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We believed that açaí was pure Instagram posturing. Science has just confirmed that it is a nutritional beast

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In the era of well-being, we have become accustomed to seeing how our social networks are flooded with exotic and aesthetic foods. We have shied away from a sedentary lifestyle and have embraced trends that a few years ago seemed impossible to find. It happened with matcha tea, with coconut milk and, in recent years, the undisputed king of healthy “posturing” has been açaí, omnipresent in bowls colorful ones promoted by nutrition gurus. However, what seemed to be simply another fad imported from the United States has just made the definitive leap to mass consumption in Spain. Mercadona has joined this fever by launching an açaí sorbet with guarana flavor for this summer. The democratization of this product raises an inevitable question: behind this commercial and aesthetic maelstrom, are there real benefits or is it just smoke? The medical evidence is resounding: we are facing a superfood that literally crushes historical competitors such as blueberries. The true story of açaí. To understand the phenomenon, we must first clarify what exactly we are eating. The açaí (Euterpe oleracea) It’s not technically a berry.but a drupe (a fruit with a large central stone that occupies up to 80% of its volume). It grows high on palm trees in the rainforests of the central and South American Amazon, where it has been a staple food for indigenous communities for centuries. Why don’t we see it fresh in our neighborhood fruit shop? The answer is logistics. The fresh açaí It has a very short useful life and it spoils in just 24 hours after harvesting. Therefore, the only way to export it is through frozen pulp or freeze-dried powder. A true antioxidant bomb. The aesthetics of Instagram initially overshadowed what the medical community has long studied in amazement. “It is fashionable, yes, but it also has more antioxidants than blueberries,” says Dr. Sara Marín Berbell forcefully. in Women’s Health. The key to its power lies in anthocyanins, the plant pigment that gives it its characteristic dark purple color and that protects our cells against oxidative damage responsible for premature aging. Its nutritional profile is a rarity in the world of fruit. As health portals such as Healthlineaçaí is unusually high in healthy fats and very low in sugar (it barely contains about 2 grams per 100 naturally). Additionally, registered dietitian Julia Zumpano explains in Cleveland Clinic that açaí is rich in phytosterols, plant compounds that block the absorption of cholesterol into the bloodstream, protecting our cardiovascular health. Its impact goes further. It is an exceptional ally for blood sugar control; Its glycemic index is only 24, well below the 72 for watermelon or the 75 for white bread. And if that were not enough, its polyphenols act as a powerful prebiotic. By reaching the colon almost intact, they serve as a banquet for our microbiota, strengthening the intestinal barrier. On a neurological level, the antioxidants in açaí help protect brain cells from oxidative stress that leads to cognitive decline. The supermarket trap. With such an impeccable medical resume, it’s easy to fall into the trap of thinking that any product with the word “açaí” on its label is healthy. And this is where experts issue a serious warning about its arrival in supermarkets and cafes. Mercadona’s recent sorbet has set off alarms among nutritionists. Dietitian Miguel Ángel Ruiz remove your labela: “If we look at the nutritional value we see that for every 100 grams it contains 11 grams of sugar (…) Natural fruit has around 2 or 3 grams.” Although the first ingredient is açaí pulp (55%), sugar comes in third place. For his part, nutritionist Carlos Ríos add in The Mail that the product includes problematic emulsifiers, such as carboxymethyl, which is inflammatory and alters the microbiota. It spreads in cafes. Dietitian Julie Harrington warns in EatingWell that the famous açaí bowls They can quickly become high-calorie bombs if they are not prepared carefully, especially when locals use sugary bases or abuse syrups and toppings. The solution? Go to supermarkets that offer real and pure alternatives, such as the 100% frozen açaí tablets with no added sugar sold by Alcampo, allowing the consumer to prepare their own truly healthy version at home. Purple gold at the crossroads. The impact of açaí has ​​transcended our diets to become a matter of State and ecological survival. The figures it moves (it is estimated that it generates more than a billion dollars annually worldwide) have attracted the attention of large corporations. According to reports France 24earlier this year Brazil declared açaí its “national fruit” in a desperate attempt to shield itself from international biopiracy. The danger is real since in 2003, a Japanese company registered the “açaí” trademark, and it took years of litigation to regain control of the name. But the secret of açaí does not lie only in the palm tree, but in those who take care of it. Research from the scientific journal Springer has revealed that the true heroines Behind this superfood are the native stingless bees (meliponines) of the Amazon. These insects are responsible for 60% of fruit pollination. This ecosystem has created a fascinating bioeconomy. How it documents Mongabay, Amazonian families are abandoning livestock farming and deforestation to dedicate themselves to the sustainable cultivation of açaí and the breeding of these bees. The propolis generated by these insects, enhanced by the pollen of the açaí palm tree, has been shown in clinical trials to have healing and anti-inflammatory properties comparable to commercial medications, opening a new economic avenue through natural cosmetics that protects, instead of destroying, the jungle. A superfood, not a miracle. In short, science has confirmed that açaí is, deservedly, a “purple gold.” Its cardiovascular, neurological and antioxidant benefits are not a mirage created by social networks. However, rigor requires caution. The expert Julia Zumpano He is categorical when it comes to rejecting the famous “detox diets” based exclusively on taking açaí supplements, warning that they lack scientific evidence and can be dangerous. As Dr. Marín … Read more

