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France receives more tourists than anyone. Now he has had an idea to limit it: put the very expensive flights

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Although there is already who says that Spain will end up snatching the crown, France is today the undisputed queen of world tourism. No other nation moves more travelers. Only last year it was expected to arrive in the country some 89.4 million of international tourists, a good handful more than Spain, the US or China. From now on, travelers who must take off from France to move around the country or return to their homes will have to scratch some more pocket. The reason: shortly It will go up he “Solidarity Tax” That applies to your flights. Of course, the decision It has generated a stir. What happened? That in a matter of a few weeks (March 1) France will update its Solidarity tax On the plane tickets, better known as TSBA or ‘Chirac tax’ in a wink to the former president who ruled the Republic when it was approved. His climb is not really a surprise. It was expected in The French budget of 2025, approved in February after a complex process that He took ahead to Prime Minister Michel Barnier; But its application will not be really effective until next month. What exactly is the TSBA? An international tax that taxes the price of plane tickets. Their amount is set by authorities. Then it is up to the airlines to decide whether they assume it or transfer it to a greater or lesser extent to the tickets that charge their passengers. As your own name (TSBA) details, the objective is finance International aid programs. In fact, the French government defends its equitable and ecological value. When at the beginning of the year, during An interview with Le Parisienthe Public Accounts Minister Amélie de Montchalin was asked what he thought of the increase in the tax, Your answer It could not be clearer: “I am in favor. It is a measure of fiscal and ecological justice. The richest 20% of the population is responsible for more than half of the air trip spending.” How much and where will it go up? To clear doubts, the French administration published a few weeks ago A brief ad with the main novelties that affect the tax. It speaks of three categories: “destinations in France and Europe”, “intermediate destinations” and “distant destinations”, which would be those in which the plane travels more than more than 5,500 kilometers. Then details the amount that the rate will have in each case, although the amount varies depending on another parameter: the category. The same is not charged to a customer who travels with a tourist ticket than to another class Business or that flies in a private jet. And how are they then? The result is that the rate for flights in economic and short -distance class, within France or Europe and with departure from France, will cost 2.63 to 7.4 euros. In intermediate journeys it will rise to 15 euros and in the case of distant destinations the tax will be located in 40. The routes to Corsica and overseas territories are left out. In class Business The rate will cost 30, 80 or 120 eurosdepending on the duration of the flight, and in the case of the Jets the TSBA will involve from March between 210 and 2,100 euros, the maximum that would pay a user of a private plane for a trip of more than 5,500 km. The Government recalls in any case that the impact of new rates on airline tickets will depend on whether they decide or not to “absorb them.” What do airlines say? They have not taken to show their discomfort. At least part of them. Air France considers that the climb, more than double, is “irresponsible” and is equivalent to demanding “a tax to access France.” In his specific case he estimates that he will cost him about 100 million euros at a particularly delicate time after the pandemic years. “France is the country of Europe where air transport is more taxed with taxes. In the last 20 years we have lost between 1 and 2% of the market every year in favor of foreign airlines. There is a risk of transferring benefits to other countries,” ditch. The update of the TSBA arrives in fact after the country has made clear Your desire to encourage taxes, the use of less polluting alternatives to the plane in short journeys. Can you take its toll? The reaction has not been good in Ryanar. Its executive director, Michael O’Leary, already He has accused To France to swim to “countercurrent” and warns: “Europe will not be more efficient or competitive excessively taxing air rates.” “France is already a country with high taxes and if they increase more likely we will reduce our capacity,” says the manager of the Low Cost. From the company go further and point out the risk that flights end up being only available to “the rich”, affecting the country’s finances at a time that stands out precisely by the Tourism boom international. Images | Eric Salard (Flickr) 1 and 2 and Service-Public.fr In Xataka | Private Jets flights are a great source of pollution. And France wants to limit them

