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Microsoft knows that something has gone wrong, and promises these changes

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For years, if you wanted to play on a computer, the answer was almost automatic: you needed Windows. Linux experience was limited and macOS did not offer a competitive catalog. That landscape seemed immovable until Valve decided to really bet on the game on Linux and showed that there was room to shake the board. Steam Deck It came as an experiment that many did not see coming and ended up reconfiguring expectations, to the point that more and more players are talking naturally about switching to Linux. This change of mood has put Windows under a magnifying glass that it did not have before. Windows’ historical strength in gaming was explained by something very simple: it offered the largest catalog, the most mature tools and a fluid relationship with developers. That basis is still real, but its perception has changed. The end of Windows 10 support along with the strict requirements of Windows 11has put teams that were still performing well on the ropes, unless their owners agree to run out of patches or use the extended update program. At the same time, the integration of functions that many interpret as unnecessary additions has generated some wear and tear. Microsoft tries to retain its throne in PC gaming Valve has been preparing the ground for years so that gaming on Linux stops being an experiment and becomes a viable option. Proton has allowed thousands of games designed for Windows work on SteamOS with a level of compatibility that was previously unthinkable, and the Steam Deck has served as a showcase for that progress. The recent announcement of a new Steam Machine for the show consolidates that movement, placing Valve in a position that challenges the idea that Windows is the only natural destination for PC gaming. It is not a frontal assault, but it is increasing strategic pressure. In parallel, far from presenting a laptop with an Xbox seal, Microsoft has opted for a more flexible path: supporting manufacturers that already dominate this segment. Together with Asus and AMD, he has shaped the ROG Xbox Ally and Xbox Ally Xdevices that run Windows 11 but boot into a full-screen interface designed for controller use. This experience unifies games from different launchers and reduces distractions, bringing the console feel closer without giving up the PC nature. It’s a way to compete in portable devices without having to design and maintain new hardware of your own. Besides, Microsoft presented Several internal improvements in Windows 11 are the result of work with the ROG Xbox Ally, which today benefit a large part of the Windows PC ecosystem. They include more efficient power settings, more stable memory management on Ryzen APUs and lower CPU load on tasks that previously affected performance. Still, the company insists that there is still room to cover. “We are committed to making Windows the best place to play, and we will continue to refine the system behaviors that matter most in gaming: background load management, power and scheduling improvements, graphics stack optimizations, and updated drivers.” Several of the technical improvements announced by Microsoft have already reached the desktop. DirectX Raytracing 1.2 is available and provides tools to process complex scenes more efficiently as long as the GPU and drivers are compatible. Advanced Shader Delivery works on select titles and speeds up initial loading when precompiling shaders during installation. Work on neural rendering is advancing cautiously and is only available in preliminary mode for studies. In parallel, Windows 11 has expanded support for LE Audio, which reduces latency and improves the experience in games that depend on sound. The push for Windows on ARM has become another relevant front to expand the reach of the ecosystem. During 2025, devices enrolled in the Insider program have been able to install compatible games from the Xbox PC app, allowing many titles to be played locally. The Prism emulator has added support for AVX and AVX2 instructions, and several anti cheat vendors, such as Easy Anti Cheat and BattlEye, have added specific support for Windows on ARM. From a gamer’s perspective, Windows retains obvious advantages, such as its catalog and the guarantee that almost everything will work without additional tweaks. Even so, the experience in Linux has improved Enough so that some see a more limited system as attractive, with fewer background processes and more predictable behavior. SteamOS solves many historical obstacles, although its popularity does not reach that of Windows, which continues to concentrate around 95% of Steam users compared to Linux still close to 3%. Windows’ journey in gaming has been long and dominant, but its role is no longer automatically sustained. Microsoft’s recent decisions show that the company is aware of this and wants to correct the wear and tear with technical improvements, a clearer roadmap to the future. Even so, Valve’s push has changed expectations and introduced a competitor that did not exist before. What remains to be resolved is whether these movements will be enough for Windows to retain the preferred place that no one discussed for years. Images | Microsoft | Xataka In Xataka | We knew that Valve was betting on Linux, but it was hiding something bigger: a years-long plan to bring Steam to all devices

Opera Neon promises to be the future of the browser. It is an ambitious vision yet to mature

