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Christmas has become the big business of happiness, and that turns sadness into something revolutionary

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“The second most important fact about Christmas is that it is one of the times of year when the suicide rate increases.” This is how a text by Alasdair MacIntyre, one of the most important moral philosophers of the 20th century, begins. circulates on the internet every Christmas. We know that the data is not true (no more people commit suicide at this time) and, in fact, we are not even sure that this text was written by MacIntyre (although the reference also appears in his main work): However, it is something that keeps repeating itself over and over again. It will be because, despite the lights and the fanfare, there are many people who approach the ‘happy holidays’ as something deeply sad. The great Christmas dissonance. There are many ways to view Christmas, but in almost all of them there is something of a great social celebration of happiness. It is the time of sharing, of meeting loved ones, of reconciliation, of taking advantage of the time as if another spring were not going to come after the barren winter. But what if we don’t want/need/can feel that way? That is, what if in the middle of that chorus of messages, posters and songs that tell us that we should be fine, what we feel is that, simply, “we are not”? Usually, when the implicit norm is “feeling grateful, generous and happy”, anything that goes beyond that is perceived with a mixture of shame and self-criticism; puts on a “good face” (emotional performance) and fatigue, irritability and you end up burning. And everything we lack. “Christmas is also a recounting”, said the writer Gonzalo Torné. “It is the day that as children they taught us what our family landscape was, the people who were interested in us and whom we could count on. And the day that, absence after absence, we confirmed the fragility of what as children we learned as something stable.” The duels. It is a quite precise text: during this type of festival, all the duels that we carry behind us are also activated. It’s not just about “nostalgia”, it’s about everything a ritual of remembering absences on which we have built our lives. Just as the idea that MacIntyre mentioned at the beginning does not fit the data, the truth is that, among the population treated in psychiatric emergencies at Christmas, the “stressors that are repeated the most“are loneliness and being-without-family. A “pressure cooker.” Because, let’s face it, last year up to 20% of Spaniards They experienced political fights at some family dinner. Six out of ten, in fact, avoid talking about controversial topics not to argue: the great “polarization” is converting all in one problem (that adds to material stress and unequal loads). Many reasons, only one why. MacIntyre said that much of this is because “we have lost any ability to understand our lives as something that embodies a narrative structure—not to mention narratives in which there is hope for a happy ending.” No need to go that far. Everything seems to indicate that it is something simpler: Christmas runs the risk of becoming something sad when it becomes an emotional obligation. That is the great design problem of these parties, which, being made to “feel accompanied”, by contrast, make losses, inequalities and fractures visible. We need to reclaim sadness… also at Christmas. In recent years, and with increasing force, positive thinking has become fashionable. Ideas like “You have to be optimistic”, “Don’t give up” or “Always positive, never negative” have become true mantras of our time. But as he says the teacher Jose César Peralesfrom the University of Granada, positive thinking has serious problems that we overlook due to its friendly and adorable appearance. Our culture, increasingly full of characters, is gradually distancing us from a simple truth: that “we suffer, hate or are envious because they are the way we live reality. Denying it, embracing an irrational and meaningless positivism, is the contemporary way of denying ourselves.” Isn’t Christmas a good time to accept ourselves? Image | Bryan Heng In Xataka | Toledo promised them happy holidays with its 49-day mega Christmas. Until the neighbors said ‘not so fast’

We have been fascinated for years by the geniuses who come up with revolutionary innovations out of thin air. It’s always been smoke