How to put the new Google timer widget on your Android mobile

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Let’s explain How to put the new timer widget of Google for Android. This is a new application function Clockand that has reached Pixel mobiles. However, you will also be able to download it and use it on any Android mobile. In this article we will tell you everything you need to know to use it on your mobile. First indicating briefly how to get it, and then guided by the steps to add it to one of the desks of your Android, and that you always have it by hand to create a countdown. Put the Widget of the timer on Android If you have a pixel mobilethe first thing you have to do is find the new Android 15 update. System. Inside, click on Software updates and make sure you have the last installed. If you have any other Android mobileyou will need to manually install a 7.12 or posterior version of the app Clock. You can do it by downloading and installing the APK file from your profile in APK Mirror. Inside be careful with the buttons of Discharge They are advertising, you have to click on the link in the section Download Google Clock. Once you have the clock app installed, you have to Keep your finger clip on the wallpaper of one of your Android desks. A menu will appear whose design depends on the manufacturer, where you have to click on the option Widgets That will appear inside. You will go to a screen where you can navigate the list of apps that have available widgets. In it, display the widgets of Clockand once do hold the Timer activator. That will make you return to the desk holding the widget, and you can place it in the part you want from the screen. Now, the only thing you have left to do is choose the form of shape or relocate it wherever you want and voila. The widget will have three options to just have to press and put a countdown, but there are also A + button to customize time with whom you want to use this timer. In Xataka Basics | Android anti -theft protection: What is it, what functions it has and how to activate it on your mobile

Musk is trying to block Openai’s transition to “for-profit.” A judge just put it very difficult

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Sam Altman wants to make Openai a company with profit (“for-profit”), but the process was notably complicated when Musk offered to buy it for 97.4 billion dollars. The tycoon did not stop there and He also tried to sue A Openai to try to block that transition to For-Profit, but just lost that legal battle. What happened. A federal judge in California has blocked Musk’s legal effort to stop Openai’s transformation to an entity of profit. As indicated In BloombergJudge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers determined that the lawsuit “have not satisfied the probative charge” that would have needed for that demand to prosper. A case that was entangled. In March 2024 Musk He sued Openai for violating their contracts and fiduciary duties. The case He retired of the State Court and was activated in the Federal Court, and that was when Musk expanded the demand indicating that Microsoft and Openai had violated antitrust laws. Openai defended himself from these allegations publishing internal messages of the billionaire, and now the federal judge has made it clear that the evidence and arguments presented by Musk are not enough to avoid that transition sought by Altman. But not everything is lost. The demand contained other Musk requests with respect to OpenAI, although it is not detailed which. Even so, the judge has indicated that these other components of the lawsuit may remain active in the legal process. Sam Altman has it easier now. The Openai Directorate Council declared a few weeks ago that “the hundreds of billions of dollars that large companies are now investing in the development of AI show what is really needed so that Openai continues to pursue the mission.” With the Form-Profit structure, the company can avoid the limitations of investments in your company. Thus, Openai will be able to eliminate that benefit to investors, which can attract even more money for the company. Quick judgment. Rogers added in his sentence that Musk’s complaints are resolved as soon as possible “the public interest in play and potential damage if a transition contrary to the law occurs.” Thus, the judge indicated that he will hold an accelerated trial focusing on the main demand that the Openai conversion plan is illegal and “potentially the interrelated demands based on contracts”. The war between Musk and Altman continues. Openai’s lawyers stood out as Musk’s demand is basically a demand for the competition with the company. “Elon’s own emails,” they explained, “they show that they wanted to merge an openai with profit with Tesla. That would have been great for their personal benefit, but not for our mission or the interests of the US.” Image | Ted | Techcrunch In Xataka | Elon Musk’s continued criticism A OpenAi have a simple explanation: it went too soon