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I’ve been using it for a week Opera Neon and I don’t know if I’m testing the future of web browsing or participating in a psychological experiment on how much friction a human tolerates before returning to their usual browser. Probably both. Neon comes standard with everything that any veteran Opera user takes for granted: side messaging integrations, music apps in streamingthe multimedia panel… It is the reminder that, despite all the agentic experimentation, there is still an Opera underneath: practical, comfortable and designed for those who live glued to several platforms at the same time. The promise is seductive: a browser that not only answers questions, but act for you. Who browses, compares, reserves, creates. Who understands what you want to do and does it while you focus on more important things. Opera calls this “agentic AI“, and technically it is correct: Neon can take control of the browser, open tabs, fill out forms, compare products. It is AI with hands, it is Opera’s proposal for the same field as Perplexity with Comet or OpenAI with ChatGPT Atlas. The problem is that those hands are sometimes clumsy, unpredictable and dangerously overconfident. Opera Neon maintains all the classic features of Opera, such as the side panels to display messaging mini-applications or streaming music on an upper layer. In the image, Apple Music. Image: Xataka. Three brains in one body To understand Neon you have to accept that It is not an AI browser. It is a browser with three AIs living together. Chat, Do and Make. Each one with its function, its purpose, its personality. And here begins the first big problem: knowing which one to use at all times is a guessing exercise. Chat is the most familiar. A conversational chatbot that answers questions, summarizes pages, translates texts. Typical. It works well when you’re not making things up, which is about 70% of the time. I asked him to count the comments on several articles and he responded with 400 words explaining that there were none. when there were four. Do is where magic and terror live. You ask him to book a CrossFit class, find the cheapest flight to Lisbon, compare prices on headphones, unsubscribe from some newsletters. And sometimes it does. Open tabs, browse websites, fill out fields. Watching him work is hypnotic. It’s also slow, erratic, and occasionally catastrophic. In a test I asked her to add flowers to a store cart. Instead of somehow inferring my zip code or asking me about it, he directly introduced 28001: madridcentrismo to the song. While I, helpless, did click on the correct options that I was completely unaware of. There is no way to correct it while working. You can only watch, like someone who sees their autonomous car getting dangerously close to the cliff. A zip code just because, 350 km from my house. Image: Xataka. Neon spent an absurd amount of time wandering around the web, adding the bouquet to the cart, getting stuck on the shipping zip code, not feeling like anything productive was happening. Image: Xataka. Another example with Do: Image: Xataka. What he did was open Google Shopping, enter the term and not be able to click ‘Search’, apparently due to some subtle change in the website’s code. I gave it myself and Neon continued. It took a long time just to choose the order by price from lowest to highest. Finally he wrote the answer: Image: Xataka. Happy ending, although it is difficult to think of use scenarios where the use really compensates for the time and supervision it requires. If someone doesn’t know about Google Shopping, this is a good use case. If someone knows Google Shopping, they only have to do two clicks. Another example: reading some recipes Straight to the PalateI asked him to add all the ingredients necessary to make them to the Mercadona cart. Let’s go to trouble. Image: Xataka. Image: Xataka. This was one of those scenarios where there was no way I was going to complete the mission. Image: Xataka. Make is the most ambitious. Generate code, build web applications, create videos. I asked him for a memory game with Spanish vocabulary and he did it in minutes. Rough, but functional. It’s like having a mini-developer living in your browser, working in a virtual environment that disappears when you close the tab. A brilliant idea. A little polished perhaps, but brilliant. Image: Xataka. There are also the cardsa kind of templates prompts that function as mental shortcuts. You can combine them – “summarize + compare”, “decisions + follow-up” – or create your own so you don’t start from scratch every time you talk to the AI. It’s a simple but powerful idea: it makes user learning part of the system. Similar to what you propose Day with his Skills. It’s a good idea. What is not being said about Opera Neon Here comes the part that interests me the most, the one I read between the lines after a week living with this thing. Opera Neon is not really a product. It is a testing ground with product pricing. It is a public beta disguised as a premium service. And that wouldn’t be so much of a problem if it didn’t cost $20 a month. Let me be clear: I’ve seen enough technology launches to recognize when a company is testing concepts in the open field. And Neon is that. The bugs They are not occasional, they are structural, like the hallucinations. The Do agent disconnects if your computer goes to sleep. Chat responses are verbose. The Cards interface—those shortcuts prompts reusable—is full of examples with no real useful content. Cards examples interface. Image: Xataka. But there’s something more interesting going on here. Opera is making a counterintuitive bet at the worst possible time. We are in 2025: Google gives away Gemini in Chrome. Perplexity has Comet. The Browser Company (Arc’s company) has Day. Microsoft puts Copilot everywhere. And OpenAI recently launched ChatGPT Atlas. … Read more

Gemini 3 promises more quality and precision than ever in its responses. The question is whether we will really notice the difference