Promotional notifications have become pure spam. And often we cannot deactivate them without losing important

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In August 2023 I asked Wallapop in X to stop sending absurd notifications of the type “Hello! How are you today? Have you slept like a baby?”. It is the most extreme example, due to its absurdity, that I remember of an endemic evil of our era: abuse of notifications until they become another form of spam. Almost three years later, this problem is getting worse in the app industry, not less. The bank notifies me about home insurance before relevant events. Uber Eats offers me 30% on burgers I haven’t ordered. Spotify promotes a podcast to me that I don’t listen to. The situation has a technical name, notification fatigue, and an apparent solution: deactivate them. There’s the catch. I can’t mute my bank’s promotions without also missing the notice of a suspicious charge. I can’t turn off the offers from the company that brings me dinner without being blindsided by the delivery person. Apps purposely mix transactional and advertising in the same channel, and rarely let you separate them without digging into the settings. You choose between two evils: put up with the spam or be left without the ads that matter. This did not happen with SMS because sending an SMS cost money, although they were cheaper when sending mass messages. This minimum cost forced the issuer to think if it was worth it. He push it’s free. Sending you a hundred notifications costs the same as sending you one, so saturation is in the end the rational strategy of those who cannot conceive the inconvenience. Apple expressly prohibits promotional notifications without opt-in since 2020 and Google has similar policies, but brands avoid them by disguising advertising as transactional (“your order is ready… and look at this 2×1”) or directly sending nonsense, because nobody audits anything. It is the same landscape as that of public transport: signs asking for silence, reserved seats, clear rules and no one enforcing them. They are there to make things beautiful. And while, We have normalized that the bank that holds our money sends us advertising through the most intimate channel of the mobile phone, at no cost to him and at all costs to us. We continue deactivating notifications one by one, app by app, in which they allow us to segment by type of notification even if we search, until one day we miss something that did matter. That’s the part that doesn’t appear on any conversion panel. In Xataka | There is a generation working for free as a documentarian of their own life: they are not influencers but they act as if they were. Featured image | Xataka

We have been thinking for 40 years that Spain escaped Chernobyl because it was far away. AEMET has discovered that it was pure luck

