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The idea of ​​the real estate employer so that the children “inherit” their parents’ mortgages

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According to the barometer of the May 2025 Sociological Research Center (CIS), the house is The greatest concern of the Spaniards. On the other hand, the National Institute of Statistics (INE) provides some response from the reason for that concern: housing is, by far, the Greater household expense In Spain. Buying a home implies, in most cases, to assume a mortgage of more than 30 years that places its headlines on the retirement threshold. Some ask to wear that threshold a little further. Given the impossibility of expanding the duration of the mortgages, if the housing rises, only the amount of the quotas could be increased by aggravating the risk of defaults. The solution that real estate promoters have put on the table in the V edition of The great real estate day: 70 -year -old mortgages instead of 30 years. Longer and longer mortgages. The price of housing, conditioned by a mismatch between supply and demand in urban areas, as well as the pressure exerted by its use as holiday renthas made the price of housing shoot. According to INE datain March 2025 the average mortgage was for an amount of 156,698 euros, while in the same month of 2024 it was 137,049 euros. To compensate for that climb, the new mortgages that have been registering do not choose to raise their fees, but have been stretching their expiration date until they are located at an average of 24.47 years in 2023, According to data of the Bank of Spain. That is, it is increasingly common to find mortgages of 30 years or more due to the impossibility of assuming a more expensive monthly fee. So how can it face a more than probable housing price escalation? According to the employer of promoters who met in the real estate forum organized by The economist: “Who says that 70 year old mortgages will be seen.” Two lives to pay the mortgage. Far from assuming the remote possibility that some change in construction costs wave Urbanizable Land Liberation It can make the price of the house be contained, the proposal of the real estate promoters puts the ball on the roof of the financial system. “This will continue until the body endures. It will continue to stress until there is no payment capacity,” declared Ignacio Moreno, CEO of Aurora Homes, in The economist. Mortgages at 70 years involves the assumption of high credit risks of the banking sector since it implies signing a 70 -year mortgage with a holder who, for obvious biological reasons, will finish paying their offspring or heirs. In addition to increasing the credit cost for customers, who would pay an overrun in interest. With the banks that do not count. Banking entities, on the other hand, are not very motivated to increase the flow of credit for the purchase of housing due to the economic uncertainty generated by the US tariff policy. The European Central Bank has applied successive Down in interest rates lowering the price of mortgages. That has generated an increase in the loans for the purchase of a home in what we have been in 2025. According to the INE datain March 2025, new 42,831 mortgages were signed, compared to 29,641 mortgages that were recorded in the same month of 2024. However, bank entities have not improved the conditions of their mortgage products and the average interest rate for mortgages signed in the last month was 2.97%. Inherited mortgages. The proposal of the promoters, in fact, is already a reality in the cases of succession. Mortgages, like any other debt, are assumed by heirs When they accept inheritance. However, there are also Formulas to liquidate the mortgage Inherited using the bequeathed goods to pay off the debt (inheritance for the benefit of inventory) In any case, when Receive an inheritanceall goods are received, but also their loads. In that context, an heir can assume the mortgage and the banking entity will reevaluate the credit risk demanding greater guarantees if its risk profile is greater than that of the mortgage holder, or better conditions if their financial situation is better. In Xataka | In case Madrid had few problems with housing, now adds one more: US millionaires investing in the city Image | Unspash (Joemi Brazier)