Elon Musk put an emoji in X and 7,000 million vanished

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The Mexican millionaire Carlos Slim Helú is the main shareholder of the América Móvil communications company. The telecommunications operator was looking for Improve mobile coverage of his network in those areas of Latin America that did not reach his current infrastructure, so he thought about building a strategic alliance with Elon Musk Starlink for its satellite connection service. All negotiation between America Mobile and Starlink was on wheelsuntil Elon Musk hinted from his X account that Carlos Slim had links with organized crime and drug trafficking. The message about Slim cost 7,000 million to Musk. Friends are not insult. Mexican businessman Carlos Slim Helú has decided to end his negotiation with Starlink, in which he planned to invest a whopping 7,000 million dollars. This decision was made after Elon Musk gave pábulo from his profile of X to publications that linked the Mexican millionaire with the drug trafficking and organized crime business. Elon Musk republishedgiving veracity to the content about Carlos Slim, the message of a user in which it was stated: “It is known that (Carlos Slim) has important links with drug cartels in Mexico. You cannot be a billionaire in Mexico without being part of the network that is controlled and protected.” After these links, Carlos Slim immediately broke the negotiations with Starlink. Musk loses 7,000 million, Slim invests 22,000 million. Instead of continuing depending on Starlink technology, America Mobile has chosen not to depend on US technology has chosen to invest in its own telecommunications infrastructure. With the change, the Slim operator has already announced that it will triple the initial figure planned for the alliance with Starlink, investing about 22,000 million dollars, in the next three years. “It is better to put our towers, plant and optical fiber that links them,” said Slim after breaking the negotiations with Musk. According to The published by ExpansionDaniel Hajj, CEO of America Mobile, confirmed in the presentation of results of the fourth quarter of 2024 that the company was not in negotiations with Starlink. “We are still reviewing if that service makes sense to us. But, for now, we have no ongoing negotiation with satellite companies,” said Hajj. Geopolitical strategy. He political change in the US and the constants tariff threats Trump to Mexico made the Mexican millionaire rethink the convenience of allying with an American company for a matter as delicate as the network infrastructure of its operator, no matter how much the president Claudia Sheinbaum promotes it. As they point from the Mexico Daily Postit is very likely that this investment will now go to companies from China and Europe. The rumors pointed to one of the candidates to improve that network infrastructure would be the division of Telefónica in Argentina, Although America Mobile has not confirmed negotiations between both companies. “We are always open (…) to the synergies that make sense to us, so we are open to review that, but we have not talked to them and we have nothing at this time,” clarifiedHajj. In Xataka | 36 hours a week, three days, 12 hours a day: Carlos Slim’s extravagant proposal to reduce the day Image | Dvids (Justin Pacheco), Flickr (Presidency of the Mexican Republic)

A startup wants to build the “Tesla de los Barco”. His revolutionary idea is to put candles

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Transport electrification and the search for alternatives to traditional combustion are priorities for many countries. While Europe and China They bet on him electric car and aviation explores more sustainable fuelsmaritime transport of merchandise continues to depend almost completely on diesel. Although the most Of world trade, it is rarely mentioned in the conversation about sustainability. However, a company is already working on changing this And that solution is an millenary technology: candles. Pollution. To meet the tremendous commercial volume we need at the moment, we use huge boring ships. And, although the focus is put on other forms of transport, the maritime is a significant source of pollution. HE esteem that the sector produces 3% of global CO₂ emissions and other particles that contribute to global warming. Specifically, it is responsible for 15% of nitrogen oxides emissions -Nox- and 13% of sulfur oxides -sox- that humanity produces. He guilty It is the fuel used, with high amounts of sulfur and heavy metals, but the regulations allow ships contaminate up to 500 times more than land vehicles. At full sail. Therefore, measures are being implemented to mitigate the polluting impact Of the great ships such as speed reduction, more respectful fuels either systems carbon capture within the ships themselves. But there are also those who are exploring other ways. Show this is the Yara Birkeland boat That not only works thanks to a cover full of solar panels, but does it autonomously. Another example is a design of the British company Windship Technology that bets on technology thousands of years ago: candle. Or a kind of candle. The ‘Tesla de los Mares’. Presented A few years ago, the True Zero Issation is a ship or propulsion project that allows the CO2, NOX and SOX to eliminate, as well as any other polluting particle, of the navigation equation. The idea of ​​the company is for the ship to work with a diesel-electric energy system and, to ensure that there are no emissions, carbon captors would be installed. In addition, the helmet would be optimized to offer the lowest possible resistance to water and would have software that draws the best possible route taking into account variables such as weather forecast, distance, currents and the state of the sea. But it is clear that what attracts the most attention is the candle system. 21st century candles. Unlike traditional candles, which generate wind resistance to propel the ship in the opposite direction to that current, the Windship design consists of several masts with three wings that what they are looking for is to attract the wind to, next to the electric motor, optimize the movement of the ship. Each of these platforms can be up to 48 meters high, something that adjusts depending on the size of the ship and is mobile, oriented to take advantage of the currents. Challenges. At the moment, there is no ship designed with this base system, and it is not something that seems simple. The reason is that the boring ships have their load surface, precisely on the deck. Except for Roro shipsdesigned as large covered garages, the containers transport their load on the deck, which raises a challenge: the candles would occupy valuable space and could interfere with the port operations. From Windship already comments that the structure of the mast can be folded to facilitate maneuver and that its useful life is greater than 25 years, but it is clear that it is an added challenge for ship designers. For now, who has interested For technology is DNV, an insurance organization in segments such as oil, energy or maritime industry. Superyates. Although these large load ships are heavyweights in naval pollution, where a system like the one that Windship poses in luxury yachts can have more future. David Barrow is the Windship technology director and Comment that, although the strictest regulations have not yet affected the superyates, with the environmental objectives marked By 2050, it is possible that these vessels are also wrapped in the restrictions. Being much lighter than the large charges, a yacht of about 70 meters with three masts of 35 meters each could reach the same speed that current engines provide. That, of course, would lead a redesign in the construction plans so that they are more “dynamic and with better stability. Traditional sailboats. The Windship solution is evident that it is avant -garde, but there is another company that literally bets on candles. By sailboats to transport merchandise, specifically. It’s about Towta French company that completed a pilot trip with its ship a few months ago Anemosa sailboat with carbon fiber masts, traditional candles that are deployed by remote control and two diesel-electric motors. Anemos is the first of a projected fleet of eight vessels that, according to Towt’s calculations, would transport 200,000 tons of merchandise every year, saving with its impulse to candles about 40,000 tons in CO₂ emissions. The ‘anemos’ In the end, to candles or not, it is evident that manufacturers should look for alternatives to current fuels if they want to adjust to restrictions based on achieving the decarbonization objectives. And it would be curious to see non -competitive ships driven thanks to new generation candles. Images | Towt, Windship In Xataka | Is it feasible to protect us from climate change with a giant umbrella? Some researchers believe yes

