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what it is, what it is for and how you can get one to use in your projects

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Let’s explain to you what it is and how to get a Gemini APIthe artificial intelligence from Google. It is a kind of essential key or bridge if you want to develop an app or create a workflow that includes artificial intelligence, and in which you decide that this AI is Gemini. We are going to start this article by explaining what the Gemini API is and what it is for, trying to help anyone understand the concept. And then, we’ll tell you step by step how to get your Gemini API to use in your projects. What is the Gemini API and what is it for? Gemini is the name of Google’s artificial intelligence chat, but it is also the name of the AI ​​model, of the engine underneath processing your prompts and looking for a response. And being an engine, it is an element that you can use both in Gemini apps and in other applications, as long as they can connect with Gemini to use it. And this is where Gemini having an API or application programming interface comes into play. APIs are a kind of communication bridge between an app and an external servicein this case the API is used to connect other applications with Gemini. To give an example, imagine that I want to create an artificial intelligence bot. Within this bot I would need an AI model, an engine that processed my requests. But of course, an artificial intelligence model can weigh gigas or terabytes, and I can’t afford to include it within the app. Then I will have to connect the bot with an external AI hosted on its own servers. The idea would be that when you write something to my bot, this bot sends my message to the AI, and that when the AI ​​generates the response it reaches the bot and it can show it to me. And since the bot and the AI ​​are on different servers, possibly in different countries, I’m going to need a bridge. And this bridge is the API. The Gemini API that you can create for free is a key, and it’s like the key to the bridge to connect any service to Gemini. In this way, with the API you will be able to include Gemini in your projects, or link it to third-party pages where you are creating an application or a workflow. API keys can be paid, but Google also allows you to have a free one for Gemini. The free API has certain limitations in the speed and number of requests, with numbers like 5 requests per minute or 100 per day for Gemini 2.5 Pro. And so, each model has its limits. But in exchange, what you have is the possibility of use Gemini in your projects to create your own chatbot or assistant, to automate tasks, to analyze texts, videos or audio and make transcriptions and summary, generate code, and ultimately for whatever you need. You will have the AI ​​within the application, but not natively, but you will have connected both. How to get the free Gemini API To get the Gemini APIyou will have to go to the Google API management website. For that, go to the website aistudio.google.com and sign in with your Google account. When you do, in the bar on the left at the bottom click on Get API Key. Now you have to click on the option Create API key that appears at the top of the screen you have created. This will open a window where you have to create the project for which you are going to use it to be able to identify it. When you create the project, you can now create the API. When you have created the API, you will see that it appears in the list of API keys. You just have to click on the left, below where it says Clueand a window with the API will open, starting with “AIza–“. Now you have the API, and you can link it to third-party services to access Gemini. In Xataka Basics | How to Improve Gemini Answers: 14 Steps to Ensure Higher Quality and Better Sources

