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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

Catalonia wants to triple the number of electric vehicles. Has put 1.4 billion euros on the table to get it

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Salvador Illa, president of the Generalitat, I announced this week The mobilization of more than 1.4 billion euros until 2030 for its impulse plan of the electric vehicle. Catalonia wants to lead The decarbonization objectives imposed by Europeand has several proposals on the table to achieve it. “We have the will, we have talent, we have companies involved and we have a leadership position in the sustainable and automotive mobility sector. Now it’s time to make decisions and adapt with a large degree of self -examination to take advantage of opportunities and capture future investments in clean technologies and intelligent mobility. “He has declared. The plan is cemented on five key axes, which reflect the measures and actions that will be promoted from the Generalitat. Load infrastructure display. The first step is to create a recharge network that can support the ambitious plans of the Generalitat. You want to get promoting an electric recharge network “well sized and capillary, as well as stimulating the demand for load points (with financial incentives to companies, institutions and communities of owners). There are no specific data on how many load points will be necessary for such a high objective, but the Plan details that the availability of sufficient electrical power will be guaranteed through the modernization and expansion of the current network. Impulse for the demand for the electric vehicle. Without a doubt, the most complex objective of the plan is given as The demand for the electric vehicle. You can’t electrify a city if drivers do not want (either They cannot) Go to the electric. Catalonia wants to make the purchase of electric vehicles more affordable through aid, although it does not detail what they will be. It will try to promote the industrial transition of the combustion motorcycle, as well as to increase the use of the electric vehicle in business fleets. To do this, a credit line with “advantageous conditions” for SMEs will be developed. The Generalitat’s own fleet will be electrified, and the price of electrified vehicles will be bonus. Improvement of the perception of the electric vehicle. A somewhat more ambiguous plan is to improve the current perception of this type of vehicles. Catalonia will invest in campaigns to “sensitize citizens”, as well as the business sector. Lead the industry. It is proposed to enhance local production and innovation in batteries, electronic components and smart mobility solutions. The focus on attracting foreign investment, promoting pilot tests of new technologies and talent promotion and promotion. Enhanced with the private. The plan contemplates “effective” governance by coordinating with the private sector. The electric vehicle table will be created, composed of public administrations, private agents of the industrial and energy sector, and mobility companies (recharge points installers, software development, etc.) It is also intended to digitize the procedures to the maximum and reduce the administrative burden to facilitate and decentralize competences. A great ambition, difficult execution. The Catalan government has put an ambitious initiative on the table, which intends to triple the penetration rhythm of the electric vehicle, fold the deployment of load points and favor 150,000 enrollments of electrified vehicles. Figures to be reached on a horizon of less than five years, Image | Toyota In Xataka | Volkswagen Before the unavoidable reality: there is little demand for electric car, there is little demand for Volkswagen FacebookTwitterFlipboardE-mail Topics

Sending the ID to a stranger is dangerous. This new app has a free solution: put water brand

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The DNI is a document as important as dangerous is to share it with third parties without taking concerns. Surely we have all ever faced someone, whether a person or establishment, who asks us for a copy of the ID to, for example, complete a reservation or a purchase. It is an extended practicebut not sure. The consequences can be disastrous, so it is recommended edit the document Before sending it. There are several optionsbut This tool It promises more security and put it more difficult for the IAS for the modest price of zero euros. The most interesting thing is that, although it works through the browser, there is no cloud in between. Everything works at home. His name: Saferlayer. “Hey, the copy of the ID …”. A scammer can use our ID to commit crimes (such as impersonation of identity), access to an betting house or ask for a loan in our name. Nothing good, of course. Therefore, it is important that if we are forced to share a photocopy of the DNI we do it prior edition. This type of DNI -related scams They are relatively known on the purchase and rental platforms. The lack of supply, the enormous demand and despair to find a floor can make, with the rush, let’s forget to take the necessary precautions and we will find two negative things: that the announced floor did not exist and that a total unknown has Our ID. The general recommendation is never to send a copy of the DNI or passport without editing What is the problem? Not everyone knows, wants or can use dedicated tools like Photoshop. Pixelar an image or a piece of an image It is very simple (and not as sure as it seems). Also add text or a watermark, but you have to know. Not only that, but these water marks can be edited and removed afterwards and leave the image as if nothing had happened. The solution: a dedicated tool. Carlos Sánchez, Head of Product in Real Madrid, and his “Compi de Side Projects“Guido Fioravantti, got to work after Carlos had to send a copy of his email documentation. In telephone conversation with Xataka, Carlos Sánchez explains that” you take any traditional water brand and pass it through some tools for some tools Specialized artificial intelligence, you’ll see that they take it off in seconds. What we wanted was to avoid that. “ After several tests and iterations, they found a “water mark that covers the entire document, which deceives the AI; makes it difficult to differentiate the water mark from the background image, so when you try to remove it, load it is loaded part of the document and is proof that it has been manipulated in some way. “ Copy of the original ID (above) and edited with Saferlayer (below) | Image: Saferlayer The water brand. It consists of a wave pattern with a degraded one that goes from fuchsia to green. “This has been a very proof and error process,” explains Carlos. “In that process we detected that this undemed undulating pattern, that flag effect waving, made it difficult for the AI. These color changes throughout the pattern also complicate it. In the end, we had to find the balance between whatever Very difficult to remove for AI, but also that it was readable, “he says. For Carlos, it was important that it was “evident to the person generated by the document and for whom he receives that there is a watermark that can be read, especially so that the person who receives it does not have incentives to use it for purposes Fraudulent “. This is the document edited with Saferlayer when we pass it through one of the many existing tools to eliminate the water mark | Image: Saferlayer, Xataka Everything at home. One of Saferlayer’s keys is that It works at homenothing leaves the browser. The image we are going to edit does not climb any server. This can be easily verified with the inspector of the browser itself or, simply, adding the Webapp to the home screen and putting the mobile in plane mode. We will verify that it continues to work without problem. When you upload an image, we simply have to specify the use that the copy has, for example, “Valid copy only to confirm the ABCDE hotel reservation.” Once this is done, the tool is responsible for adding the watermark. It is practically instantaneous. The tool works with all types of documents in image format (JPEG and PNG), but not with PDFs. Water brand detail | Image: Xataka A success. The tool was launched on Sunday afternoon and spread mainly Through x. It soon went viral and that can be seen in the figures. As Sánchez confirms us, “right now we are doing a water mark every nine seconds.” To the elderly, the idea of ​​the creators, their vision, is to develop a tool that allows the “total traceability of the document. That allows the individual to protect their document add a water mark, but we also have the idea of ​​covering the other part , to the company that receives the document and wants to make sure whether it is legitimate or not. ” In Carlos’s words, “we would like to evolve this to verify that the documents that have Saferlayer water mark have been manipulated in some way, or if it is the water mark as it has been generated by the tool.” “Right now we are doing a water mark every nine seconds” In that sense, Carlos tells us that a hotel in the center of Madrid has contacted them because he was “very interested in exploring tools that facilitate these processes (in reference to the new lodging record) since it generates a brutal administrative burden and makes Check-in the process more uncomfortable for customers. “According to Carlos, the hotel wanted to talk to them to see if Saferlayer could” potentially help them. “ … Read more

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