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We live in times in which innovation, creative genius and the search for the next technological revolution are everything. We all want to know who it is the next Mark Zuckerberg, the next Steve Jobs either the next Albert Einstein. So much so that we project our way of looking at the world onto the past and, from time to time, texts appear that talk about the past. great forgotten geniuses to whom history did not do justice. But the truth is that most of the time, those great geniuses are rightly forgotten. Contrary to what we usually think, inventors usually do not exist. At least, if they are not lucky people. Smoke (or vapor) sellers Perhaps the best example is the steam engine. Which, in fact, must be one of the machines that has been invented the most times in History. The usual version is that the steam engine was developed and perfected in England between the end of the 17th century and the end of the 18th century. And that, on the other hand and always according to this version, was the engine of the industrial revolution. It’s not exact. Although archaeologists could surely give us previous examples, the aeolipilethe first “steam engine”, was invented by Heron of Alexandria in the first century after Christ. At first, and for many years, it had a recreational purpose (it is a sphere filled with water that, when heated, rotates). The first steam engine. But Heron too created automatic doors and hydraulic fountains which allow us to affirm, without risking too much, that Roman scientists had more than enough capacity to design Thomas Savery’s steam engine without messing up. Later, a century before, according to modern historiography, Mr. Savery invented the first steam engine, Jerónimo de Ayanz, a native of Navarra, also designed an incipient steam engine. Even before that we can find works by Florence Rivault, Taqui ad-Din or Giovanni Branca in which the steam engine was there, within reach. Windmills, mops and table football The same thing happens with water mills. Traditionally, it was considered that this type of mills had been discovered in the Middle Ages because it is the historical period from which we have material remains. But it’s not true. In ancient times, hydraulic mills were known, and very well. In fact, It is known that they also began to expand throughout the 1st century AD. And so on ad nauseum. The question is clear: no, the mop It was not invented in Spain, nor the lollipopsneither the table football. As evidently, and strictly speaking, neither the Spanish nor the Vikings ‘discovered‘America. A few days ago we discussed here in Xataka who was the “creator” of injectable insulin (Nicholas Paulescu either McLeod, Banting and Best?) in a reissue of the famous paradox of “if a tree falls in the middle of the forest and no one hears it, Has it made noise? Has it even fallen?” A key lesson we can draw from this is that, well, inventing something, discovering something, or developing genius is of no use. For hundreds of years we knew how to use water to produce physical work, but it wasn’t until the implosion of the slave system that mills really became popular. For fifteen hundred years we knew everything there was to know to create a steam engine. In fact, wealthy children had small miniature engines. It was not until the specific needs of British mining introduced Savery’s gadget that the steam engine set out to change the world. You don’t get here from nowhere. (Unsplash) Mops and tiled floors, lollipops and the decrease in infant mortality, table football and the incipient improvement in the quality of life of the working classes. Victor Hugo said that “there is nothing more powerful in the world than an idea whose time has come.” And he had to be right because “without their moment”, ideas are nothing. Technology, society and vice versa The cult of innovation, creative genius and disruptive inventions is one of those characteristics of our time that permeates everything. But, in general, innovations are only of degree. Also in the world of technology where we can almost always find a proof of concept that, twenty years before, already advanced the next revolution in the sector. Basically, as we examine technological history, we realize that seeing the world as a succession of great geniuses is very attractive, but not very realistic. Undoubtedly, there are people who advance the knowledge or technology of their time by decades, but if we want to get a real picture of how innovation has worked over the centuries, the strategy is different: think of history as a very long conversation full of opportunities, misunderstandings and moments of genius. There is no need to make it more attractive. Image | Md Mahdi In Xataka | One company has made the biggest breakthrough in toilet paper in 100 years. And its sales are skyrocketing In Xataka | We have a long-term problem with concrete. That’s why someone has come up with staple bricks that don’t need it.

In 2018 Russia presented its new and revolutionary humanoid robot. The only problem is that it wasn’t a robot.