the projects that still keep the free and free web alive just as we dream of it

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The Internet has never had so many users or so much content, and yet it increasingly looks like a handful of repeated screens. Much of what we read, watch or search for goes through the algorithms of a few large platformswho compete for our attention and they convert many of our clicks into measurable data. In the midst of this standardized landscape, projects survive that operate with a different logic, such as Wikipedia, OpenStreetMap or the Internet Archivewhich are not financed by ads, do not sell detailed profiles of their users and continue to support a simple and demanding idea at the same time: that information and knowledge should be a shared good. The web did not begin as a showcase for large platforms, but rather a dispersed and almost artisanal laboratory. In the early nineties, those who published on the web They did it from university serversinstitutional or domestic, using open standards such as HTML, HTTP and URIs. They were fundamental pieces of a network designed so that information could circulate without depending on technological owners or closed systems. This technical architecture fueled the idea that the Internet could be an open and accessible space. The Internet was not born to sell data: the market found how to do it That enthusiasm, however, lived with obvious limits. As we say, participation was concentrated in universities, research centers and a minority of enthusiasts with technical knowledge and resources. The figures of the time show that just one minimum fraction of the world’s population had access to the Internet, which means that this supposed openness was real in technological terms, but not socially widespread. Starting in the mid-nineties, and especially at the end of that decade, the Internet began to receive more attention. Companies saw economic potential in a network that connected millions of people and allowed information and services to be distributed on a global scale. Commercial providers, popular browsers and the first portals emerged, and with them came the logic of the market: there was traffic, there were users and, therefore, there were business opportunities. Access to the web stopped being an experiment and began to become a massive, measurable and profitable activity. This change promoted a model that would quickly consolidate: segmented advertising. It was not just about showing ads, but about analyzing user behavior and obtain data about your interestshabits and preferences. It was the moment when human attention began to acquire a concrete economic value. Clicks, dwell time and browsing patterns ceased to be technical traces and became raw material for a new digital market. In this increasingly commercialized context, some projects maintained another way of understanding the Internet. They were not born to attract traffic or to compete for attention, but to build public information infrastructures. Wikipedia was launched in 2001 with a goal that seemed unrealistic at the time: to create a free, collectively written encyclopedia available to anyone with an Internet connection. OpenStreetMap began its journey in 2004 with a similar idea, but applied to the territory, collaboratively documenting the streets, roads and places of the world. Since 1996, the Internet Archive had been preserving pages, documents, audio and video so that they would not disappear over time. Two decades later, these projects are not only still active, but are central pieces of the current web. Millions of people consult Wikipedia every day to check a fact, understand a context or learn something new. OpenStreetMap maps power everything from mobile applications to public services and humanitarian projects. And the Internet Archive has become a long-term digital memory, a place where the web is not deleted, but preserved. They are initiatives collectively built that have achieved global impact without adopting the dominant business model. Wikipedia is supported by millions of small donors, most of them are readers who contribute small amounts, usually around ten euros a year. The Wikimedia Foundation manages these resources and maintains the technical infrastructure, including servers, software development and security systems. He also manages the Wikimedia Endowmentan independent fund created in 2016 to ensure that the project can continue operating even if revenue drops one year. Since 2021, there is also Wikimedia Enterprisea way for organizations that intensively reuse content, such as search engines or artificial intelligence companies, to access structured and stable versions of the data. Financed on the backs of the people OpenStreetMap has a different and much more decentralized structure. The OpenStreetMap Foundation is responsible for servers and general coordination, but much of the work comes from local communities organizing events, training and collaborative mapping tasks. The financing comes in the form of voluntary duestechnical sponsorships and support from organizations that use the data in logistical, humanitarian or educational projects. In the case of Internet Archive, the costs fall on an infrastructure that stores millions of pages, documents and files, financed through individual donations, grants from foundations and public organizations, and archiving and digitization services for institutions. When we talk about open projects, we can confuse openness with absence of organization. However, its operation is based on explicit rules and distributed structures. Wikipedia exemplifies this better than anyone. Editorial decisions are not made by a small group, but by thousands of people who apply public standards such as neutral point of view or verifiable content. The profile of the person contributing does not matter, but rather whether their contribution meets those criteria. Administrators can intervene to protect pages or resolve disputes, but their role is primarily technical and maintenance, with no hierarchical editorial authority over content. OpenStreetMap works with a similar logic, but on geographic data: the information is built from the local and is review collectively to ensure consistency. There are regional communities They coordinate tasks, organize meetings and define practices, but the base remains open. In the case of Internet Archive, the process is not so much editing as cataloging and preservation, and external collaboration focuses on improving the quality of records and avoiding the loss of digital documents. Living with the technological giants … Read more

What if we have made a mistake with the orientation of the panels? Two projects in the Valencian Community are testing it