Skype had everything to master the video calls. Now Microsoft has just put a death date

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It has been Xda Developers who advanced the news that Microsoft has just confirmed publicly: Skype is going to be closed forever. It will happen in May, when they put the final brush to a story that could be very different and that will now be an inherited inherited by Teams, the company’s right eye for communications. It seemed a long time since Skype’s end was imminent. It was released in 2003 and Bought by Microsoft in 2011 for 8,500 million dollarsfigure that then seemed astronomical. Skype was a before and after. He turned the calls and long -distance video calls into something accessible to anyone with the Internet. It became the metonymy of video calls (“Do we make a skype?”), Something that very few products achieve. But Skype’s story is rather that of a wasted opportunity. He had everything to become a dominant platform: He arrived very soon to the market. He had a great adoption. He had a recognizable brand worldwide. And I had behind Microsoft’s resources. However, bad decisions and a lack of constant innovation allowed rivals such as Facetime, Zoom, Google Meet, Discord or WhatsApp a toast. Seen in retrospect, Skype’s decline was not sudden, but gradual. In 2015 It was integrated in Windows 10but the experience was unnatural. For a long time, Microsoft maintained a strange duality between Skype and Skype for Business. The latter was replaced by Teams in 2019. Meanwhile, others advanced quickly. Zoom catapulted during the confinements of 2020 thanks to the juncture, but also thanks to simplify: he eliminated records of records and downloads. Facetime was completely integrated into the Apple ecosystem. And WhatsApp took advantage of its omnipresence and popularity to offer them as one more service. And meanwhile, Skype was stagnant in a cycle of redesign who never solved his main problems (Sometimes they magnified them): An inconsistent interface, performance problems and a confused user experience. Microsoft is not only killing Skype, it is redirecting its users towards Teamsincreasingly popular. Skype users can use their credentials to access Teams and there they will see their contacts and conversations. During the transition period, users of both platforms can communicate with each other. Then there will only be space for Teams. A bittersweet end. A closure that seems almost merciful. Skype lived in his own confusing identity. It remained as that application that we had installed “just in case” and that we do not remember the last time we used it despite the fact that at the time it played a fundamental role. Being able to see and talk to other people in other countries was revolutionary in the 2000s, Skype leaves A great cultural impact that is now transformed into archeology. As a final gift, a lesson leaves us: it does not matter if a platform is very established, it can become irrelevant if it does not evolve to the compass of the needs of its users. End of an era. Outstanding image | Xataka with Grok 3 In Xataka | Microsoft is very important that the agents of AI are the great ball of the year. And is being reorganized to achieve it