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Google has announced the launch of Gemini 3its new artificial intelligence model. in the company They claim it is their most advanced reasoning model because it is “designed to understand depth and nuance.” Gemini 3 will also be available as standard as part of AI Mode in the renewed Google search engine (in this case and for the moment, only in the US). It is the first time that Google offers the benefits of its AI model from day one in the search engine, but it also reaches the Gemini app and the developers who work with AI Studio and Vertex AI. Behind him success of Gemini 2.5 Pro and Flashthe new version arrives in 30 new languages, including Catalan, Basque and Galicianand as we say you can start testing today in the United States… or outside of there via a VPN. Gemini 3 promises. At least in the tests Google highlights how the model’s behavior has been outstanding in various synthetic tests. Thus, Gemini 3 leads the LMArena classification with 1,501 points—the first to overcome the 1,500-point barrier. According to Google, the Gemini 3’s test results put it ahead of all its competitors in virtually all scenarios. In fact, he manages to reason “at the level of a PhD” according to the tests of Humanity’s Last Exam (exceeds 37.5% of the test without tools) and GPQA Diamond (91.9%). It also makes spectacular progress in mathematics, as demonstrated by the 23.4% on the MathArena Apex test: GPT 5.1 scores 1.0% and Claude Sonnet 4.5 1.6% on the same test, for example. The model also wants to be more direct: his answers are more “concise (…) and he prefers to offer valuable information instead of resorting to clichés and flattery. Tells you what you need to hear, not just what you want to hear“. Gemini 3’s ‘Deep Think’ mode goes even further in tests: in Humanity’s Last Exam it achieves 41.0%, but it also in the demanding ARC-AGI 2 It achieves 45.1% (with code execution), which also demonstrates progress in abstract reasoning and visual understanding. Gemini 3 explains the world to you in a simple way The model has a context window of up to one million tokens, which allows it to be used, for example, to analyze huge repositories of code or text and then work on that data. Its multimodal support allows you to analyze all types of information. For example, Gemini 3 can decipher and translate handwritten recipes in different languages ​​to create a family cookbook that you can share. Or analyze your pickleball games (we assume the same thing happens in other sports) and identify areas where you can improve and generate a training plan. Or scrutinize the data from a research paper and from it generate code for an interactive guide that helps us better understand those studies. In fact, integration with Google Search is an especially important part of Gemini 3, which being “embedded” in AI Mode It has the capacity to generate interactive visual elements (widgets, calculators, simulations) in real time. At Google they want the search to be more interactive than ever, and that will mean that sometimes the answers will not be just text, but rather a small interactive webapp that allows us to better understand the answer. Programming (and agents) to power The other crucial element of the model is its capacity in the area of ​​programming. Its results in tests of this type are once again outstanding, and for example it tops the WebDev Arena leaderboard with a score of 1,487 ELO. The model now behaves much more powerfully in the visual part. It also scores 54.2% on Terminal-Bench 2.0, which evaluates a model’s ability to use tools and operate a computer through a terminal. Additionally, it far outperforms 2.5 Pro in SWE-bench Verified (76.2%), a benchmark test that measures the effectiveness of scheduling agents. These Gemini 3 programming capabilities are intended to be used in a new agent development platform called Google Antigravity. The developer experience is using a “conventional” AI integrated development environment (IDE), but your agents can have access to the editor, terminal, and browser. That means these agents can autonomously plan and execute complex software tasks and validate their own code, making it easier for human developers to review and audit that code than ever before. The real challenge of the most recent models On paper Gemini 3 is postulated as a model that can really make a difference compared to its competitors. The test results and Gemini’s own trajectory make us think that the behavior of this model will indeed be remarkable. However The question is whether we will really notice the difference. In recent months we have seen how other AI companies have launched new models, but the impact for a large majority of users has been discreet: the previous models already performed really well, and although the new ones undoubtedly provide improvements, for many consultations these improvements allow us to perceive that jump in performance. Here we see two ways for Google to effectively demonstrate the capabilities of these models. The first opportunity for Gemini 3 will likely be in the area of ​​programming, and it will be these professionals who will likely be able to get the most out of those additional capabilities. But for the rest of the users, it will be that new AI Mode and the Gemini app that will have to make us notice those features. We are intrigued by this ability to respond with small interactive elements —graphics, widgets—, and perhaps with them we will really discover this new capacity of this chatbot. In Xataka | Let’s say goodbye to Google Assistant a decade later. Google has begun to delete its code to leave only one option: Gemini

analyzes your poop and promises to take care of your health for $600

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Who in their right mind would think of putting a camera in the toilet. If the camera also costs $600, the thing sounds even more crazy. It’s Kohler’s latest idea and it makes more sense than it seems. Monitoring even the poop Smart watches and bracelets have created a whole health monitoring culture. This is what a few years ago we called the ‘I, quantified’but recording the steps was just the beginning. Today any wearable is capable of recording our keystrokes, the blood oxygen level and they also measure our sleep. Where smartwatches or smart rings do not reach, an entire category of health monitoring devices has emerged such as smart scales or Kohler’s proposal with the Dekoda camera. It is not the first in this line, a couple of years ago we already talked about sensor to detect urine withings. Dekoda: the camera that analyzes your bowel movements Kohler is one of the most recognized household products manufacturers in the United States. They recently announced the creation of a new division focused on health and their first product is Dekoda, a camera that is installed in the toilet to record the frequency and characteristics of our bowel movements. Dekoda has “advanced optical sensors and spectroscopywhich effortlessly observe how light interacts with your waste to learn to detect variations that could indicate health problems.” Kohler says that behind Dekoda there are more than 10 years of research to ensure accurate and reliable results. Dekoda comes with a mobile app in which data is transmitted (not photos, thank goodness) and helps detect health problems such as dehydration or presence of blood in the stool, which can be indicative of serious illnesses. It also offers nutritional suggestions and lifestyle changes. To ensure privacy, all content is encrypted and can be protected by fingerprint. It also comes with a remote control that is placed on the wall to scan the fingerprint and thus distinguish between users. The camera is placed on the edge of the toilet bowl (it can be placed in any toilet, it does not have to be from Kohler) and works with a rechargeable battery that we can remove to recharge it. It costs 599 dollarsbut also you must have a subscription to Kohler Health to be able to use the app, so you have to add 70 dollars per year per user or 130 dollars if there are several. Images | Kohler In Xataka | I got my hands on some “sleep headphones” in the hopes of finally falling asleep. It came out regular