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For decades, solar panels have looked to the sky with an almost religious inclination. But, what if the error was precisely that? What if the future of solar energy lies in putting them on their feet? Position is everything. The Norwegian company Over Easy Solar and its Spanish partner Albricias Energía have installed the first two vertical solar systems in the Valencian Community: one in the Elche business park and another on the roof of a residential building in Bétera. The idea of ​​raising the panels is not only aesthetic: it responds to a practical need. In cities there are more and more flat roofs and fewer sloping roofs, and in the countryside, agrivoltaics seeks to free up soil for crops. In this context, verticality is becoming a solution that is as logical as it is efficient. The logic behind the vertical panel. Its promise is as simple as it is disruptive: assembly in 15 minutes per kWp, without tools or ballasts, and with a design that does not pierce the roof or alter its tightness. The panels, manufactured with heterojunction (HJT) cellsreach an efficiency of 22% and a bifaciality of 92%, that is, they capture solar radiation on both sides. In addition, being in a vertical position, they dissipate heat better, which translates into better thermal performance. At the Elche facilitythe modules were placed with an east-west orientation, so that one side receives the morning sun and the other the evening sun. That generates two daily production peaks —one around 10:00 and another around 8:00 p.m.—, just when domestic electricity demand is usually highest. While traditional panels reach their maximum at noon and fall when more energy is needed, the vertical ones fill those production “valleys”, reducing dependence on batteries or the electrical grid. Production curves of the Elche facility Source: Over Easy Solar Beyond the angle. Furthermore, their shape and geometry make them almost immune to dirt, hail or wind, and as they do not require screws or ballasts, they can be easily dismantled if the roof requires maintenance. The Fraunhofer ISE Institute has endorsed that this configuration does not compromise structural stability, which reinforces its technical feasibility. According to Over Easy itselfvertical solar installations are becoming a value option for both urban rooftops and large-scale or agrivoltaic projects, and offer competitive capture rates and payback periods compared to conventional photovoltaics. The vertical spin expands. It is not an isolated idea. In California, the Sunstall company has developed Sunzauna system of vertical bifacial panels designed to combine agriculture and energy. The project, installed in a vineyard in Somerset, uses modules that generate electricity on both sides and allow cultivation under partial shade, reducing UV stress on the plants and taking advantage of the land for both uses. The principle is the same: more usable surface area, less heat, less maintenance and a more stable production curve. And, furthermore, with added value: keeping the land available to produce food. In urban environments, verticality also makes its way. The Canadian Mitrex SolarRail has launcheda bifacial solar railing system that turns balconies into small energy generators. With transparent and opaque versions, these modules integrate photovoltaics into the architecture without altering the design of the building or taking up additional space. The technology that makes it possible. With twist or without it, all recent proposals point in the same direction: bifaciality. HJT (heterojunction) cells combine crystalline and amorphous silicon to make better use of reflected light and reduce temperature losses. This symmetrical structure allows energy to be generated from both the front and rear of the panel, something essential for vertical systems or systems integrated into facades. And it doesn’t stop there. New advances, such as bifacial perovskite panels developed by the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Dharwad, could make these solutions even cheaper and better. Will the future be vertical? Verticality does not seek to replace traditional photovoltaics, but rather to complement it. It allows energy to be produced when it is needed most, reduces the visual footprint and increases generation on already saturated roofs or in buildings without inclination. In the words of Pablo Sánchez-Roblesfounder of Albricias Energía: “Over Easy systems can complement already executed installations, increasing generation without changing the inverter.” Maybe in a few years we will look at the sloping roofs and think that the panels always wanted to be standing. After all, the sun rises in the east and sets in the west. Image | Over Easy Solar Xataka | Quantum find in Cambridge points to solar ‘Holy Grail’: single-material solar panels

