows you to do many things with Gemini’s image editor, such as Create ultra -realistic action dolls From a photo a photo and Many more things. As always, do a task like this with artificial intelligence It does not depend only on the model, but also on Prompt You use, the command with which you ask for it. Therefore, we are going to tell you which one to use and the things you should take into account to perfect it. Turn anything in a photo into a hologram The first thing you have to do is upload a photo to the Gemini writing field, either on the web or on the mobile. Then simply Write the prompt that we tell you belowand click to send everything so that AI does its magic. This is the prompt: “Convert (describe the object or the person to know what you mean) that appears in the image in a 3D hologram of transparent lines.” Here, the most important thing is make the AI ​​understand what object, person or animal you mean When you ask him to make him a hologram. When it is a photo where a distinguishable object appears, like a mobile, then you just have to say the mobile. If two similar things appear, such as two cats or two people, then you will have to give extra indications as you would like a person, such as telling him that he is the person on the right or the cat in the background with dark color. This is already. Only with these indications and leaving the rest of the prompt as Gemini will edit the photo to specifically modify what you have asked. It will not always go well to the firstthat is, you are not afraid to redo the action until it is to your liking. In fact, sometimes the result will be a representation of what is not always corresponding to what it was. For example, if you change a person for a hologram, a silhouette that is not always recognizable will appear. In other words, he sees trying again or tries to add to keep the factions. In Xataka Basics | Gemini Image Editor: 16 forms and tricks to squeeze Nano-Banana with Google’s artificial intelligence

Albania has a Minister of AI. Not a person who manages AI, no. An AI that have appointed Virtual Minister

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Is called dielle and it will be The new Minister Ia de Albania. It will not be a person, but a virtual minister controlled by an artificial intelligence system. The country becomes the first to raise something like that, and the decision has a lot to do with a theoretical advantage of the machines: with them there is no corruption that is worth. Minister Diella. The new minister (her name means “light of the sun”, in Albanian) will be in charge of managing the public hiring of the State and even has its own avatar in which a middle -aged woman dressed in a traditional Albanian suit is shown. In Spain we do not have an exclusive ministry for these functions, and this competition is part of the Fundamental competences of the Ministry of Finance and Public Function. New team of ministers in Albania. The announcement was made yesterday Thursday Albanian Prime Minister, Edi Rama. Took advantage The Assembly of the Socialist Party to indicate which ministers would leave their position and which would remain in the new mandate (the fourth behind the May elections), but also presented Diella saying “Diella is the first member who is not physically present, but is created virtually by artificial intelligence.” Goodbye to corruption? Rama explained that tenders will cease to be the responsibility of the ministries and will be put in the hands of Diella. The implementation of the AI ​​will be “step by step”, but the intention of Rama is to ensure that public tenders are “100 % incorruptible and that all public funds that pass through the bidding procedure will be 100 % legible.” Possible adhesion to the EU. Corruption has been a problem that Albania has tried to mitigate for years, especially in administration and public tenders. It is something that According to politician It has even been discussed long in the European Union. Albania Tien options to become in EU member country in 2030. AI could become president of Albania. Already during the summer He pointed out To that possibility in saying that the country could have a digital minister and even end up being governed by a prime minister totally based on an AI, but it did not seem likely to move such a fast file. Precedents in Ukraine. In May 2024 the Foreign Minister of Ukraine presented to “Victoria Shi”, a government spokeswoman generated by AI who was dedicated to reading official communications and providing information to the company. The country also launched a public procurement system controlled by an AI that baptized as Prozorro and that is oriented to monitor tenders and detect patterns of possible corruption, something similar to what is now announced by Albania. In Sweden we already knew how Your prime minister uses chatgpt to have “second opinions.” Electronic Government underway. DIELLA will also be a fundamental part of the Albania Electronic Government Platform, called e-albania. This system allows Albanian citizens to perform all kinds of efforts electronically. But. The announcement is striking, but also disturbing for several reasons: Legal and political responsibility. To begin with, an AI cannot assume legal responsibility or accountability. In case of mistakes – and the AI ​​commits them, as we know – or biases, who is sanctioned? Biases and vulnerabilities. Algorithms that govern AI are trained with data that may contain biases and therefore can be contaminated. They can also be exposed to cyber attacks and a manipulation from within. Limited transparency. Although the idea raises advantages for transparency, public decision making should be explained and debated. The “black box” of algorithms can end up replacing democratic control – with their own problems – with an opaque technocratic maintains. In Xataka | The Government of Spain wants all the AI ​​content to wear a “label”. It sounds very good, but it is a tremendous challenge

According to NASA, there has only been one person injured by a meteorite. The Ottoman Empire has another opinion