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“When the lava enters the tanks, it will cause approximately 7,000 cubic meters of water to overheat and evaporate, causing a significant thermal explosion. Our estimates are between two and four megatons. It will destroy absolutely everything within a 30-kilometer radius, including the three remaining reactors at Chernobyl. Then, all the radioactive material in the nuclei will be ejected with virulence and propagated by a large seismic wave. It can reach approximately 200 kilometers and could be lethal to the entire population of kyiv and much of Minsk. The radiation release will be immense and will impact Soviet Ukraine, Latvia, Lithuania, Belarus, as well as Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Romania and East Germany.” Since, to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the Chernobyl disaster, AEMET published meteorological reconstruction that explained why Spain was left out of the radioactive cloud that affected a good part of Europe, I can’t forget those words from the miniseries which HBO released a few years ago. Mostly because it was pure luck. Pure luck? But Ukraine is very far away. That’s what we used to think, that Spain was spared the hardest part of the Chernobyl hit because we were so far away. However, data from meteorologist Benito Jose Fuentes They say something else: three successive atmospheric reconfigurations that, at the critical moment, sent the radioactive cloud in another direction. But let’s go step by step. Indeed, on April 26, 1986, the Chernobyl nuclear power plant became an unstable “pressure cooker” whose explosion spread radiation throughout much of the continent. In fact, that radiation reached Spain shortly after: there is evidence of air filters in Valencia that detected the radioactivity on May 2, 3 and 4. However, we avoided the worst of the blow. According to Fuentes Lópezthe peninsula was at least twice (on April 29 and the days before May 2) “one turn of the wind” away from receiving a direct blow. Reconstructing the disaster. Sources Lopez has published a simplified simulation that reconstructs on a cartographic scale the evolution of the wind at medium and high levels of the atmosphere. This simulation is what gives us the fundamental keys. To begin with, at midday on April 26, a high pressure ridge extended between the Chernobyl zone and Scandinavia. This caused the winds (at 1,700 meters above sea level) to channel the pollutants to the north and Belarus, the Baltic republics, Sweden and Finland took the first hit. The world found out what was happening, precisely, through the sensors of a Swedish nuclear power plant two days later. Spain plays it. On April 29, the pattern changed and a storm in the Mediterranean (and a ridge in Portugal) turned the wind towards Central Europe. According to Fuentes López’s simulations, with this new direction it was a matter of hours before the radioactivity reached Spain. However, between May 1 and 2, a trough pushed the radioactive cloud towards Great Britain (and the Portuguese ridge acted as a wall that diverted the rest of the smaller clouds towards Italy and the Balkans). A reminder. The curious thing about all this is that, according to AEMET datathe dispersion was due to higher atmospheric waves at high levels and not to surface patterns such as storms and anticyclones. That is to say, the work (in addition to a mind-blowing work of atmospheric history) is a reminder that we normally relate to a small part of the weather. That, of course, is a mistake. The atmosphere is a very complex creature full of levels, teleconnections and strange relationships. We are at stake understanding it better. And I am no longer talking about climate change, or phenomena of that type. I’m saying that in most cases, as we already explained many expertsthe profound psychological, social and cultural consequences “turned out to be a much bigger problem than the radiation.” At the climatic level they will also be. And we really don’t know how to handle them well. Image | AEMET In Xataka | We believed that the “elephant’s foot” was the most radioactive point in Chernobyl reactor 4. we were wrong

It is pure resilience in the face of a broken world.

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If you were born between the early 80s and mid-90s, it is very likely that you have already crossed the barrier of 30 years (or even 40) and still have a controller on your living room table. Traditionally, society has stigmatized this habit in adulthood, calling it “Peter Pan syndrome”, immaturity or inability to assume real-life responsibilities because ‘playing games at 30 is not normal’. However, science and sociology They have a radically different perspective.: It’s not immaturity, it’s pure resilience. A frustration. These stigmas that are on the table, the truth is that they are very established (especially among the elderly), thinking that video games are only for the youngest, but the reality is that a video game is a creative work such as a book, a series or a movie. But the stigma that continuing to play at 30 or 40 is an ‘immature’ attitude is still on the table, and psychology has said something very different. Its origin. To understand why millennials cling to interactive entertainment, you must first understand their economic reality. The prestigious Harvard University economist, Raj Chetty, document in 2017 a devastating phenomenon: the plummet of absolute social mobility. And while those born in 1940 had between a 90 and 91% chance of surpassing their parents’ income, for those born in 1980 this success rate plummeted to a mere 50%. And we are facing a generation that was promised that higher education and constant effort would guarantee its economic prosperity, but the reality has been marked by a financial crisisjob insecurity and a real estate market that generated a deep feeling of deception. The well-being. In a living environment where control is minimal, video games offer fair systems, clear rules and rewards proportional to the effort made. This was evidenced in a macro investigation published in March 2025 where it is categorically denied that playing is “unhealthy escapism.” After analyzing over 140,000 hours of data of Nintendo players, the OII concluded that gaming time does not correlate negatively with mental health. What really matters is the “quality” of the game, since players who report positive motivations, such as the autonomy to make their own decisions or the feeling of feeling that they are improving, see their general well-being increase. More well-being. This is a thesis that has been consolidated for a long time, since in 2021 another study analyzed 39,000 Animal Crossing or Plants vs Zombies players, concluding that playing more hours was correlated with better emotional well-being. Many advantages of playing. Video games not only relieve stress, they shape our ability to deal with adversity. According to a 2018 survey50% of millennials surveyed said they played games daily to relax and relieve stress. But even more revealing is the 47% of participants who said that the success they had achieved in video games increased their confidence in solving problems in real life. There are better genres. A 2022 study showed that multiplayer games improve our social connection, while RPGs are strongly linked to improvements in autonomy and competence, especially in women. And surprisingly, even the survival horror have been shown to have cathartic benefits. In this way, dedicating an hour a day to playing is related to adult profiles that are more sociable, optimistic and, above all, more emotionally resilient than those who do not play at all. Your conclusion. In this way, the set of several articles with a high reputation behind them suggests that adults who dedicate their free time to exploring large maps, managing virtual farms or completing raids with their friends are not running away from their responsibilities due to immaturity. They are using tools to regain their mental health or satisfy their psychological needs like someone watching a series on Netflix when they get home from work. And no one tells these last people that they are immature. In Xataka | If the question is “how does Nintendo make money” the answer is not video games: it is a much more ambitious emporium