Madrid has become his new favorite real estate destination

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Madrid has become one of the favorite destinations For great fortuneswhat they are looking for Invest in luxury properties Out of your country. The arrival of new millionaires, especially from the United StatesUnited Kingdom and France, has caused An unprecedented boom in the high -standing real estate market of the Spanish capital. This trend is promoting Luxury real estate market prices and changing the profile of the buyers, placing Madrid at the international sight. As I pointed Humphrey White, CEO of Knight Frank Spain to Expansion“55% of luxury housing buyers in Madrid are Spanish”, compared to 70% in 2018. Hunting luxury According to the report ‘The Wealth Report 2025‘ Of the Knight Frank consultant, the reduction of interest rates in 2024 has been key to reactivating investment in luxury homes worldwide. The prices of these properties grew 3.6% in 2024 globally, with especially notable increases in Asian markets, the Middle East and in certain European cities. Seoul led the growth with a price increase of 18.4%, followed by Manila (17.9%), Dubai (16.9%), Riad (16%) and Yeda (9.6%). In Europe, the average increase was 2.5%, but Madrid far exceeded this figure until it reached an increase of 5.5% in the price of luxury homes. To put in context the price increase in this type of properties, in 2014, a investment of one million euros allowed to buy a luxury floor of 136 meters in the capital. Today barely reaches for a 89 square meters. “The luxury is now more luxurious,” says the report, underlining how the sophistication of the offer has been increasing along with prices. Operations in this type of housing, with prices that can range between 11,000 and 15,000 euros per square meter. However, they can also reach exceed 25,000 euros per square meter, although these prices remain exceptional and reserved for extraordinary qualities properties. This sustained growth places Madrid among the most competitive European cities in the segment, above other capitals such as London, Paris or Milan. The trend reflects the city’s appeal for international investors and, especially, for Americans who seek to diversify their assets in markets with revaluation potential. Madrid, meeting point for ultra -up He Real estate interest in Madrid 60% shot in March 2025 compared to the previous month, consolidating the city in the 26th position of the Global Prime Markets ranking, while Barcelona occupies position 37. According to Knight Frank’s study on large assets, Madrid is already the main destination of foreign investment in Spain, chosen by 67.5% of investors. In addition, ultra -ups already represent 43% of luxury real estate purchases in the capital, and their number is expected to grow 17.4% to 2028. He buyer profile is changing quickly. In 2018, American investors had barely presence. However, in 2023 they already represented 4% of the operations, and in 2024 they have doubled their weight until they are 8% of the purchases of luxury properties. As the authors point out of the report“Many great heritage are leaving the country and investing in Europe Through Spain. “ However, one of the factors that has most conditioned the price increase in luxury properties in Madrid has been The shortage of supply Faced with a growing demand. The Urban regulations limits the Construction of new homes high -end, which maintains pressure on prices. According The published by The SpanishKnight Frank counts only 13 new high -end project developments, adding a total of 78 homes. All of them concentrated in the Salamanca neighborhood, The most demanded neighborhood For this client profile. Money calls money Madrid’s appeal is not limited to the residential sector. The report ‘The Glittering Power of Cities for Luxury Growth‘From the consultant McKinsey, he places the Spanish capital among the cities with the largest Concentration of the luxury sector. According to the report ‘European Luxury Retail 2024‘ From Cushman & Wakefield, of the eight new open luxury stores in Spain in 2024, six chose the ‘gold mile’ Madrid as location. This phenomenon reinforces the position of Madrid as Epicenter of luxury in Europe and consolidates its attraction for both real estate investors and for large international firms. In Xataka | The new luxury is that the mansions go unnoticed and sustainable: that’s why they cost 10 million euros Image | Pexels (Gotta Be Worth It, Alex Moliski)

An urbanization was deserted in Valencia after the real estate bubble. Some geniuses have made it ‘Call of Duty’