You have to put very large quotes on the "reasoning" of the AI: Welcome to the "irregular intelligence"

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The second definition of reasoning according to The Spanish Language Dictionary is to “order and relate ideas to reach a conclusion.” That is just what do models of AI such as O3-mini, Openai or Deepseek R1. They collect information, order it and build an answer in which they reach a conclusion. Are these models models that “Reason” really? It is an inevitable question with a difficult answer. From that term began to be used, in Xataka We often came to quote itbecause comparing the theoretician “reasoning” of these machines with human reasoning is delicate. And it’s how they indicate In Voxscientists are still trying to understand how reasoning in the human brain works. There are in fact various types of reasoning such as the deductive (from a premise we reach a conclusion) or the inductive (we perform a wide generalization from a series of observations). {“Videid”: “X95L504”, “Autoplay”: False, “Title”: “Counting with OpenAi O1”, “Tag”: “OpenAi”, “Duration”: “88”} Divide a problem into parts to solve it It is also reasoning about him. It is in fact the idea after which is the so-called “chain of thought” (“Chain-of-Thought”) of which OpenAI I already talked in September 2024when o1 was launched. It is a process that mimics to some extent to human reasoning in such problems, but is the machine reason as people do? For some experts one of the things that distinguish us (for the moment) of the machines in this type of tasks is that we can discover “a rule or pattern from limited data or experience and to apply this rule or pattern to new and unknown situations “ This was stated by Melanie Mitchell – of the Santa Fe Institute – and his colleagues In a study about the “reasoning” capabilities of AI models in November 2023. At that time there was still almost a year for O1 and other rival “reasoning” models, but the data remains valid, because the models of AI follow needing to be training with vast amounts of information. In Xataka O3 Rate as high as human programmers in a reasoning and abstraction. It is just what OpenAi needs But Mitchell analyzed The spectacular O3 performance in ARC tests a year later, and was surprised at how well he had behaved. He also caught the large amount of computer resources that required that “reasoning” capacity, and wondered if the machines were really using the type of abstraction that were really needed for those tests. There are studies that precisely question that AI is “reasoning.” October 1, 2024 signed by four researchers from the Institute of Technology of Israel and the Northeastern University wondered if the LLMS (Large Language Models, great language models) Solve these reasoning tasks learning robust and generalizable algorithms, or do so memorizing the data with which they have been trained. Do they use heuristics and experience, or “think”? The conclusion reached after their evidence is that there is apparently a mixture of both: they implement a set of heuristics – a combination of memorized rules – to carry out their arithmetic “reasoning”. They do not “reason”, or at least they don’t do it as human beings do. Above all, experts criticize, they apply heuristics and a series of memorized data to solve the problem. Their ability to extrapolar them and adapt to new problems is limited. They are applied students, but they are not “great.” The ARC-AGI test tries to raise evidence that for human beings are relatively simple, but with which the models of AI have a really bad time. For other experts, such as Shannon Vallor, from the University of Edinburgh, what AI does is once again, imitate human behavior. They do traditional chatbots such as Chatgpt when generating text, and also do these “reasoning” models by imitating RL human reasoning process, decomposing the problem and trying to solve it by stages. Some researchers They speak Of an irregular intelligence, because as Andrej Karpathy explained – Exoes ARC tests that for human beings are very simple. Until they stop getting stuck, of course. That is what all the companies of AI pursue with increasingly advanced and versatile models. Less irregular. And when they arrive (if they arrive) they may not have too much importance if they “reason” or not. And either Let’s quote That word. Image | Todd Martin In Xataka | Copilot, Chatgpt and GPT-4 have changed the world of programming forever. This is thought of programmers (Function () {Window._js_modules = Window._js_modules || {}; var headelement = document.getelegsbytagname (‘head’) (0); if (_js_modules.instagram) {var instagramscript = Document.Createlement (‘script’); }}) (); – The news You have to put very large quotes on the “reasoning” of AI: welcome to the “irregular intelligence” It was originally posted in Xataka by Javier Pastor .