We thought that in prehistory people ate pure meat. The burnt bottom of a pot just showed that we were refined chefs

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For years, popular culture has sold us the image of a prehistoric man whose diet was based almost exclusively on devouring large amounts of roast meat. However, science has been dismantling this myth for years, and now a study has analyzed the remains embedded in ancient vessels, which is the equivalent of ‘socarrat‘of Valencian paella. And the results suggest that our ancestors were, in reality, extremely creative cooks. What has been seen. Beyond what we think, that the prey of the day was hunted and immediately roasted on the fire, science has proven that European hunters almost 8,000 years ago combined freshwater fish with a wide variety of vegetables, using advanced culinary techniques to improve flavors and neutralize toxins. Something similar to what we do today in the kitchen, as reported by El País. Where did we see it? The study, with Spanish participation, reached this conclusion without having to search in the fossilized bones, but in something much more subtle such as the scabs of charred food adhered to 85 ceramic fragments that come from 13 archaeological sites in northern and eastern Europe. How it was done. Once these remains were located, it was decided to apply cutting-edge technology, such as scanning electron microscopy combined with molecular analysis of these remains. Until now, plant remains in archeology used to be underestimated because they degrade much faster than animal bones. But the electron microscope has revealed an astonishing level of detail, detecting plant cell tissues and microscopic fish scales that have been able to survive millennia thanks to being burned and adhering to clay. The results. With all these techniques we have been able to answer what was cooked in those clay pots, and the truth is that we must forget the idea of ​​​​having a piece of meat on the fire, but instead recipes have been revealed that meticulously mixed proteins and carbohydrates. The researchers were able to see remains of freshwater fish here, highlighting carp and barbel, leafy vegetables such as spinach, roots and bulbs such as beets, and also berries. Viburnum opulus. A prehistoric chef. Perhaps the most fascinating discovery of González Carretero’s team is the sophistication of the culinary techniques, since the berries of Viburnum opulus They are known to be slightly toxic when raw and have a tremendously acidic and bitter taste. However, prehistoric inhabitants discovered that by simmering them in a broth with high-fat fish, the bitterness was neutralized, making them digestive and safe for human consumption. And this mixture was not accidental, but a handed down recipe that always sought to improve the flavor. Culinary revolution. This work joins a growing wave of studies that are rewriting the history of our diet. Already in 2018 it was published in PNAS the discovery of the oldest “bread” in the world in Jordan, baked 14,400 years ago, long before agriculture was invented. But now these food remains point to the fact that the so-called paleo diet did not exist as they wanted to sell it to us. We learned that our ancestors knew their environment perfectly, mastered the processing of toxic plants and spent time preparing complex stews where vegetables and tubers were main dishes, not a simple garnish. Cover | Generated with Nano Banana 2 In Xataka | We have been relying on the Nutri-Score in stores for years. Science believes that its real impact is zero