We already had an ozempic to lose weight, now someone has created one for the eternal youth: NAD+ promises

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Of the six -digit operations In elite operating rooms to luxury serums That they promise to erase wrinkles in minutes, the eternal youth industry has always played with the same idea: that somewhere there is a shortcut. But what if the secret was not in a cream or in a scalpel, but in a tiny molecule that lives in each of our cells? This is how NAD+is presented, the coenzyme that has gone from being a laboratory concept to become the new biohacking grail. The ozempic of being young. As happened with the GLP-1 drugs in The obsession with thinnessNAD+ has become the aspirational shortcut towards youth. Hollywood and the aesthetic elite have embraced him within the call “Invisible luxury”: undetectable results, continuous maintenance and therapies that combine apparatus with cosmetic biology. In that stew of mass access, supplements and “shots” of NAD+ they occupy the biohacking story. From Hollywood A Amazon. A couple of years ago, Hailey Bieber and Kendall Jenner They popularized Intravenous NAD+therapies, a format that Miami and Dubai clinics sell as an energy and anti -aging “booster”. But it is not just celebrity thing: a search is enough on Amazon to find NMN or NR capsules that promise to raise cell levels. The problem is that, As The New York Times has warnedthe scientific evidence that supports these habits is still weak. In addition, what appears on the label often does not match what is in the bottle. A study led by the gerontologist Andrea Maier detected deviations of up to 100% in the real content of supplements, regardless of brand or price. Shining the NAD+. Better known as Nicotinamide adenine Dinucleotide, is something like the spark that allows our cells to work. It is everywhere, from the muscles to the brain, and According to the University of Navarra Clinic Participate in such critical tasks as producing energy, repairing damaged DNA or activating syruches, proteins linked to aging. The problem is that, over the years, NAD+ levels plummete and begin to relate to memory loss, muscle weakness and an increase in the risk of diseases associated with age. Therefore, raising those levels by precursors such as NR or NMN can keep mitochondria and favor cell longevity. Initial essays, collected by the confidentialThey have documented improvements in memory, movement and metabolism. However, they are small studies and experts They agree that they are missing Essays to convert the promise into solid evidence. Experts ask for prudence. Enthusiasm coexists cautiously. According to the webmd medical portalnicotinamide is safe to 900 mg per day, but high doses can cause headaches, fatigue, gastrointestinal problems or enzymatic alterations. In the case of nicotinic acid, another form of related vitamin B3, can cause redness and decreases in voltage even in moderate doses. The University of Navarra Clinic Explain that Supplements can interact with medications that affect liver or coagulation, so it is recommended to use them only under medical supervision. In a more concrete way, they probably do not damage in moderate doses, but there is also no certainty that it is worth taking risks for something that still has no macros studies. A society in search of shortcuts. NAD+ fever fits into a broader cultural context: obsession with shortcuts against aging. Hollywood has gone from “Frozen faces” from Botox to the “Liquid surgery” And luxury invisible treatments, while the rest of society consumes supplements, Collagen powder and Digital filters as affordable substitutes. And perhaps that distance reveals something deeper: our obsession with shortcuts against the inevitable. The eternal youth industry blooms because we live terrified at the passage of time, as if aging were a failure that must be corrected. But old age is not an anomaly: it is the only certainty we share. Perhaps the real question is not how to avoid it, but why it costs us so much to accept it. Meanwhile, science continues to remember what it works –move, sleep well, Eat better– Although it never sounds as glamorous as a molecule that promises to stop the clock. Image | Pexels and Freepik Xataka | The elixir of eternal youth exists and we are seeing it in real time: luxury surgeons “at $ 100,000 the session

A Spanish company wants to convert the chitamiedos into biker allies. Promises to be as simple as effective