Morocco has started one of the most ambitious projects in the history of Africa

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Morocco has begun to build its stretch of the Nigeria-Charuecos gas pipeline (NMGP), a megaproject of 25,000 million dollars that stands out not only for its scale, but for its geopolitical implications. The energy map of Africa and its connections with Europe will change. A 6,000 km corridor. Moroccan Energy Transition Minister Leila Benali, announced the start of the works. The stretch of Morocco will cost about 6,000 million dollars, and will serve as the future dorsal spine of the Kingdom Gasist Network. This initial segment will connect the port of Nador, on the Mediterranean coast, with the city of Dajla, to the south of the country. The entire Transaphrican gas pipeline will be extended through the Atlantic coast to connect Nigeria’s vast gas reserves with Morocco. From there, it will be exported to the European market, confirming Rabat as a first level energy hub. A pharaonic project. The infrastructure is designed to transport up to 30,000 million cubic meters of natural gas per year and guarantee the supply of 13 African countries. The gas pipeline will leave from Nigeria, crossing the coasts of Benin, Togo, Ghana, Ivory Coast, Liberia, Sierra Leone, Guinea, Guinea-Bisáu, Gambia, Senegal, Mauritania and Morocco. In addition to promoting industrial development and access to the energy of 400 million people, NMGP foresees Extend the supply to the European Gasist Network Already African countries without coast: Niger, Burkina Faso and Mali. Engineering studies They ended in 2024the environmental and social impact analysis of the southern section are missing. And the Algeria gas pipeline? The project directly rivals the Transaharan gas pipeline (TSGP), The initiative backed by Algeria to bring the same Nigerian gas to Europe through Niger. However, political instability in Sahel, especially after the coup d’etat in Niger, has put the viability of the Algerian corridor in serious trouble, granting a strategic advantage to the Atlantic route of Morocco. Where 25,000 million will come from. For Nigeria, the gas pipeline is the cornerstone of its “Gas Decade” initiativea strategy to monetize national reserves of six billion cubic meters of natural gas. For Morocco, the project is the spearhead of its “Atlantic Initiative”, which seeks to turn the country into a strategic corridor between Europe, Africa and the Atlantic. Ensuring 25,000 million dollars is the main obstacle. The project will make a final decision on the investment at the end of 2025 that will be the fire test, although it has already aroused the interest of entities such as the Islamic Development Bank and the European Investment Bank. How to protect thousands of kilometers of pipes that will cross 13 nations, some with unstable political environments and doubtful security, will be one of the great discussion points. The fact that investing in fossil fuel infrastructure In full green transition it is the elephant in the room. Image | NNPC In Xataka | The US has had an idea to feed its AI: build its data centers next to natural gas deposits

In 2016 a man began to edit movies with kittens videos. Today he projects them in cinemas and is raising a fortune

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Imagine that you like cats so much that you decide to set up a movie from funny videos that you find online. And now imagine that You end up becoming a film festival And I peta. It is not fiction, it is the story of Cat video fest And last year he raised more than one million dollars. The phenomenon. The cats are A whole genre of the Internetone that seems that It never goes out of style. In 2016, Will Braden decided to set up a feature film with funny cats of cats because … why not? It was the principle of Cat Video Fest, an annual event that projects a cinemas in cinemas and has a very noble objective: to donate part of the collection to shelters and associations of needy cats. He began projecting in the United States and Canada, but growing popularity has made it projected in other countries in the world. Cats and that’s it? Yes, cats and that’s it. Throwing things from the table, in strange postures, making mischievas … there is no history or conductive thread, only funny videos of cats, one behind the other. The 2024 film lasted 73 minutes. Those are many cat videos. In a Variety reportthe creator admits that he sees more than 15,000 cat videos a year and selects about 200 for the movie. A job. “It’s my full -time work. On my card I see that I see cat videos,” says Braden. It looks like a fairly easy and pleasant job, but there is a quite dense part: request and get permits to use the content. The selection of videos takes a complete quarter, as is the same as getting the permits of everything. The last quarter before launch is dedicated to distribution and promotion tasks. Of course, he admits that his wife who is a primary teacher wins more than him. It is profitable. There is not much information about the total raised from the first edition, but we do know what they achieved in 2024. In a Note to Shareholders (Yes, he has shareholders), Will Braden said that the total collection amounted to 1,026. $ 470, of which she would donate $ 100,000 to shelters. In one Reddit Question SessionBraden said that the minimum they donate from each entry is 10%, “sometimes more depending on the city.” It does not give details of how the remaining 90% is distributed, but they do say they dedicate it to pay the cinemas where it is projected. The 2025 edition begins to project tomorrow and hope to get 1.2 million dollars only in the collection of the United States and Canada. Image | Cat video fest In Xataka | The ‘Maullido Division’, when Russia released 5,000 cats to help in World War II

The US pressure forces China to independent its chip industry. These two projects are their best cards