the first large pure hydrogen turbine to fight renewable waste

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Talking about renewable energies is talking about China. Although they continue to burn coal and gas and want to become an oil power, the country is positioning itself as the major player in renewables. Also of the ‘megastructures’. And, combining both, we have Jupiter I. It is the first 30 MW class turbine in the world that works with pure hydrogen, it has just been launched. light and they aspire for it to be the solution to one of the biggest renewable energy problems. Take advantage of surplus energy. Jupiter I. Like practically everything that has to do with energy and China, the numbers of this plant are, to say the least, striking. Now we will get into the fact that it is the first 30 MW class turbine that runs on pure hydrogen. There are others in the world that operate in pilot mode on a scale of 5 or 10 MW, but they are natural gas turbines that have been converted. Jupiter I has been designed from the ground up as a pure hydrogen machine that, in combined cycle mode, can generate 48 MWh. It is estimated that it is enough to satisfy the daily demand of more than 5,500 homes. Those responsible for the turbine they claim that the machine “can use more than 30,000 m³ of hydrogen per hour, which calculated annually is the equivalent of 500 million kWh.” In perspectiveit’s like filling the gigantic Hindenburg airship 25 times every hour. And the key to this is that it is electricity stored in the form of hydrogen pure hydrogen. Although it has not fully caught on in sectors such as utility vehicles, hydrogen has the potential to be one of the fuels that helps achieve decarbonization objectives. It all depends on its color: green is achieved through renewable energy and black through burning coal, for example. Turbines are classified according to the type of fuel they burn and the percentage of hydrogen in the mixture. There are those that use only up to 20% H2, others that use 50% H2 and those that use pure hydrogen, which operate entirely with this fuel. They are usually pilot or demonstration units, but Jupiter 1 is the first of its kind in which all its systems (combustion chamber, injection and flame control) are optimized for that fuel. Megaplant. The turbine is not isolated. It is located in Ordos, Inner Mongolia, and is part of a larger system. It is inside a 500 MW wind farm. It is not an astronomical figure considering what we are used to, but it is important to remember that not all the energy produced by renewables is stored correctly. Much of it is wasted, either because there are not enough batteries, or because it is not consumed when needed or because it is stored and lost. How it works. That’s where Jupiter I comes into play. The system works through a kind of closed cycle of electricity – hydrogen – electricity. When wind turbines generate more energy than the grid can consume and it is not going to be stored in batteries, turbines like this one can use that excess to produce green hydrogen. Once produced, it is stored in tanks, and at the Ordos plant there are a dozen of 1,875 m3 each. If the grid is stable and can operate well with renewables, that hydrogen is stored there, but in times of greater demand or when renewables cannot satisfy it, that stored green hydrogen comes into play to produce emissions-free and immediately accessible electricity. Fighting deserts. Placing a hydrogen turbine right in a renewable plant solves the challenge of wasting electricity, but also that of transporting hydrogen, which we have already seen is complicated. Precisely, that is where those responsible say that the technology has great potential. It is in the deserts where China has found an oasis of renewable energy, and having turbines of this style can further enhance those megascale energy projects – greater than 1 GW – that China is deploying. Now we have to see if it fulfills what it promises, since it is the first of a pilot project, but according to warned by the China National Energy Administration in June this year, it will not be the last. Image | FreePik and Pexels In Xataka | We have known for years that the future of wind power was in the sea and yet only one country has believed it: China

We have been thinking all our lives that prices end in “.99” out of pure psychology. The reason was much more earthly

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The omnipresence of the price ending in .99 (today perceived as a consumer psychology) actually has a very different origin. Before the bias was studied and exploited, the figure was used by a machine to not only shield accounting, but also to found an entire culture of compliance, auditability and commercial discipline. The origin. In business at the end of the 19th century, the problem was not so much convincing the client, but preventing them from the money would disappear before reaching the owner. The cash passed through the hands of waiters and clerks without a trace, and the temptation to “keep some” was structural. The solution was not more human surveillance, but a luck of prosthesis mechanics: a machine that would require each sale to be recorded and that, when opened to make change, will leave an audible signal and a verifiable trail. The price at .99 made it inevitable to open the box to return the cent, forcing registration and eliminating the gap through which the money was lost. Trader with engineering instinct. The seed was born in Dayton from a tavern owner who already came from a family with a vocation to invent. James Rittyfed up with losses in his businesses, saw how a machine counted the revolutions of a propeller and suddenly understood that the same could be done with sales: if something can be counted mechanically, it can be audited. So, he returned to Dayton, worked with his brother John (an experienced mechanic) and built the first sales recorder: keys that represented amounts, a visible dial to check the figure and, later, a drawer with a bell and a scroll that left a physical mark of each transaction. Reproduction of Ritty Dial, an early example of a practical cash register NCR: from machine to industrial culture. Shortly after, when John H. Patterson buys the invention from the brothers and creates the National Cash Registerthe mechanism ceases to be an Ohio bar oddity and becomes a compliance standard in American commerce. The idea thus mutated in the industry. NCR not only manufactured boxes: manufactured method. It introduced a sales school, scripts, discipline, metrics, incentives and exported that corporate DNA via its graduates to other companies such as IBM and General Motors. The cash register It was not just a device: it was a way of governing the organization through material evidence rather than blind trust. National cash register from the late 19th century The .99 changes purpose. Decades later, when the reason anti-corruption was already solved by design, behavioral economics discovers that the .99 deforms the perception of value: anchors in the left figure, suggests a bargain, reduces psychological friction and stimulates impulsive buying. The same accounting gesture was now used for a very different war: it was no longer against theft, but against mental resistance of the buyer. The convention is stabilized because it generates economic margin even when the risk of theft has fallen due to digital processes. The .99 mutates from an anti-fraud technique to persuasion toolmaintaining its validity for a reason radically different from the one for which it was born. The device survives not because of tradition, but because it continues to generate economic advantage under a different paradigm. It survives because it works. The truth is that the .99 has lasted a century and a half because solved two problems different at two different times: first it prevented the seller rob the ownerand then helped the owner persuade the buyer. This double utility explains its persistence. If you will, it is proof of how in commerce what begins as compliance engineering ends as behavioral engineering. And every time today we see 4.99 or 9.99 in sales, we are actually reading (without knowing it) the fingerprint fossil of an invention originally created to close a hole economic before consumer psychologists existed. Codifying discipline. Thus, the box that was invented to catch petty theft It altered the physics of commerce: it introduced traceability, professionalized sales, and bequeathed a pricing convention that still programs how we read money in modern societies. A prosaic problem (a waiter who keeps some coins) inaugurated a causal chain that ended up shaping an entire century of business practice. And in reality, the bell that rang to warn the owner more than a century ago, now also rings, silently, in the consumer’s head every time he sees that .99 and decides that “it is less”…than it really is. Image | Enrique Íñiguez Rodríguez, National Cash Register Company, Wmpearl, Biser Todorov In Xataka | The psychology of pricing: a gigantic list of strategies In Xataka | Psychology has explained why it is so difficult for you to leave a job even if it is toxic: the sunk cost fallacy