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We are not going to discover anything if we say that chitamiedos are one of the great dangers for motorists and cyclists. For years solutions of all kinds have been sought. Among them have been proposed and installed Save them With double protection, Some even padded To absorb the impact and above all, eliminate the blade effect from the supports. There are also tubular options that follow that same logic of double and lower protection but avoiding the small pillars that can curtail members. Now, a Spaniard has presented a new addition that does not imply a new design of the cloakrooms. In this case, the objective is that emergency services can act faster and, therefore, some times that can be crucial when an accident is suffered. A connected alternative The system is called Plugsmart Pro And it is devised by the University University of Valencia (UPV) in collaboration with the Valenciana Metalese company is based on a similar idea. In this case they use artificial intelligence, environment monitoring systems and bidirectional signaling to alert drivers in real time. The system Analyze Constantly what happens around them and changes their lighting to warn drivers, bikers or cyclists that they approach a dangerous place, in complicated conditions or that there is some obstacle along the way. To do this, use some lights connected to each other that are installed on the wore. These emit a certain halo of light but when the weather conditions are complicated, the light takes strength. It is the simplest function because the truly interesting is in the monitoring of the environment. If the guardraíl detects that another vehicle is approaching, the flashes become more visible to alert who is on the other side of the curve. Also if, for example, there is a damaged vehicle, an injured person or an animal is crossing the road. If the system detects a dangerous object, the intensity of light increases. The invention has won the Ponle Brake Prize for Innovation in Road Safety in 2024 and this year the National Award Award for Conservation Safety. The companions of Motorpasion motorcyclethat from the DGT have already shown their support for the system. And it is that when the last great advantage of the system is that it can notify emergency services in case of accident. The latter is one of the incentives that the DGT has wielded to convince us that the V-16 lights that will be mandatory as of January are better than the classic triangles. That is, the system alerts drivers, cyclists and motorists that They approach a danger and its light adapts to signal its risk. But, in addition, it comes into contact with the authorities in case of detecting a blow with the intention that the response time from the accident warning to its performance is as much as possible. Photo | Miraxh Tereziu and Metals In Xataka | Spain has a problem with old motorcycles: they neither pass the ITV nor are they a maintenance day

A new generation of robots promises precision and efficiency. It also opens the door to cyberspage risks

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The movement of the robotic arm seems impeccable: each turn, each clamp, each displacement occurs with the accuracy of a metronome. However, while these actions convey confidence in a hospital or a factory, another story is drawn in the background. The commands, although encrypted, let rhythms and pauses In the traffic that travels through the network. These patterns, invisible to the naked eye, in many cases allow to deduce the task executed. The same accuracy that we applaud in the robot can become a trace for external observers. Over the last years the interest in collaborative robots has shot himself. Hospitals are used as surgical assistants for their ability to make fine movements without fatigue, and in factories they have become allies for repetitive or risk tasks. Not only do productivity improve, they also reduce accidents by replacing the operator in hostile environments. The connectivity that drives its expansion, however, is also the one that can expose them to new vulnerability scenarios, According to a study in the University of Waterlooin Canada. Precision that dazzles in hospitals, a trail that can be interpreted The investigation did not focus on real -time robots by means Preprogrammed scripts. These systems receive an orders sequence and execute them with minimal human intervention, which reduces direct supervision and expands automation possibilities. At the same time, the way in which these systems structure high -level commands generates regular traffic patterns, and that regularity opens opportunities for analysis. The work was designed with a very concrete scenario: a passive attacker, someone who only observes the network traffic between the robot and its controller without deciphering it. The experiment was carried out with an arm Kinova Gen3a light robot usually used in research environments. The controller executed preprogrammed commands and the communications were protected with TLS encryption. With this assembly, the researchers registered 200 network traces corresponding to four different actions, looking for a varied and representative set. The authors began by converting network catches into temporary signals: instead of looking at the content of the packages, they analyzed when each one was sent and with what separation. Those time series were treated as acoustic signs, which allowed to apply classic signal processing techniques, such as correlation and convolution, which seek similarities and patterns in pulses and rhythms. From this transformation they trained a classifier that, in the closed environment of the test, assigned an action to each trace. The experiment used 200 traces on four actions and showed that, even with activated TLS, temporary subpatrones were detectable. Kinova Gen3 The trials showed that the method worked with remarkable efficiency: in most tests the system was able to identify the robot action with a success level close to 97%. This means that, although the orders travel encrypted by TLS, the observation of the intervals and the cadence can allow to rebuild what task it is executed. In a hospital, that could give clues about the nature of an intervention; In a factory, on the production sequence. A complete deduction is not always achieved, but the finding shows that the encryption alone is not enough. Although orders travel encrypted by TLS, the observation of the intervals and cadence can allow to rebuild what task it is executed. The finding acquires relevance to extrapolating it to real environments. In health, an attacker could identify details of a surgical intervention without the need to access the medical history, only observing the robot communication flows. In the industry, the patterns themselves could reveal assembly steps or Characteristics of a patented process. It is not an isolated failure of a specific model, but an alert signal on how connectivity multiplies the exposure. Each connected robot becomes a possible observation point. The researchers did not limit themselves to pointing out the problem: they also explored possible defenses. One of them is to modify the timing of the robot programming interface, so that the commands do not follow such a regular and predictable pattern. Another is to apply package filling and timing manipulation to hide the real rhythms. These measures could reduce the inference capacity of an attacker, although with a cost: lower network efficiency and, in some cases, more latency in the execution of the robot. Technological innovation always advances in parallel to the need to protect it. Cobots exemplify that balance: they promise efficiency and new forms of work, but also force rethink defense measures. It is not about stopping its adoption, but about doing it with a conscious look of the risks. Security and development are not opposite paths; They must travel together if you want the future of robotics to be sustainable and reliable. Images | Kinova Robotics (1, 2) | Freepik In Xataka | Alibaba is becoming the Ai Open Source sponator. Your family of Qwen models is putting the market above