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China has no choice. Or develops its own manufacturing technology of avant -garde semiconductors or will lose its struggle for world supremacy With the US. No 100% Chinese advanced chips their military capacity, the development of their models of artificial intelligence (AI) and the competitiveness of their technology companies will resent in the medium term. Huawei and SMIC are manufacturing advanced integrated circuits, but use machines from the Dutch company ASML and a technology known as Multiple patterning that compromises its competitiveness. This scenario has caused the Chinese government support with very juicy subsidies to companies that have the ability to develop avant -garde photolithography equipment, such as SicarrierShanghai YuliangSheng, Shanghai Micro Electronics Equipment (Smee), Huawei or SMIC. Time plays against this Asian country. How much later in having their own machines of extreme ultraviolet lithography (UVE), which are those used to make very high integration chips, more delayed will be in front of the US and its allies. 2026 will be a crucial year for China in the field of chips The Chinese Academy of Sciences is finishing what is undoubtedly The most ambitious project How many are developing the Chinese semiconductor industry. Thanks to this plan the nation led by Xi Jinping is about to reach a “Deepseek” in the field of integrated circuit industry. This simply means that it is preparing to reach a disruption that has the potential to place this Asian country at the same height as the US, Taiwan or South Korea. However, China’s strategy to produce avant -garde chips is very different from what their rivals have used until now. Each of ASML UVE machines incorporates its own ultraviolet light source, but the Chinese Academy of Sciences seeks to generate this important radiation to produce advanced chips using a syncrotronwhich is nothing other than a circular particle accelerator that is used to analyze atomic level the properties of matter, such as various types of materials, or even proteins. It’s called heps (High Energy Photon Source or high -energy photons source), it is in Beijing and we can see it in the cover photography of this article. Heps syncrotron has the ability to produce high power UVE light An important note before moving forward: the ultraviolet light (UV) is responsible for transferring the geometric pattern that contains the design of the chips to the Silicon wafer. This means, in broad strokes, that the UVE light has the ability to make possible the manufacture of integrated circuits with a greater resolution than the deep ultraviolet light (UVP) that use the previous generation lithography machines that China has in their hands. And a greater resolution in practice implies that it is possible to produce semiconductors with more transistors, and, therefore, more sophisticated and powerful. A priori we can think that a particle accelerator has nothing to do with the manufacture of integrated circuits, but we would be overlooking something very important: the Heps syncrotron has the ability to produce high power UVE light. In fact, it is a source designed to generate a large amount of radiation. China’s plan is to place around the particle accelerator Several semiconductor manufacturing plants to which the syncotron will deliver the UVE light in the same way that a power plant delivers electricity to its customers. That simple. The date on which China plans to start this megaphabrum of avant -garde semiconductors has not yet leaked, but it is already very advanced. However, China’s plans do not end here. In the middle of last March several Asian media collected a photograph taken at the Huawei Research Center in Dongguan, in the province of Canton, in which it appeared The prototype of a UVE lithography team Designed and manufactured entirely in China. Presumably this machine is similar to those produced by ASML, which invites us to anticipate that for 2026 the country led by Xi Jinping will have the ability to produce advanced chips on a large scale. This Chinese lithography equipment uses an LDP type ultraviolet source and not LPP class The leaks They assure That unlike the UVE machines produced by the Dutch company ASML, this Chinese lithography equipment uses an LDP ultraviolet light source (laser induced discharge), and not LPP class (plasma generated by laser). Presumably The development of this ultraviolet radiation emission source It is the milestone that has allowed Chinese engineers to develop a machine that Many experts did not see possible before five years in the best case. At the moment the most prudent is that we take this information with caution, but it seems solid enough to echo it. An interesting note is that on paper the LDP source is able to generate UVE light with a wavelength of 13.5 nm, so this Chinese prototype should be able to compete from you to you with ASML UVE photolithography machines. In addition, the leaks argue that China will begin the production of more test machines during the third quarter of this year with the purpose of launching the large -scale manufacture of these equipment during 2026. Image | Dr. Kim More information | Dr. Kim In Xataka | TSMC acknowledges that it has been considered taking its factories out of Taiwan. It is impossible for a good reason

Galicia blocked 64 eólicos projects judicially. Now the Supreme Court has returned them to life