why that bright red is pure marketing

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You are in front of the counter. On the left, a bright red, almost advertisement-like steak that screams “eat me, I’m fresh!” On the right, a piece of a duller tone, perhaps a little darker, but streaked with fine white lines. Which one do you choose? Most we launch ourselves into the vibrant red. It’s a reflex action. Although he is not always the smartest. It is something recognized by those who are in contact with this product all day, such as butchers. One of the examples is Mariano Sánchez who told La Vanguardia recognized that customers can pay a lot of attention to the color of the product, but he points out that the real key is in the fat of the fillet. This makes us have an almost obligatory question: is this a simple shopkeeper’s trick or does it have a real scientific basis? The short answer: you are absolutely right. They have been deceiving you, and a protein and a little oxygen are to blame. The myth of bright red. What we associate with “fresh meat” is nothing more than a superficial chemical reaction. The color of meat is determined by a protein called myoglobin.which stores oxygen in the muscle. In this way, when the meat is freshly cut or vacuum packed, the myoglobin is in its natural state (deoxymoglobin) and has a fairly dark purple-red color. And this is not something bad or something that should be despised. But when meat reacts with oxygen in the airthe myoglobin reacts and becomes oxymyoglobin. This compound has the bright cherry red color that attracts us so much. It is literally the ‘blooming’ that occurs on the surface. In short: the color bright red it only indicates that the meat has been in contact with airnot that it is of better quality, more tender or tastier. In fact, a vacuum-packed meat (purple in color) can be much fresher and less oxidized than the one glistening on the tray. The key is fat. This is where the butcher was completely right. What really defines the sensory experience of a good steak is not the color, but intramuscular fatpopularly known as “marbling” or “veining”. We talk about those fine streaks of white fat that infiltrate into the musclenot from the large layer of fat that surrounds it (which is also important to protect the piece, but that’s another story). And fat is responsible for the three most important virtues that we look for in a meat product. The first of them is the flavorsince fat is the vehicle for aromatic compounds, and during cooking this fat melts and releases these molecules, flooding the meat with flavor. A lean meat (without fat) It is, by definition, a meat with less flavor. Juiciness is the most obvious factor related to fat. As it melts, the intramuscular fat “waters” the steak from within, lubricating the muscle fibers and helping to retain water. It’s what makes the difference between a tender bite and a dry piece of cork. Studies on the sensory acceptability of beef show a direct and positive correlation: the more marbling, the higher consumer scores for flavor, juiciness and general acceptance. How to buy meat. So, the next time you go to a butcher shop, you don’t have to look at different points to have the best possible culinary and gustatory result. As summary points we can have the following checklist: Look for marbling: it is the number one quality indicator of a piece of meat. You should always look for pieces with a fine, well-distributed network of white fat veins. Color of fat: Intramuscular fat should be pearly white or, at most, slightly yellowish (something that indicates a step-based diet). What you have to avoid is pink, gray or reddish fats. The texture: a meat should have a firm, dense appearance and a dry surface (or slightly moist, but never sticky). If the mark disappears quickly when you press it with your finger, it is a good sign of freshness. If it is slimy or soft, that is a bad sign. Don’t focus on the color. When you see a piece with a dark, almost maroon color, you should not discard it immediately. This often indicates that it is an older animal or that it has gone through a dry-aging process. In these processes, the meat loses moisture and its own enzymes break down the fibers and increase the tenderness. In short, the color in the end, although it is the letter of presentation of a piece of meat, the reality is that it is not the only factor that directly influences the quality of the product that we are going to put in our mouths. Images | Sergey Kotenev In Xataka | Chicken meat printed in 3D and cooked with lasers: this is how these researchers see the future of meat