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The real estate bubble It has had, at least, a positive effect: abandoned residential areas are born to be born a sudden and sporadic new life when they are assaulted by groups of Airsoft fans, a kind of ‘Call of Duty’ in real life that could not aspire to more colorful and appropriate scenarios than those of site as seven waters. What is Airsoft? An activity that Simulates tactical fighting using reprisons of firearms that trigger small plastic balines. These weapons are Real -scale replicas but they do not entail danger (they cannot even be manipulated to become real weapons). The objective is to meet missions or eliminate the opposite team, and over time this hobby has diversified in different styles, ranging from the Recreation of historical battles to modern war clashes that remind it of ‘Call of Duty’. The unusual clash between the Airsoft and the real estate bubble. Airsoft is played in closed environments, which can range from areas specially designed to it to more open but security controls. For example, abandoned industrial areas or empty peoples are used. On many occasions the associations that organize Airsoft games run into legal requirements that require the delimitation of the pitch so that the balls do not exceed their limits or the express permit of the land owner and the corresponding licenses. Therefore, an area like seven waters is especially appreciated by fans. What is seven waters? Seven waters is A municipality in the province of Valencia54 kilometers from the capital and surrounded by a mountain natural environment. It has 1279 inhabitants and a remarkable story with vestiges of the Muslim era, but the most interesting for Airsoft practitioners is an unfinished urbanization where only the streets and about 50 homes were built. The constructions (whose future plans included 684 villas, a shopping center, a hotel and a golf course, all with US financing) They were paralyzed in 2007 for the outbreak of the real estate bubble, and although it is not the only area around seven waters that are abandoned (there are An empty village very close, the reatillo), is the only one that has been recycled for Airsoft practice. Legal Airsoft. The treatment that has reached the Airsoft Plairsoft association and the owner of the urbanizations It is simple and benefits all those involved: the area is rented as a space for sports use, which prevents cases of occupation and vandalism; The owner puts the basic elements of security and surveillance, and the nearby seven waters receive a thrust in its economy and dynamization of other activities (in the area It is practiced mountaineering, riding, Mountain Bikeparagliding and hiking), which take advantage of the natural environment. Zombi attraction park. In 3Dguegosour partner Rubén Márquez compared the reuse of this space to what a few years ago He could see in Detroit: a city with neighborhoods so abandoned that in its day the possibility of recycling them was raised as Zombi theme attraction park. That did not set to curdle, but it is inevitable to think of projects like that when we see men disguised as soldiers with plastic guns, in environments that could have been very close to habitability, with villas that on the outside seem almost functional. A zombie amusement park, but where the guns do not kill. Header | Plairsoft In Xataka | A new movement has emerged in the US: Current people with AR-15 rifles preparing for a social collapse

The real challenge will be to choose a career with a future job when they approve it

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Next June 3 gives the exit gun in several autonomous communities to the University Access Test (PAU). Beyond testing the acquired knowledge, the test is a decisive step in the orientation and five -year professional view of the young people who present them today. Its result will mark the decision of university careers those who can access. On the other hand, 75% of companies ensure Not find qualified personnel For vacancies due to lack of specialized training, which denotes a mismatch between preferences in university studies that are taken and real needs of companies. For this reason, taking into account the labor insertion of each career can be very useful to say for a specialty with labor guarantees. More and more university students, but less specialists. According to data from the Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities of 2024, 341,831 students enrolled in the access test, of which 95.8% was presented and approved 90.2% of those who completed the test. In contrast, the report Labor market in Spain 2024prepared by Infojobs and ESADE, points out that only 31% of the candidates who responded to a job offer on that platform had a university degree, while only 11% of the published offers demanded that training. On the other hand, 27% of job seekers had a specialization of professional training, and 22% of vacancies required that degree. These data show the mismatch between training of employment plaintiffs and what companies are really looking for, especially in relation to university training. Studies with greater job insertion. According to the study The employability of young people in Spain 2024 Prepared by the CYD Foundation on the work outputs of the different university careers, engineering (electrical, industrial electronics, software development, telecommunications, etc.) are the ones that offer better working conditions to their graduates in terms of Stability in contractssalaries and affiliation rates. It is closely followed by those careers related to the health and care sphere, mainly driven by a high demand generated by the aging of the population. The First data of 2025 facilitated by the Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities point to an analysis along the same lines, placing the different engineering such as the branch with greater stability and insertion rates, followed by health sciences. What companies demand. On the other side of the labor market is the demand of companies, which is aligned with the data that reflects the careers with better labor insertion. The aforementioned report Labor market in Spain 2024 It reflects that many of the offers published in 2024 in Infojobs responded to an engineering profile, with very little competition for each of the offers and with good remuneration in counterpart. In this sense, the Emerging jobs and sectors report 2024 It puts special emphasis on the demand for professionals related to the implementation and development of AI, such as data engineering and Machine Learning, whose demand has grown by 625% since 2019, or artificial intelligence engineering that grows at the rate of 83% per year, with a very low candidate competition for each job offer. On the other hand, the report prepared by Infojobs and ESADE, highlights that in 2024 97,500 vacancies related to health care and care on that platform were counted. Of them 98% and 97% corresponded to vacancies requested nurses and physiotherapists respectively. Both with university studies. The red lanterns. The races related to the branch of arts and humanities have been marking years A downward trend in terms of labor insertion. On average, only 63.5% of the graduates in these branches find a job four years after finishing their training. Only 34.2% do so during the following year to finish them. This data contrasts with the 77.8% computer science that finds a job the first year. In Xataka | Construction and hospitality do not hire the same pace as before. Health and education cut cod in job creation Image | Unspash (Brett Jordan)