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In these last 15 years, wind energy in Galicia He has faced multitude of legal problems due to great social opposition. In fact, the Superior Court of Xustia de Galicia (TSXG) has suspended in repeated different occasions wind projects for environmental risk complaints. Finally, these conflicts have reached the Supreme Court, sitting a precedent in Spain. The sentence. The Supreme Court He has validated The environmental processing of the Xunta de Galicia, reactivating the 64 judicially blocked projects. The sentence has also reinforced the legality of administrative agreements, such as the Campelo wind farm in A Coruña. Also, how The confidential has had accessthe TS has rejected the idea that several wind farms that share infrastructure should be considered as a single project, thus simplifying the environmental evaluation. The origin. The conflict began by The expansion of wind farms that exceeded 200 meters high. According to the countryneighborhood and environmental groups argued that some of these parks were in sensitive areas and did not meet environmental guarantees. All this leads to the judicial situation to be further complicated by the lack of a final resolution, with more than 130 pending lawsuits until the end of 2024. A precedent. According to El Confidencial, The Superior Court of Xustiza de Galicia had asked to wait for the Court of Justice of the European Union (TJUE) to rule on an issue raised by the Ecological Association Adega. However, the Supreme Court rejected it. In addition, the Xunta de Galicia has clarified that the TSXG is the only one in Spain that has questioned the compatibility of the Law 21/2013 With European regulations. This issue could affect not only projects in Galicia, but also those of other autonomous communities that need an environmental evaluation. The Minister of Economy of Galicia, María Jesús Lorenzana, celebrated that the Supreme Court has validated processing Of wind projects, highlighting that the more wind energy occurs, cheaper could be the price of electricity. The impact. All this conflict is not an isolated case, but reflects a broader problem related to energy inequality in Spain. The precedent that the TS feels has guaranteed the continuity of wind projects in the community, but the opposition will continue to exist. Therefore, to move towards a sustainable energy transition, it will be necessary to balance the interests of the economy, the environment and local communities. Image | Pexels Xataka | Now we can see the rise of renewable energy in the world: we just needed the satellite images

In Jaén the neighbors are also protesting against renewable projects

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The latest forecasts on renewable energy production They have placed To Spain as a great power in Europe. However, the growth of clean sources is not distributed uniformly, letting a large part of the projects concentrate in rural areas. Now, the voices of the protest do not stop growing. The claim. The massive installation of solar plants in Jaén has reached courts to stop the projects in Lopera, Arjona and Marmolejo. The neighbors and farmers, united on the “Campiña Norte platform against the solar megaplants”, They have denounced The environmental and economic impact of the solar installation. In addition, they have warned that they will cause the felling of more than 100,000 olive trees. A problem for the entire community. The growth of renewables in Andalusia It is drivenamong other factors, due to its weather conditions, making it suitable for The installation of solar panels. It also has various points for Green hydrogen extractionbecoming a favorable place to renewables. Also, the Junta de Andalucía has declared public utility Multiple renewable generation projects, dismissing allegations of those affected and advancing with forced expropriations to facilitate the installation of these infrastructure. Symptom of something greater. This phenomenon is not exclusive to Andalusia, since it is a trend that has traveled the entire peninsula. Starting with the teacher, where various communities They have shown His rejection of the proliferation of wind farms, passing through Galicia, where the Superior Court of Xustiza has intervened on multiple occasions in conflicts related to the installation of wind turbines. In fact, the motto “Renewable yes, but not” It has become the cry of a growing movement in rural areas (groups with more than 152 organizations), which, although it does not oppose the energy transition, does require a balanced and respectful development of the territory. Some produce, others consume. The conflict too shows the gap between the energy producing areas and the large urban nuclei that consume it. On the one hand, the autonomous communities such as Aragon, Extremadura, Castilla-La Mancha or Castilla y León that They are supporting Most of the renewable electricity generation in Spain. On the other hand, the big cities like Madrid that They consume large quantities of energy and almost do not contribute to the electrical system. This asymmetry reinforces the perception in the rural world that renewable development does not translate into direct progress for its communities, but in a negative externalality imposed by the energy needs of the cities. But and any solution for the field? The big question is whether there are alternatives to advance the energy transition without sacrificing agricultural or protected land. The answer is that yes and it is with the combination of both: The agrovoltaic. In the specific case of Jaén a study has found a solution To distribute the olive grove between panels solar panels, minimizing the impact of photovoltaic shadow on the growth of olive trees. In fact, there are many studies that have shed light on the installation of solar energy in crop fields, and have demonstrated how the shadow can be beneficial for the vegetation, A honey farm, Tomato cultivation And even to wool quality. Image | E. Crespo and Pexels Xataka | Forget the industrial revolution: the fastest energy change in human history is happening now