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It could be a trivial question: how many people have been injured by the impact of a meteorite? The official answer, the only documented by NASA, is one. Only one. His name was Ann Hodges. He was taking a nap on the couch of his house, and survived to tell it. However, the dusty files of the Ottoman Empire tell a different story. One that does not end with a great Moraton, but with a death. The interrupted nap of Ann Hodges. The probability that a rock rock falls is very small, but it is never zero. On November 30, 1954, Ann Hodges was sleeping on the sofa of his house in Alabama when an object of the size of a softball ball crossed the roof, bounced on a radio and hit it on the hip. The result: a considerable bruise and a legal dispute between Hodges and her homemade. Tired of media care and curious tourists, the woman ended up donating the meteorite to Alabama Natural History Museum In 1956, where it can still be visited. Two subsequent cases. From the interrupted nap of Ann Hodges there have been two doubtful cases. In 1992, a Uganda child said he was reached in the head by a small rock fragment. The Meteoritus rain existedbut the child suffered any damage. In 2016, a man died in India for the alleged impact of a meteorite. NASA It ended up determining that had not been a meteorite, but an explosion on land. A death in Ottoman archives. In 2020, a team of researchers diving in the state archives of Türkiye found something unexpected. Three manuscripts written in Turkish Ottoman described with chilling details An event occurred on August 22, 1888. The documents, which were official reports aimed at Sultan Abdul Hamid II, report that a “bright light accompanied by smoke” was followed, for about ten minutes, of meteorites that fell “like the rain” on a village of Sulaymaniyah, a region that today is part of Iraq. The consequences were tragic: “A man died and another was seriously injured and was paralyzed.” The texts also mention extensive damage to crops. No one knows where those rocks are. The documents mention that samples of the rocks were sent to the capital, but the researchers have not found them. Even so, it is the first report in the story, backed by three manuscripts, which states that the impact of a meteorite killed a man. The incident has gone unnoticed by more than a century by the idiomatic barrier and the little interest in reviewing historical archives of this type, but seems authentic. “Because these documents come from official government sources, we have no suspicion about their truthfulness,” the study concludes. Unlikely, but not impossible. Every day, about 44 tons of meteoritic material bombard the earthbut the vast majority disintegrates in the atmosphere. That a large enough fragment survives and, in addition, impacts a populated area and, to top it off, hit a person, it is statistically unlikely, but not impossible. Even so, it is not the meteorites that should worry, but our own garbage. Every day three large pieces of space garbage, such as dead satellites or rocket stages re -entering in the atmosphere. The majority burns or falls into the ocean, but luck is not eternal. With the new megaconstellations, the resentments will multiply. “Sooner or later we will have bad luck and someone will be injured by the fall of space garbage,” warns the astrophysic Jonathan McDowell. Images | Public domain In Xataka | A huge meteorite boiled the oceans 3,000 million years ago. It was a “fertilizer bomb” for the earth

A future where we all wear smart glasses sounds good, until they are taken by the person who is going to shave the crotch

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You meet in a beauty salon to make Brazilian hair removal and receive a very kind girl. Everything is going well until, in the middle of the work, you realize that it wears a goal, smart glasses capable of recording video. It is what happened to an influencer and his experience opens a new debate about privacy. What happened. The protagonist is Aniesta Navarro, a New York influencer who went to a beauty hall to be made by Brazilian hair removal (for whom he does not know, it consists of the elimination of the hair from the pubic area). Navarro told his experience in Tiktok and The video It already has more than seven million visualizations. In him he tells that the girl who attended her wore target glasses. When asked, the girl assured her that she used them as her graduated glasses and that at that time they were not loaded. The answer. The finish lines have a LED that lights up when they record and was off, but Navarro could not stop thinking if I would be recording, making the experience very uncomfortable. Days later he published Another video In Tiktok where he told that he had sent an email to the company and answered him with a generic message that did not give him too much confidence. As the story went viral, in response to the Washington Posta company spokeswoman insisted that the glasses were turned off. In addition, another Meta spokesman confirmed that manipulating the recording LED goes against service standards. Glasses for all. Mark Zuckerberg says that by 2030 the smartphone will have passed to the background because We will do almost everything through glasses. Although for now it is an emerging product may be right: the market is growing very fast and The success of the Ray-Ban Meta It is promising. What he does not say is what will mean from the point of view of privacy and if we are prepared as a society so that anyone who crosses wearing a camera in the eyes. Cameras everywhere. There are already, but we talk about glasses with a tiny camera that goes unnoticed. Yes, there is a LED that turns on when you record and cannot be deactivated, but there are already those who have found a way to hide it. Even if the LED works, many people do not realize that they are being recorded, as counted This journalist in The Times. It probably has to do with the fact that they are still a new product and is not normalized, but there are those who find it Intrusive and even sinister. More incidents. The Brazilian hair removal has not been the only incident with smart glasses. They count on Futurism That last year an exotic dancer warned about customers who used the Ray-Ban Meta to record the shows. A goalkeeper of a similar club published This video in which he denied the entrance to another client who also carried them. We don’t have to go so far: a few months ago They arrested a man in Barcelona for recording women without their consent using a goal. Image | Xataka In Xataka | They modify a goal scratch to identify strangers on the street. It is a warning of the dangerous ‘doxing’ that awaits us

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