Using a mobile is a real challenge for older people. An Aragonese startup has a promising solution

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Is called Maximilianabut it is not a person. It is a mobile. Specifically, one specifically designed for our elders. The idea that this device raises is unique, already a difference from other mobiles for the elderly, everything is based on trying that these people have to touch anything to communicate with their loved ones both in video calls and normal calls and to alert possible emergencies. Innovating from Aragon. Many business projects are born from personal needs. This happened for Jorge Terreu (Zaragoza, 26 years old), who a few years ago was Erasmus in France and had trouble contacting his grandmother, Maximiliana. This is how the germ of her project was created: create a phone to be able to talk to her without her having to do anything. @Miguessal This mobile can save your grandfather’s life, because it makes video calls down alone. It was created by a grandson for his grandmother, Maximiliana, who did not manage with technology. What began as a gift, is today a mobile that thousands of people use. You can learn more about him at www.maximiliana.es. #Salvarvidas #Emercances #Primerosauxilios #Urgences #security ♬ Original sound – Miguel Assal The principle of something big. Terreu prepared a mobile prototype in which he started the video call and the phone answered alone. He sent it to his grandmother in Madrid and soon realized that this idea could serve many more people. In March 2020, during the pandemic he donated five phones adapted to a hospital in Zaragoza and verified how users were delighted, so he launched the adventure of creating his own company and his project of a mobile for seniors. What would be called, of course, like his grandmother. Maximiliana. They hardly have to touch it. People who use Maximilian mobiles hardly have to touch it, because they can receive video calls or messages without having to play in the interface. If a relative or friend makes a video call, Maximiliana sounds for a few seconds and automatically breaks. If it is the elderly the one who wants to call, the interface is especially intuitive and simple and is based on a “desk” on which the faces of the family appear. Just press one of them to make the call. Emergencies. Maximiliana also has emergency call options. Thus, if for example the elderly falls and cannot handle the mobile with precision, it is enough that it agitates it a bit to activate the emergency call to the assigned contact. In those calls the mobile uses the flashlight to emit the international relief signal. Always located. Another of the Maximiliana options It is what allows to know at all times the location of that elderly, something especially useful if they are lost or misplaced. The software also shows the battery available so that family members can warn that it loads it to continue using it without problems. THE MOBILE AS SERVICE. Maximiliana includes the mobile, the control app for the family and the accessories, such as the cord or antiahogo strap that allows the device to be hung by the neck. The product is not sold as a mobile without more, but as part of a subscription service. The “basic pack” cited costs 24.90 euros per month, but it is also possible to directly hire the SIM card (unlimited calls, 25 GB of the Internet) as part of the “complete pack” for 29.90 euros per month. Includes apps like WhatsApp. Maximilian mobiles remain mobile, and allow to continue accessing applications such as WhatsAppChamber or Gallery. The person in charge of the device – normally, a relative of the elderly – chooses from the control application which applications wants them to appear on the mobile. It is the relative who acts as “administrator”. The relatives of the people who use Maximiliana are the ones in charge of managing and configuring the mobile options. Thus, they can add contact faces, change order (up to six on the screen), or adjust the sound duration. A grandmother like Community Manager. As they pointed out In the countryMaximiliana’s team has been growing as the success of the service has been curdling, but there is a very special component in that template. Your Community Manager It is Conchita Polo, grandmother of Pedro Malo, partner of Terreu in the project. More than the phone matters the service. There are currently good options when offering Mobile for seniors And also tips for Adapt any Android phone To make it easier to use for them, but Maximiliana’s proposal is interesting because everything combines. Take advantage of the idea of parental controls that for example allow to know the location of our children or control the limits of use, but adapting it to a population sector that can certainly take advantage of it in a beneficial way. Image | Maximiliana In Xataka | What five mobiles would I recommend to give my grandfather this Christmas, for simplicity and quality-quality