Claude 3.7 has returned to life an old 1997 program. The question is whether IA can translate old projects in Cobol or Fortran

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A veteran programmer received a two -year -old granddaughter’s visit a few days. It was then that he recalled that in 1997 he scheduled an application in Visual Basic 4 an application that might have fun. The problem was that he only had the executable, and it was not easy to be able to use it in his current equipment, so he came up with an idea. Translate this old APP to Python. What he did, as said in Reddit (With a post -written post for this AI), it was to upload the executable as an entrance for the newly launched the Claude 3.7 model. He asked him for something simple: “Can you tell me how to run this file? I think I scheduled it with Visual Basic 4, it would be great to turn it to Python.” Inverse pseudoengineering. The surprising thing is that Claude 3.7 showed some warnings, but then began to analyze the binary file and identified some program components. In fact it went further and translated that code to Python using the Pygame bookstore. Modernized code. The AI ​​system managed to perfectly replicate the functionality of the original program, and the model also provided instructions to install and execute it without problem, but it also was executed and operated 100% from the first moment. And all in five minutes. And modifications, the ones you want. This user would then ask for some improvements, such as associating certain sounds to the space bar or adding color typefaces, and Claude 3.7 modified the code perfectly to offer those improvements. But. The user shared All conversation in Claude so that anyone could check the process that followed. As Visual Basic said P-Code (Pseudocode), a kind of intermediate compilation in which there are some recognizable elements, but not too many to help that reverse engineering task. A door to modernize old software projects. It is true that the pseudocode generated by VB facilitated that “reverse engineering” task, but still this experiment with Claude 3.7 seems to open the door for many other software projects to modernize. A way out for mastodons created with Cobol or Fortran? In fact, already very veteran programming languages ​​such as Cobol or Fortan are still very important in industries such as banking, and force to maintain systems that can maintain compatibility with these old applications. Lack of programmers. There are no longer many programmers who dedicate themselves to these programming languages, which makes them “translate” them to more modern programming languages ​​is especially interesting. In 2023 IBM showed precisely A IA -based project to translate Cobol programsbut it is not clear if that has allowed to complete ambitious projects in that sense. What Claude 3.7 of course opens the door to achieve it. THE EXAMPLE OF MOCAS. We have already talked about Moccas, software created in 1958 and used in the US administration for the “mechanization of administration service contracts.” It is scheduled in Cobol-in fact it was originally programmed in Flow-Matic-and continues to work today, but it has been a long time since in the US They look for ways to adapt it to the new times. Perhaps Claude 3.7 or similar AI models manage to offer a solution to that problem. Even so, difficult. The example shown by that veteran programmer is striking, but it was a small application. Projects such as Moccas are enormously more complex and are part of a series of interdependencies with other components, which makes this possible task of reverse engineering and translation more difficult. But be careful: it may not be impossible, and at least Claude 3.7 and other models can end up being precisely the tool we needed to carry out that task. Image | Flipflopflorida In Xataka | Young programmers no longer know how