The new aesthetic luxury of “liquid surgery” that promises what the Botox no longer sells

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In the new economy of the “invisible luxury”, the object of desire no longer hangs from the arm: it melts with the skin. Instead of great transformations, the aspiration is that “it is not noticed.” A lifting without scars, a brightness that looks like a repair dream. In that league the newly baptized “liquid surgery” plays: four -digit facials that promise a Botox effect without needles or rigidity. A new trend. After the rejuvenated reappearance of Lindsay Lohan, a reporter from The Times He went to the most exclusive spa by Beverly Hills to test the “MBR Best and Ultimate Liquid Surgery”, a 995 -dollar protocol. The session includes cleaning, toning, hyaluronic acid masks and, above all, the application of a star serum: 1,784 pounds the 50 ml bottle, sold as “viper venom imitator” to achieve a “more subtle” botulin toxin effect. The journalist described a “striking” difference after applying the product in half face and collected that the usual clientele includes local elites and celebrities that repeat monthly and complement at home. The text itself points out that the term “liquid surgery” was coined by a German marketing department: there is no scalpel, but a high -cost cosmetic ritual with immediate results. The spa presents it as the “less invasive” route towards the good face effect that was previously associated with visible injectables. Aesthetic luxury changes the skin. The turn responds to a broader trend: undetectable results. As we have detailed in Xatakathe deep flat lifting – which repositions muscles and ligaments in block to avoid rigidity – has become the standard among star surgeons. The effects last between 10 and 15 years, but prices easily exceed six figures. Given this situation, Botox has lost part of the story. In a report for Women’s Health They have described as Jennifer Aniston He has recognized that he tried the injections, but abandoned them for considering them “ridiculous” in excess. Instead, combine facials, lasers and radiofrequency (Themage) with a healthy lifestyle. The narrative now relies on bioestimulators: polynucleotides derived from salmon DNA (PDRN) that promise cellular hydration and regeneration, or exosomes, small vesicles that act as regenerative “messengers”. He Glow discreet becomes symbolic capital. Towards combined protocols. The immediate future points to repeatable treatments, expensive and continuous maintenance, which mixes apparatus (laser, radiofrequency) and cosmetic biology (polynucleotides, exosomes). That is today the “toolbox” that celebrities present as an alternative to click or go through an operating room with public visibility. On the cusp, the elite scalpel continues to mark status; At the base, four -digit facials sell the “invisible effect” in cabin format. This is how the term coined as “liquid surgery” fits at that intersection. The problems that are coming. The boom of “liquid surgery” and other less invasive treatments drag shadows that should look straight ahead: from the regulatory vacuum to unequal aesthetic pressure. On the one hand, The Newbeauty Portal Document The case of Victoria Nelsona client that denounced burns and scars after a “high -power” peeling and microneedling years performed, allegedly, out of the legal reach of a aestheticist in California. Dermatologists consulted recalled that procedures such as medical peels, microneedling, lasers or injections should be carried out in clinical environments and under medical supervision. A peeling, they underlined, is not a ritual of beauty but a “controlled chemical burn” that, if it runs badly, can leave irreversible sequelae. The case illustrates a hole between marketing, licenses and security. On the other hand, in other types of treatments science does not support a promise. Polynucleotides –extracted from salmon DNA and increasingly present in elite clinics– They have biological base and even a previous medical use in wounds and burns. Side effects, when injected, are usually mild (bruises, swelling), but robust studies are missing that support their long -term benefits. It also happens with exosomes that it is still consolidating in the scientific field and with collagen supplements, where the benefits are modest or contradictory and many studies have been financed by the brands themselves. There is an even broader background. The aesthetic pressure is not limited to the cabin of a spa. The cultural narrative has oscillated from Body Positive to ultra -launching standardsamplified by Fashionable thinning drug and Digital filters that multiply impossible expectations. In this field, scrutiny is deeply unequal. They carry the demand to stay young and with a double penalty: both those who are operated and those who decide not to do so are criticized. Sarah Jessica Parker has been insulted for showing wrinkles, while Pamela Anderson was criticized for exhibiting her naturalness without makeup. Men, on the other hand, usually enjoy indulgence: names such as Brad Pitt, Tom Cruise or Bradley Cooper have starred in speculation about touch -ups, but rarely face the same public trial. Even the data shows the gap: As we have pointed out in XatakaLiftings in men grew by 26 % between 2022 and 2024, but the media account presented them as a simple “set -up”, not as an “aesthetic obsession.” The result: eternal youth remains a female demand and an optional option for them. An eternal youth with conditions. The snake venom facial in Beverly Hills is more than an aesthetic whim. Summarizes a global trend: displacement towards less invasive procedures, more expensive and with an aura of exclusivity. An eternal youth reserved for those who can pay it, while the rest of society consumes supplements, collagen powder and digital filters as substitutes. The question, however, is still open: are these advances a real scientific revolution or a marketing mirage? Maybe how did The Times the chronicler When leaving the spa, the eternal youth does exist, but it costs the same as thirty beers in an airport. And, above all, it is still a luxury with class, gender and power more visible gender than any wrinkle. Image | Freepik Xataka | Surgeons are facing a new challenge: patients who want to resemble their double created by AI