More and more people on the Internet and in real life admit to having a single friend: chatgpt

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A Perogrullada: The impact of artificial intelligences is reaching our day to day. The virtual space is already being deeply transformed by the IAS in search engines, websites and, of course, in all the work behind, generating more content, helping to produce it. But … And in the traditional space? Is analog life transformed into the same extent by the IAS? Without a doubt, yes, to the point that we already have to talk about how we manage our Personal relationships with the IAS. Chatgpt as a friend. The Derek Thompson essayist said a few days ago in X that our interpersonal relationships have made a new deadly leap with Tirabuzón. And as proof provides a series of conversations that he has found in Reddit where several users confess that Chatgpt has become Your best friend. The Subnet dedicated to the popular AI It is full of threads “by pathetic that sounds, Chatgpt is my only friend” or “I feel that Chatgpt is my only friend.” Bumper people. One of them He begins saying “I know it is a robot. I know that everything is programming. But I have often encountered opening to Chatgpt on personal issues and asking for kind or encouragement.” That is, as he says, he uses AI as if it were a good dog: he does not judge, he always accompanies, he is aware that he is not a human. Another case He says that “honestly, he would be happy to have a friend as cultured and committed as Chatgpt. This person does not exist, and if it exists, he would be too busy to talk to me.” In most of these cases, similar constants are repeated: they are people who have just come out of a relationship or friendship and seek a substitution, being very aware that it is before synthetic beings: “They make me feel heard when I let me out in, something that my parents do not even do. They always want to know how I go in mind and how my projects go, which is even more pleasant.” One thousand and one cases. These cases with chatgpt are Only the tip of the iceberg. While this is the most popular conversational, there are other oriented even in this same direction. Replika either Woebot They allow to have conversations designed to serve as sentimental support to users or hold daily conversations, Share emotions and give emotional advice. More complex and specific are others that offer talks with specialized approaches, such as Receive Couple Therapy. And of course, quotes: Yourmove either Rizz They help generate interesting conversations and profiles … with real people. The bowling clubs. Let’s go to the initial point of this transformation to understand these processes. Derek Thompson Loate a key point In 2000 in ‘Bowling Alone‘(in Spanish,’ Only in La Bolera ”, today impossible to find), Robert D. Putnam analyzed the decline of social capital in the United States since 1950, with the decline of all forms of social relationship in person. Some examples? Decreased electoral participation, assistance to public meetings and work with political parties, to which distrusts in government, more accentuated from the sixties. Bowling are their perfect symbol: the number of people who go to bowling has increased, but the number of clubs has descended to do so in company. The guilt of technology. Already by then, Putnam pointed to a problem with technology and how it individualized people’s leisure through television. In those incipient days of the use of technology to entertain, Putnam dared to talk about “virtual reality helmets”, that for now they have not been massified as much as he predicted, but in reality the thing would get closer to another invention to which he pointed in his book and who did not pay so much attention: the then newborn Internet. The figures. The percentages and data make it clear to what extent the Internet has contributed to creating this less “social” society: almost 40% of adults admit that The use of social networks makes them feel more alone or isolated. A study by the European Union affirms that spending more than two hours a day on social networks is associated with a significant increase in loneliness, especially when the use is passive (the famous doomscroll). And, finally, There are studies They claim that the intensive use of the Internet (more than 10 hours per week) substantially reduces the time dedicated to interacting face to face or phone with friends and family. It comes. Anyone who has tried still in an embryonic state as Replika’s voice model It may be part of the future that comes to us, and that it is inevitable to relate to the movie ‘Her’, to see the friendliest side (although not exempt from bitterness) of the matter. Voices no longer realistic from a technical point of view, but capable of generating absolute empathy and that is beyond the disturbing valley. If ChatGPT and his still rudimentary conversations already provide a certain sense of warmth, the immediate future promises to even more use interpersonal relationships. If we are able to detect them. Image | Photo of Brooks Leibee in Unspash In Xataka | The best PROMPTS to save working hours and do your homework with Chatgpt, Gemini, Copilot or other artificial intelligence