The projects that played to be God during the twentieth century

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On August 6, 1945, Two atomic bombs They razed the cities of Nagasaki and Hiroshima and, practically, put the end to World War II. It was a tragedy And, at the same time, a demonstration of strength. Demonstration of who would carry the baton in the new world order that had been created but, also, a demonstration of what was capable of doing nuclear energy. Aware of the military advantage that the atomic bomb, the armies of the most leading powers, They launched their developmentwith United States and the USSR at the head. The general atmosphere worldwide was fear and respect for technology that could cause a disaster never known until then. But, of course, it also served to give wings to the techno-optimists. Tecno-optimism is a current of thought that, In generaldefends that technological development and continuous improvement of current products will improve our life in the future, make it easier and increase our happiness. As I say, we talk about the master lines because This current of thought has different visions And, of course, detractors indicating that any development of a product or new invention can be used for malicious purposes. Noah Smith, journalist and extrabajador of Bloomberg, He puts as an example The use of drones as a gun to illustrate this last point of view. That techno-optimism lived a huge boom in the 50s and 60s. The cold war led humanity to an accelerated development that led people to spacethe First commercial opportunity of computersof Internet Oa to think of cars moved by nuclear energy. Why not? Nuclear energy for infinity car If any technology gained adherents among the techno-optimists of the 50s, nuclear energy was. In a document rescued by the International Atomic Energy Agency (OIEA) entitled 10 years of energy of nuclear origin It stands out that: “There was a period in which the fears that raised such a shortage became so deep that this was given to the commercial nucleotic energy its first great impulse. It was inevitable that the minds would turn to the new source of energy that had taken advantage of for war, as a means to compensate for the insufficiency of energy resources. When for the first time the nucleum energy became Easy about that means of obtaining cheap energy and in practically unlimited quantities, and among the fears that were sheltered on a shortage of energy of traditional origin and the hopes encrypted in an abundance of energy of nuclear origin, the latter prevailed, with an excess of optimism, until the end of 1957 “ As we said, despite the World War II Experiencenuclear energy won adepts rapidly and organizations such as the OIEA that defended its use for civil purposes, as a means of production of an electrical energy that was increasingly demanded. That idea that the nuclear led us to a “cheap energy and in practically unlimited amounts” promoted what we know as Atomic Ageor the era of atomic energy, born in the 40s. “The fact that we can release atomic energy inaugurates a new era in the understanding of the forces of nature by man. In the future, atomic energy can complement what comes from coal, oil and water, but that at the moment it cannot occur so that it can compete commercially with those sources. Before that happens, a long period of intense research must occur. It has never been the custom of the scientists of this country To the world scientific knowledge. The above words are from Harry S. TrumanPresident of the United States that gave the order to use the atomic bomb. The investigations showed that atomic energy could be used as a source of energy and, above all, as coal alternative and fossil fuelswhich were already seen as a finite source of energy and whose impact on people’s health was found first hand in the London of the 50s. At the point that nuclear energy could be a huge source of energy began to think applications for day to day. How to miniaturize technology to have, for example, appliances that will work with a nuclear battery that would last the entire product life cycle. Ford Nucleon model And, of course, the idea of ​​the car moved by nuclear energy came. The best known proposal is that of the Ford Nucleona prototype thought in 1958 that, of course, did not go from the model. The system was as simple as it was crazy: setting up a small nuclear reactor in the car. As? The rear, extraordinarily elongated would allow to shelter a small nuclear reactor. Inside, A uranium capsule It would work as a radioactive nucleus. As in any thermonuclear reactor, the uranium fission would cause a large amount of water vapor that would serve to move two turbines. One of them would start the wheels and the second would make all the electrical systems of the vehicle operate. Ford Seattle-ite XXI For some reason we do not know, Ford seemed that his plans could have some future and in 1962 they returned to the load. Then they presented the Ford Seattle-ite XXIa car that increased further the concept of nuclear car, to the point of having six wheels and body and interchangeable engines to pass from 60 hp to 400 hp. One option for day to day and another for long trips. The crazy concept was presented at the Century 21 exhibitionin Seattle, as an improved evolution of Nucleon. For example, it had been devised with six wheels because a double axis would serve to endure the weight of the small nuclear reactor in the rear. They even saved their backs pointing out that if one of the four wheels of the double axis were punctured the car would be able to continue with the rest. Guaranteed security and dynamism. Interestingly, the concept of this new car did have other inventions that we see in our current vehicles, such as a continuous tracking of the vehicle through GPS. Studebaker Packard … Read more

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