Huawei has created the most complex photographic system in the industry. The pure 80 ultra is the reflection of an unstoppable huawei

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Huawei has just presented its new pure family 80, smartphones that not only stand out for the engineering exercise that this generation has made, but because it is the main representatives of the technological point is the company in front of the rest of the world. Four models: Huawei pure 80, pure 80 pro, pure 80 pro+ and pure 80 ultra. The pure 80 ultra It is a national muscle exercise and A clear message to the rest of the world. A telephone that comes to show that Huawei, despite the limitations imposed by the United States, is in one of its best moments at the innovation level. Technical Card of Pura 80 Ultra Huawei Huawei pure 80 ultra Dimensions and weight 163 x 76.1 x 8.3 mm 233.5 g SCREEN 6.8 -inch OLED 2848 x 1276 pixels Ltpo 120 Hz, PWM 1440 Hz 300 Hz tactile sampling 3000 Nits Pico Brillo Kunlun Glass 2 PROCESSOR Without specifying (Kirin 9020) RAM 512 /1 TB STORAGE 16 GB BATTERY 5,700mah 100W by cable 80W wireless Reversible wireless 20 Rear cameras 50 MP, F/1.6-4.0, 1 inch, OIS 50 MP, F/2.4, 83mm, Zoom 3.7x Sensor Shift OIS 50 MP, F/2.4, 212mm, Zoom 9.4x Shit OIS Sensor (There is only one sensor for the two teleobjectives) 40 MP, F/2.2, 13mm, Ultra great angle Laser AF Front camera 13 MP, F2.0 Operating system Harmonyos 5.1 Connectivity Double -band wifi Bluetooth 5.2 NFC (China) USB c PRICE From 1,217 euros to change Look well this camera, because you are going to hallucinate with its operation. The summary. The Pura 80 Ultra Huawei is a muscle exhibition. Starting from what corresponds to any high range, we find a 6.8 -inch screen, an LTPO type oleed with 3,000 nits peak shine. Memory can be configured with up to 1 TB of internal storage and 16 GB of RAM, and the battery is 5,700mAh with fast charging of 100W. Slightly curved front. Huawei has not mentioned the chip, but it has not been long to know that both this model and the pro+ assemble the same Kirin 9020 that we saw in the Huawei Mate 70 Pro. It is a processor made of architecture of seven Nanometers of SMIC, the Chinese giant in semiconductors that is helping Huawei materialize his dream of achieving a device made only with national components. The groundbreaking. Reviewed the basic specs, Huawei wanted to be dominant in a section in which they have never lowered the rhythm: the camera. This telephone incorporates an inch sensor, which promises the greatest dynamic range of the industry. But here the star is not the main sensor, it is the teleobjective. With a size of 1.28 inches, the teleobjective of the pure 80 ultra is the largest in the industry. Such is its size, which Huawei has inclined its position so that the height of the camera module does not shoot. And, not happy with achieving this technical implementation, they have released something unique in mobile photography: get two teleobjectives with a single sensor. Two distances, a sensor. This 50 megapixel sensor allows 3.7 and 9.7 increases optical zoom. And no, it is not thanks to the digital zoom. The company has patented a simply spectacular system. What you see in the upper image is the sensor (the inclined, pink) to which light reflected through a prism is reaching. That prism moves through the module mechanically (using a gear system that literally displace it by the surface). According to the position of the prism and the mirror to which the light will reflect, the phone will shoot with a teleobjective or other. They are also the first teleobgers stabilized by SHIFT sensor (sensor stabilization), instead of OIS. A technology historically reserved for the main sensor, which has a traditional optical stabilizer. The results that Huawei has shown are impressive, especially in low light. Zoom 3.7x. This is, by far, the most advanced teleobjective system in the world. A solution to the problem of modular size and a photographic muscle exhibition as we had not seen to date. Let’s talk about the. Chatgpt and Google surprised the world with their ways with real -time processing and video of everything that saw the camera of our mobile. A function as powerful as terrifying that brings us closer to a future similar to that of ‘Her’. Huawei’s AI can already see by the user and interact in real time with its context. Huawei, with the help of Deepseek And Pangu has achieved an identical result. The pure 80 ultra, through its Xiaoyi voice assistant, can analyze in real time everything we show with the camera. It is an exclusive function of Harmonyos and Hongmeng AI, and another sample of where China is now in the AI ​​race. Huawei literally calls it like this: anti-mirones protection. There are curious functions also based on AI. If the device detects that there is someone looking at our screen, the system will let us know so we can realize. With the launch of the pure huawei, Huawei announced collaboration with Depseek to improve its AI. They have not taken to show with this pure 80 ultra of what they are capable in this first stage. National hardware? After launch From Huawei Matebook Fold, they jumped weeks later relative leaks of the milestone that Huawei is achieving with his own hardware. A good part of the chips of this PC were made with Huawei. It is soon to know the interior of the pure huawei 80 ultra, but the key that surrounds this device is what is capable of making Huawei in the highest range of mobile phones. All probability, there will be surprises in your disassembly. Doubts mainly fall on Ryyb camera sensors, since It is rumored that the company has almost lists its approaches. The price. The Pura 80 Ultra Huawei will be sold in China from 9,999 yuan, 1,217 euros to change. It accumulates in its launch more than 200,000 reservations and … Read more