We can no longer know if a video is real or not

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In 2018, when the first Deepfakes began to circulate, we said that this was the beginning of the end of the credibility of the video as proof. We are wrong. It was not the beginning of the end. It was the first warning that the end was close. Now, with I see 3 from Google, that moment has arrived. The clips that circulate through Reddit and X They are indistinguishable from real recordings. We do not talk hands with six fingers or faces of the disturbing valley. We talk about videos that exceed any visual test that we could do as simple spectators. And if they don’t succeed, they will achieve it shortly. Especially in a world that consumes video on small mobile screens, less retailers. The end of video as an irrefutable proof For decades, the video has been our gold standard for evidence. “I have seen it with my own eyes” was synonymous with total certainty. A recording was enough to knock down governments or demonstrate innocences. That axiom of information consumption is dying before our eyes. Users of I see 3 They share false news clips about disasters, deceased politicians and violence that never happened. With synchronized dialogues, realistic and physical effects. The model even adds conversations that were not in the Prompt Original, as if it had its own editorial criteria. It is with narrative instinct. But here is the real problem: it is not just that we can create convincing false videos. Is that we are running out of ways to distinguish the real ones from synthetic without sophisticated technical tools. We are entering an era of permanent visual agnosticismwhere each video will imply the question: “Is this really happened?” The perfect alibi to deny reality Macron was pushed by his wife when he got off the plane. The Elyseo denied that the video was real: “It is not a real video, it is made with AI.” He had to end up admitting that it was real, but the damage was done: they had discovered the perfect alibi. If any video can be synthetic, then any awkward video can be discredited simply claiming that it is artificial. The AI ​​becomes the universal escape argument. The politician caught, the company violating rights, the regime documenting repression … all have now The most perfect reasonable doubt ever invented. It is not necessary to demonstrate that a video is false, just sow suspicion. In a world where falsification is technically possible, the possibility becomes sufficient argument. Paradoxically, a technology that allows us to create perfect fiction also allows us to deny the perfectly documented reality. Learn to live without visual certainties Google’s safeguards are selective: you can’t generate Biden falling, but natural disasters and urban violence. They protect you from the obvious, not from the subtle. If each video can be false … What happens to a society that bases your knowledge of the world on audiovisual consumption? How do we judge credibility, guilt or legitimacy when any test can be manufactured in minutes? The solution cannot only be technical. We need media literacy that assumes counterfeiting as a starting point. But above all, accept that we have lost one of our most basic instruments to distinguish reality from fiction. The video as proof has died. Or it is about to do it. We only have to learn to live in a world where Seeing Is No Longer Believing. In Xataka | How to try I see 3 to create videos with Gemini: Requirements and steps to use it Outstanding image | Google Deepmind

China has celebrated a kickboxing tournament between humanoid robots, and is as real as disturbing