The digital kit promises to digitize SMEs and freelancers and “give them” a Macbook Air. There is a lot of small print

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On paper the Digital kit It doesn’t seem a bad idea. The government’s proposal, managed by Red.esgrants a series of subsidies to facilitate the “digital transformation” of SMEs and freelancers. Or what is the same: that small businesses and people “in self -employment” can for example have their website, their online store and even access the subsidy of a macbook air m4 that seems to leave “free”. Except that it does not go free. Not much less. Subsidies for digital transformation The program, promoted by Red.es and the Ministry for Digital Transformation and Public Function, aims to “digitize” SMEs and adapt them to new times. Source: Red.es Financing comes from the Next Generation EU program of the European Union, and to start it up they were established different segments of beneficiaries that depended on the size of the SMEs or whether you were autonomous. The calls for almost all segments have been ending over the last months, but there is one that remains active: that of segment III, dedicated to SMEs from zero to three employees and also autonomous. The maximum amount of the subsidy for this segment is 3,000 euros, and is divided into two items. The first, with a subsidy of up to 2,000 euros can be used to commission the development of a web page (“basic internet presence”) or an online store (“Marketplace”). The second, which is becoming a claim on social networks, is a subsidy of up to 1,000 euros for the acquisition of a “safe job”which normally translates into a PC or portable. An important detail here: you can not ask for only the computer for the computer, and this can only be requested as a complement to the subsidy for the website or online store mentioned above. To access the program and get those “digital bonds” of up to 3,000 euros the process, explained in a PDFIt is theoretically simple. Just access the web accelerapyme.escomplete a “self -diagnosis test” and request help Digital kit through the form of the Red.es electronic headquarters. From there we will have to get in touch with a “digitizer agent”which will be the intermediary through which this “digital transformation” of our business is carried out. It is they who provide us with services (or manage that a third party provide them) and that they also take care of the acquisition of the famous portable of 1,000 euros. It is possible to become one of these digitalizing agents through the aforementioned Electronic Headquarters of Red.es, and In another guide in PDF It explains how to log in. A digitizer agent tells us the reality of the digital kit program As we say, on paper everything seems correct, but in practice the digital kit program has become a source of controversy that affects both parties, both those who have asked for those subsidies and to those who have managed them. To know from within what is happening we have talked to Pablo F. Iglesiasfounder of the consultant Cyberbainers that among other things achieved homologation for the digital kit. He has suffered the “small print” of this project as well as a service provider as a couple of a person who requested them. After this time offering their services, he tells us how his feeling is that there were “too many used who have seen in the program a quick business opportunity.” It is a message that others have shared such as Jaime Gómez-Obregón, which explained in x How a microenterprise “sold” hundreds of digital kit projects by subcontracting websites to freelancers in South America, which ended up promoting “Business models of using and throwing”. Iglesias also indicated how there have been large companies that They have taken advantage of the program to capture new customers as part of your service offer. In both cases the impact has been mostly negative. There are many the Complaints in social networks that They speak of Scams Related and how it has been seen that frequently the quality of the web pages or online stores created was very low, they were often “clones” of other web pages with minimal modifications that did not justify the 2,000 euros of the subsidy. For churches there is another additional problem: “Although they grant, for example, 6,000 euros to your company, the categories are limited to maximum expenses. Insufficient expenses to provide a service of twelve months, which encourages, by the structure of the subsidy itself, that the quality of the service is very but very low … or an economic agreement is reached outside the digital kit contract.” Iglesias himself explained that with 2,000 euros it is practically impossible for someone to “make you a professional website, give you basic services of backups, maintenance and monthly SEO work for 12 months.” Even so, he emphasizes, this program has caused the foam “alleged marketing agencies that They are dedicated to riding clonic WordPress With free templates in an afternoon, financing with the digital kit. “Although these pages do not position well in front of the competition, in the eyes of the program they have fulfilled the work,” and as the type client to which they van do not understand anything in the digital world, because it cooks. “ Free laptop myth In recent days we have started to see frequently on social networks like Tiktok Publications of accounts that They talked of The easy What was it get a macbook air m4 “free” subsidized by digital kit. But all these messages are misleading advertising, since although the digital kit program subsidizes these teams, who want to take advantage of this option will have to be very attentive to the small print. To start, because That subsidy does not cover VATand here Iglesias points to how “the state always wins.” To get the laptop we have to ask both the subsidy of 1,000 euros for the “safe job” and the 2,000 euros for the creation of a website or, as many of those ads sell, the start -up of … Read more