The Coffee World Cup exists and Spain has put their hopes in a barista in Vigo: Marcos González

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Making coffee is simple, but prepare a good coffee It is something that has crumb. When you start investigating the peculiarities of each preparation, coffee varieties and instruments for get all the juice to the grainsyou discover that it is an art. There are those who take this to the highest level, so much that there is even a coffee World Cup. Or Baristas, rather. This is the World Coffee Challenge, and this year the Vigo Marcos González will represent Spain in this curious competition. The Coffee World Cup. If there is an Excel World Cupit is logical that there is such a competition around One of the most consumed drink on the planetafter the water, of course. In fact, there is not only a competition, since the World Coffee Challenge is an umbrella that embraces various disciplines. One of them is the World Barista Championship in which, obviously, the best baristas in the world break up to see who prepares the best experience. Because here not only does the technique matter, but to tell a story to the jury. It seems boring from the outside, but it is quite interesting to see the skills of the competitors. One of them is someone who has worked a career as a coffee disseminator, James Hoffmanwho rose with the trophy in 2007 and what he has done follies how to prepare a Donut coffee. Coffee fest. As in all competitions, there are a series of previous rounds, and to find the Spanish representative, a few days ago the Coffee fest. More than a simple competition, it is a coffee celebration with the best coffee with milk preparation or the best filtered coffee, others that test their skills with the Latte arttasting tournaments and other activities. James Hoffman was in this year’s edition, as well as other disseminators and youtubers such as Hedrick Lance. And, regardless of being a meeting point in which coffee lovers share knowledge and experiences, it was the framework of the national competition of Baristas. Vigo quality. 18 professionals from all over the country gathered to prove their skills, and the best was the Vigo Marcos González. It was not the first time that he raised with victory, since in 2018 and 2019 he was also considered the best barista in Spain. His proposal this year was an experience that ‘told’ crucial moments of his career, as they detail Our companions from direct to the palate: Origin: Inspired by its connection with the Esmeralda farm in Panama, this concoction reflects its first experiences with Coffee Geisha, a variety appreciated for its unique flavor profile. Freedom: This drink embodies Marcos’s relationship with his team and innovative spirit, highlighting the importance of collaboration and creativity in the world of coffee. Happiness: A fusion that joins flavors and techniques of Colombia, Panama and Asturias, regions that have significantly marked the personal and professional life of the barista. His three elaborations, in order, were an express with The exclusive Geisha Caféa coffee with milk and a cocktail. In Faro de Vigo, the barista confessed That such a championship requires many hours of training. Also imagination to link coffee with the narrative and conquer the jury. And that your pulse does not shake because we all know that any calculation error can be a disaster when it comes to Prepare the perfect coffee. Objective: Milan. It will be from October 17 to 21 when Milan will host the World Coffee Championship of this 2025 and the opportunity that Marcos will have to be duel against another 69 of the best baristas in the world. In FDV, he said that some of them are their idols, so it will not be easy, but he hopes that this time the defeated after staying in 2019 one step away from the semis. The judges will evaluate factors such as the taste, presentation, balance and technique of the barista, as well as that narrative that we comment that links the elaborations. We will have to be attentive. Images | WCC In Xataka | Toast coffee at home with the air fryer: the perfect example that experiments are done with soda

The first great fiasco in the AI ​​era is the AI ​​Pin of Humane. HP has put the last nail in its coffin