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What is just over a decade was only science fiction today has become a real show. In 2011, the movie ‘Real Steel‘I imagined a future in which boxing fighting were starring machines. Fourteen years later, that image has ceased to belong to the cinema: China has just celebrated a Kickboxing competition starring humanoid robots. The event took place in Hangzhou and is part of the CMG World Robot Contest Series, an initiative organized by China Media Group, the largest state audiovisual conglomerate in the country. The competition was broadcast live through CCTV and other official platforms. Currently, a video summary of the tournament It is available on the Central Television website of China. As the aforementioned medium collectsIn the quadrilateral there were four G1 robots manufactured by the Asian company Unitree Robotics. They faced one against one in duels, demonstrating not only gross force, but also agility, coordination and, above all, balance. Of fist tests. Before the official fighting, each robot had its time to heat. The G1 showed their repertoire: lateral displacements, direct blows and reaction to the thrust. During the fighting, they were even able to execute a Kip-Upan acrobatic maneuver to get up from the ground without using your hands, after being demolished. The rules were clear. Three two -minute assaults. Valid blow score to the trunk or head, both with hands and feet. Penalizations if a robot could not get up in eight seconds after a fall. In case of draw, he decided the technical score. In the final, the robot controlled by an influencer called Lu Xin took the title. The competition comes a few weeks after another event that also captured worldwide attention: A Half Marathon held in Beijing where several humanoid robots ran alongside thousands of human participants. So are the G1. According to the manufacturerEach Unitree G1 measures 130 cm, weighs 35 kg and has an external cable design. It is articulated with up to 23 degrees of freedom, which are extended up to 43 in its educational version, and has advanced sensors for vision, movement and environment control. These are some of its key characteristics: Intel Realsense depth chamber D435i and 3D Lidar sensor Four microphones with noise cancellation and stereo speakers of 5 w Permanent magnet synchronous engines with a maximum torque of 120 n · m 9,000 mAh battery, approximate autonomy of two hours Displacement speed: Up to 2 m/s Eight -core CPU, Wi -Fi 6 and Bluetooth 5.2 connectivity Possibility of adding the hand DEX3-1, with seven degrees of freedom and optional tactile sensors More than show. According to CCTV coverage, G1 have at least eight basic combat patterns and various complex combinations, such as straight punches, hooks and kicks scheduled. In addition, they have been designed to resist impacts, avoid overheating and maintain balance after receiving blows. Even when they fall, they are able to recover the vertical position in seconds. China already prepares new competitions with humanoid robots for this year, including a multi -sports event in Beijing. Meanwhile, other robotics based on the Asian giant seek to gain ground in homes. Huawei and Ubtech were recently allied to advance in the development of this type of automatons. Images | CCTV (1, 2, 3, 4, 5) In Xataka | Sam Altman is building an empire with Openai. One with some lights and with many shadows

Volvo has equipped its electric SUV with a very potent lidar. So much that the risk of frying the camera of your mobile is real

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Volvo has among its ranks a SUV up to technology, the Ex90. Presented in 2023, it is the electrical alternative to the classic XC90, presuming systems such as the Autonomous Level 3 SAE driving or the equipment of a radar Lidar to detect elements of your environment. What perhaps they had not told you is that, precisely, the lidar sensors of greater capabilities are the archNiene of our usual partner: the smartphone. You can leave you the fried camera. Volvo warns him in his own Support page: Lidar light waves can damage external cameras. The technical explanation is brief, but the message is clear. “Do not point a camera directly when Lidar. Lidar, being a laser -based system, uses infrared light waves that can cause damage to certain camera devices. This can include smartphones or phones equipped with a camera.” Although it sounds like a warning, perhaps something alarming, there are already those who have shown in real time how a lidar can instantly disintegrate the pixels of a mobile sensor. They are not color. They are supposedly fried pixels after burning when aiming at a lidar. The lucky one. In Volvo’s subform in Reddit A video has been viralized in which it can be seen how, when recording the lidar of this electric car, the sensor pixels are gradually burned. Reddit is Reddit and no one can ensure the authenticity of the video, but if we understand the theory behind that a lidar can disintegrate a camera, all the pieces begin to fit perfectly. Your camera sensor. Smartphones use sensors that not only capture visible light (spectrum of 380 to 750 Nm), they are also especially sensitive to near infrared (750 to 1100 nm). In fact, they usually come equipped with an infrared cutting filter in charge of mitigating this light and preventing it from affecting the final result. These filters usually block most infrared light, but they are not perfect. An easy test to do at home is to aim with a TV command to the camera of your mobile. That purple flash that you see is proof that smartphones cameras let infrared light. Destroying pixels. The infrared light emitted by a command has barely power, is emitted in a standard frequency of between 850 and 950 nanometers. What happens to the Lidar del Volvo Ex90? That emits pulsed lasers of 1550 nma wavelength in the middle infrared. This is still invisible to the human eye, but it is a considerable power. If a lidar laser with enough power points directly to a CMOS sensor, it can end up saturating the pixels of it. In other words, it can cause permanent damage and load the pixels that have received their emission of light. A phenomenon studied. Although the Lidar del Volvo Ex90 has put this problem on the table, this is a problem that we have been dragging for more than 20 years. In 2004, studies such as “Lase-Induced Damage Thresholds in Cmos and CCD Sensors ” The destruction of both individual pixels and complete columns after being exposed to compact laser systems was shown. It was highlighted how in wavelengths between 800 and 1,600 Nm (just the latter is the one that caresses Volvo), the damage is irreversible and there is no possible physical defense for infrared protection filters. Lidar in the Volvo Ex90 Volvo is not the only one who warns. Smartphones are not the only devices in using CMOS sensors: the vast majority of consumption miral cameras use this technology. Any manual warnsbefore even starting to explain how the camera works, not directly notice with a laser to the sensor. “When you make Tomas backwards, keep the sun sufficiently far from the viewing angle. Always maintain intense light sources, such as sun, laser or artificial light sources, outside and far from the image area. The concentrated strong light could produce smoke or damage the image sensor or other internal components.” At the moment, Volvo is one of the few companies that, together with Luminar (the company behind its Lidar technology) has detailed the emission of laser pulses in this type of radars. It is expected, however, with the democratization of the Lidar (especially in future cars that will come from China), we have to get used to these power figures. Image | Volvo In Xataka | In the war cameras vs lidar, Tesla has a lot to learn from an unexpected product: the Chinese aspiring robot