In 2017, four Australians revolutionized video games. ‘Silksong’ and its ‘Coca-Cola formula’ promises to repeat it

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It is an absolute barbarity, but thousands of video games are thrown every year. The vast majority pass without penalty or glory because we do not have time for everything, but in 2017 a game was launched that shook the segment as an earthquake: ‘Hollow Knight’. An indie title slipped among the great productions of that year thanks to two words: ‘Game Feel’, and in 2019 it was announced that it would have a continuation called ‘Silksong’. Six years later, ‘Silksong’ has become a memebut also in one of the most anticipated launches of 2025 and the absolute star of the great European video game event, the Gamescom. And, finally, ‘Silksong’ has a release date. Without surroundings. When it was learned that ‘Silksong’ would be in Gamescom 2025, the community was excited. This is the perfect frame to show material of a game that, in all these years, has peeked the leg with dropper and, above all, the best time to give a release date. They have done it through a trailer in which we can see the game in action and that expected date: September 4 of this year. Now yes: {“Videid”: “x9p7eki”, “Autoplay”: True, “Title”: “Hollow Knight: Silksong – Trailer Release”, “Tag”: “”, “Duration”: “113”} Earthquake. If you like video games, but the indie scene catches something far away, we go with a little context. ‘Silksong’ is the independent sequel to the aforementioned ‘Hollow Knight’, a game that was born in a Kickstarter campaign, like many others, but unlike many, came to fruition not only in financing, but in recognition. They waited $ 35,000 to give light to the project and reached almost 60,000. Team Cherry was the name of the study and, at the beginning, was composed of two developers: Ari Gibson and William Pellem, but with that extra money, they hired David Kazi as technical director already Chris Larkin as composer and audio designer. Its creation was a ‘Metroidvania’ with an extremely spoiled design and, after a PC launch, it took 15 months to reach one million copies sold. It is not something that all games get, but ‘Hollow Knight’ was very, very good and mouth to mouth worked wonderfully. So much that, when a year later it came out on switch, It took just two weeks in selling more than 250,000 copies. He also reached Xbox One and PS4 and, in addition, with physical versions for the three consoles. In Xataka If there was a museum to the prettiest games, these 28 would be in it The Coca-Cola formula. In it analysis of my 3DJUEGOS companions or in that of my compis of Lifextra They already get rid of praise towards the game, but what I want to contribute is that, much of the success of ‘Hollow Knight’ is due to something that, in video games, is known as ‘Game Feel’. This is that feeling that awakens the title when we have the command between hands, the feedback we receive when performing any action and that keeps us ‘hooked’. In the case of ‘Hollow Knight’, the extremely ‘fine’ controlññ in the platform part has much of the fault, but I consider that it is the fight that really makes a difference. When we attack, the sound is pleasant, the blow feels powerful thanks to both the sound effect and to the particles on screen or that the enemy goes back a few steps due to the forcefulness of the blow and, in addition, the vibrate chamber. Together, it is a dopamine chute for our brain, which only thinks about getting more of those, and it is something that is only achieved if we continue playing. In a nutshell, playing ‘Hollow Knight’ introduces us to a flow state as few games get. THE HYPE TRAIN. Like ‘Super Metroid’ or ‘Symphony of the Night’ in its day, or the Spanish ‘Blasphemous’ more recently,’ Hollow Knight has served as influence for many games developed in recent years. And, being so dear, when in 2019 it was announced that They were working in a sequel Independent with a character we already knew, Hornet, madness broke out. The problem? In these six years we have seen ‘Silksong’ in presentations such as Rog Xbox Ally or in the Nintendo Switch 2but barely passed and without being shown in any case new material, since the same year of presentation already a demo was shown… and since then we have been waiting. And the problem is not so much that there is something wrong within Team Cherry, but in the community we got anxious for each possible novelty of ‘Silksong’ and, in each Nintendo event, the thought circulated in networks of “In this we are going to see it” for, when we had no news, some would always end up putting an image turned into meme and icon clown wig. The meme of each presentation for. Six. Years. ‘Silksong‘. But ‘Silksong’ was alive and Team Cherry has been working all these years in the new installment. I don’t want to imagine the pressure That all this journey since the presentation in 2019 has been supposed for the Australian study, but what has already been played in Gamescom 2025 makes it clear that ‘Silksong’ is not ‘Hollow Knight 2’. While 2017 put us at the controls of a “heavy” and forceful character, almost like a tank, ‘Silksong’ puts us to Hornet’s control, much more athletic and skilled. But what seems not to change at all is that ‘Game Feel’ that marked ‘Hollow Knight’. And, if not only have they managed to maintain those sensations, but have given them a twist thanks to the kinetesia of the new character, ‘Silksong’ only has one destination: selling to espuertas and becoming another milestone of the independent scene. Hype will also help this, of course, but just a few days left to put your hands on top. 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