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He Ai pin Humane was born as the first product of a company founded by former Apple employees, in order to make the smartphone concept obsolete. A 100% device focused on AI functions, with camera, laser projection to read Qualcomm text and processor. In Xataka we were able to throw the glove and, from the first minute, We were clear that I was not going to succeed. Behind him Commercial failure That had the product, the last nail in the coffin has put it HP. The company has bought a good part of Humane And the first decision after sale has been to stop selling and supporting the AI ​​Pin. A product that was just a few months in the market. The purchase. Humane will sell most of your company to HP for 116 million dollars. Both companies have closed an agreement through which HP is made the intellectual property of more than 300 patents of Humane, including its AI platform Cosmosthe AI ​​Pin operating system. What HP is looking for. According to Tuan Tran statements, HP Technology and Innovation President, “this investment will quickly accelerate our ability to develop a new generation of devices that organize without problems the requests for both the local and cloud levels.” In other words, HP wants to accelerate the implementation of AI in its products. A meaningful movement being the PCs with ia a new claim And having told Xataka the Ketan Patel himself, head of the HP PCs and Portable Division, who see the AI ​​as a crucial component for the future of the PC. The immediate consequence. Goodbye to AI Pin, without half inks. Humane has announced that the devices will stop connecting to their servers from next February 28. “We write to inform you that, with immediate effect, we will end the AI ​​Pin consumer service because our commercial priorities have changed.” The company has not shaken the pulse to justify it due to “commercial priorities”, and explained what will happen to the devices already sold. First, AI Pin stops selling immediately. After February 28, he will stop connecting to Humane servers, so he cannot access images, videos or notes taken with him. Similarly, from this day, all the data will be removed permanently. In summary, AI PIN will become a pisapapeles of 700 dollars in which you can only access offline functions such as … look at the battery level. The first great fiasco of the AI ​​era. That a product is 100% based on AI has a potential problem. If the company decides to forget it months later, you will have a Pisapapeles without any function. In the case of Humane have been changes in commercial priorities, but the list of possible reasons (commercial failures, business sale, technical problems, regulations, bankruptcy, etc.) that can be used in the future is unabarcable. The Humane case is a hard blow to the “AI Products” sector, throwing even more doubts about the reasonable (or not) to buy a device that depends 100% on a server. Image | Humane In Xataka | Almost no mobile manufacturer is thinking about his own AI for his devices. It has enough logic

This is how Ech works, the Technological Shield of Cloudflare that has put the operators between the sword and the wall

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The LaLiga fight against illegal soccer broadcasts It has encountered an unexpected obstacle: Ech (Encrypted Client Hello), an encryption protocol that stars in the great conflict and the collateral damage of this battle, which splashes thousands of companies. Turning point. It all started when Cloudflare implemented in October 2023 (Encrypted Client Hello), an extension of TLS that prevents operators from identifying which specific domain is requesting the user. This protocol makes it technically impossible for operators to see which specific domain requests a user. The contrast. ECH works as an additional encryption layer that completely hides the final destination of a connection: When a user tries to access a website, his browser initiates an encrypted “negotiation” (Handshake TLS) With the server. Before ECH, although this connection was encrypted, the name of the domain was traveling “in clear” so that the intermediate servers could enrut the traffic. With ECH, the name of the domain is also encrypted, making it impossible for the operators to know which concrete website the user is accessing. The system is even more complicated because Cloudflare uses shared IPS: The same IP address can house hundreds or thousands of different websites. Without ECH, the operators could see what domain each user requested and block selectively. With ATU activated, they only see an encrypted IP that could be serving both legal and illegal content. This leaves two options to the operators: block all the IP (affecting hundreds or thousands of sites) or not blocking anything. When they choose the first thing the Blocked legitimate websites. To avoid blockages, which also translate into a reputational crisis, some operators are resorting to alternative techniques such as: Traffic patterns analysis. Deep inspection of packages (DPI). BLOCK BY SNI (Indication of the server name) when ECH is not active. But these solutions are complex, expensive and not always effective. The conflict has climbed, Movistar has softened his blockages, Digi has hardened them and Vodafone says to have a more precise solution although it has not revealed details yet (since Xataka We have asked them for this without having received an answer at the time of publishing this article). They possibly use one of the last points. The next. Ech has supposed a huge change in Internet architecture. The precedent of Austria, where IPS blockades were prohibited To protect the neutrality of the network, it suggests that the current regulation model needs to adapt to this new reality. Meanwhile, the pulse between LaLiga and Cloudflare persists, and thousands of Spanish companies also remain trapped in the midst of the conflict. Outstanding image | Cloudflare In Xataka | What is cloudflare, how it works and why a fall or block makes half the Internet fail

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