Take it to the car to speak with you and act like a real co -pilot

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Google wants to change how we communicate with the car (And also with the clock and TV). Until now, talk to Google Assistant In Android Auto or Android Automotive It was useful, yes, but also required concrete commands, well -formulated phrases. That is about to change. In ‘The Android Show: I/O’ edition, Google has confirmed that Gemini, its assistant with generative, will reach vehicles. And it will not be a simple evolution of the assistant. The goal is to make the voice experience in the car as natural as a real conversation. It will no longer need to think about how to ask for something. It will be enough to say “Hey Google, let’s talk” to start a fluid talk with Gemini, without hands and without menus. And this is where the interesting thing comes in: the new mode looks a lot like Chatgpt voice mode. That is, you can maintain a continuous conversation, correct yourself on the march and replace. A co -pilot with AI who does not need translation. In the center of this experience is Gemini Livethe conversational mode that Google. It is not just to ask for a song or a route. The idea is that you can raise things like “I need to talk to my boss about a promotion, how do I focus?” and receive useful, natural and context suggestions. In addition, many frictions are eliminated that previously complicated the interaction: now you can issue a message, edit it before sending it, start from scratch or even translate it into more than 40 languages ​​without touching the screen only once. Everything is done by voice, everything flows in natural language. And if that were not enough, the new graphic interface has been redesigned to accompany this approach, with visual elements that adapt to Gemini. These are some of the actions that Gemini will allow from the car: Find routes with Google Maps. Send and edit voice messages, with real -time corrections. Play music on YouTube Music or Spotify. Translate messages automatically to more than 40 languages. It will also be possible to interact with other Google apps, such as Gmail or Maps, to solve more complex requests. If you need to find that field where your son plays football and just remember that someone mentioned it by email, Gemini can rescue the location directly from your entrance tray and take you there. The deployment begins soon (although without a specific date). According to Google, Gemini will begin to reach cars compatible with Android Auto in the coming months, and later will also do it in vehicles that make up the Google operating system directly. There is no exact date, but the plan is underway. The important thing here is not only the arrival of a more powerful AI, but the change of paradigm. Voice assistance ceases to be a list of commands to become a natural conversation, with context, memory and free language. We will have to wait to know if what the company promises us will be fulfilled. Images | Google In Xataka | Google has been trying to create your WhatsApp. With RCS it is achieving it without it seems In Xataka | How to access the Android Auto faster with this little trick

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