The game I have the most I have this year is an official adaptation of ‘Terminator 2’ and it is pure mega drive aesthetic

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‘Terminator 2’, La Legendary 1992 James Cameron movie that put the concept of the concept of Blockbuster and then nascent digital effects, had its corresponding adaptations to video games. Among them, a gun arcade that caused a furor in its day in the recreational rooms, an action and adventure title for almost all the microordination of the time, and adaptations of very varied fur for the entire Park Consolero of the moment, of 8 and 16 bits and even Game Boy. But none looked like the newly announced ‘Terminator 2: No Fate’. It is a game announced by surprise and that has all the aesthetics and atmosphere of the 16 -bit mega drive and super nintendo -type platform platform games. Pixelated but colorful graphics, limited but careful animations and digitalized replicas of the film’s actors and robots for the cutscenes. A true visual show that replicates several scenes of the film, from the flight of the Sarah Connor prison to persecution with the T-800 on the back of the motorcycle with John Connor, going through the initial visit of Schwarzenegger to the biker bar looking for something to put on top. Not only that, but ‘Terminator 2: No Fate’ Add levels and expand the narrative of the film with scenes from its harvest set, above all, in the future. There, a John Connor already faces machines at 2D massacre levels that in some graphic virguería have reminded us of the final bosses of classics such as ‘against’. In the game you can control, according to the phase, Sarah Connor, John Connor or T-800, although no details have been given about the possible mechanics that differentiate them beyond the obvious. Experience in Terminators The game is signed by Bitmap Bureauwhich intend to edit versions for PlayStation, Xbox and Nintendo Switch on September 5, 2025. The study is an expert in retro -flavor titles, as they have shown in the lateral action game ’88 Heroes’, in the Brawler ‘Final Vendetta’, which recovers the aesthetics and mechanics of ‘Final Fight’, and in the Shooter sand Cenital and cooperative ‘Xeno Crisis’. Three credentials that guarantee that they will do an excellent job with ‘Terminator 2: No Fate’. To this is added that the game is edited by Reef Entertainment, Publisher that has already entered the ‘Terminator’ franchise twicewith two games developed by Teyon and excellent results. ‘Terminator: Resistance’ and its DLC ‘Annihilation Line’ are fps that send us to the future, to the struggle of humanity against machines. There we will have to face many of the robots that we have seen in the movies. On the other hand, in a special way, games even allow the skin of an T-800 to annihilate humans. Another exception curriculum that only adds points to this stimulant ‘Terminator 2: No Fate’ Header | Bitmap Bureau In Xataka | James Cameron’s key to get with ‘Terminator 2’ and ‘Aliens’ two of the best sequelae in history

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