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Yeah “AI” is a trendy technological concept, the other is robotics. humanoid robotsspecifically. The United States and China have embarked on a race to see who creates humanoid consumer robotsbut when in 2018 it was only Atlas jumpingRussia already had a humanoid robot dancing and putting on a show. His name was Boris, but there was one problem: he wasn’t a robot. robotic cold war. Until the recent generation of robots, which have left laboratories and workshops to become compete even in sports eventsthe great reference in robotics was Boston Dynamics. On the one hand, with Spot, the robot dog. On the other hand, with an Atlas that did parkour and executed very fluid and calculated movements. Although owned by Hyundai, those advances came from the United States, and Russia wanted to get into the conversation. Thus, in December of 2018, something occurred on the state channel Russia-24: a robot that looked like an astronaut and named Boris came on stage. He did so in the city of Yaroslavl, where the Proyektoria Annual Science and Technology Forum had just been inaugurated, aimed at promoting robotics and technology among young people. It was an important event, since it had the support of the Ministry of Education itself and Putin had attended previous versions. The Russian prodigy. Boris was a machine, in the figurative sense. He danced, talked, had dreams and illusions, stating that he wanted to learn musical composition and draw, and it was treaty like a celebrity on the television channel. It was the most advanced example of Russian robotics and seemed finished. Atlas had cables hangingBoris a helmet, little lights and he was a movie robot. There were those who began to wonder things. Appears at the 32nd hour of this video. Suspicions. TJournal is a Russian technology website and was one of the first to question the authenticity of the robot. How to collect BBCthe questions were quite accurate: Why aren’t there any sensors? How has it appeared out of nowhere without prior leaks? Why is no one on the Internet talking about something so advanced? Why were some movements so fluid during the dance? Why was the voice so robotic? And most importantly: why was it so unnecessarily large? But the most important thing is that, beyond the official images of Russia-24, which seemed to be very concerned that the country gave the impression of having this very advanced device, there were other images. Taken by the assistants, in some of those photos from behind a human neck was perfectly visible protruding from the back of Boris’s head. Caught. Very expensive costume. There was no need to investigate much: Boris was nothing more than a suit that a worker had put on. The suit could be bought. If you had 3,600 euros, you could buy the Alyosha model from the Show Robots company, which also came with Iron Man or Robocop suits. In fact, it was a media agency founded by a rival of Putin that public some photos with the actor putting on the suit. Deception? Naaah, a joke. Imagine the embarrassment after pulling on the blanket. The video went viral and was mocked, so much so that, a few days after its publication, Russia-24 removed it from its YouTube channel. However, two days after the original broadcast, they re-uploaded it and published an interview with the journalist who had done the piece. The excuse? He was sure no one would believe it, since he was like Santa Claus: a project for children. The problem is that the journalist narrated the original report as if it were Russia’s latest technological marvel. Those responsible for Proyektoria threw up their hands and said that they had never claimed that it was a robot, that it was not their business and that those at Russia-24 did not find out about the film. The problem is that there were those who pulled the blanket and discovered that Russia-24 had already shown a fake military robot. In fact, in 2019 the play was repeated with another robot taking the kickoff in a match between FC Orenburg and CSK Moscow. It was another man in disguise and the video is brutal. The state of Russian robotics… In the international media there were those who laughed it off, like CBS affirming that “regardless of the intention, Boris will not go down in history as the most embarrassing example of Russian fake news.” And we remember this episode because, recently, Russia has presented AIdol, its first humanoid robot. Already gone… wrong. With the soundtrack of ‘Rocky’ in the background and with a face of “please, what am I doing here”, the first thing the new Russian robot did was take a couple of steps to fall on its face. The scene is high-level unintentional comedy, with the robot kicking on the floor and the employees taking it away and covering the stage with a large black cloth. At least AIdol is real. Images | ПроеКТОриЯ In Xataka | In China they are not satisfied with creating advanced robots: a company has developed a head that gestures like a human

The new revolutionary technique to say goodbye to glasses

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We are thousands of people who We have gone through an operating room to submit to a Lasik surgery To correct the vision problem and say goodbye to glasses definitively. And although this is very safe and very common surgery in the day -to -day life of many ophthalmologists, it is still a surgery that is literally “carving” the cornea. Now a research team proposes a radical alternative: correcting vision without lasers, without cuts and in approximately a minute. A new tennic one that already has a name. Through the autumn meeting From the American Chemical Society (ACS), the researchers They presented a technique To remodel the cornea, a small electric current and a kind of platinum lentilla will be used to remodel the tissue precisely and less invasive. This is what they have called Electromechanical remodeling (EMR). The ‘Kit of the matter’ lies in the cornea. To understand innovation, you must first know that The cornea is the transparent ‘dome’ that we find in the front of the eye. Its function is to focus the light on the retina where the cones and canes that are responsible for interpreting the shapes or colors are found. If the shape of this cornea is not perfect, the image that reaches the brain is blurred, giving a pathology that we can know how myopiaFreemetropia or astigmatism. This means that when we want to operate to eliminate these pathologies, the state and thickness of the cornea have to be analyzed. The problem of lasik: “carving” the eye. Lasik surgery Correct this using a laser to eliminate or “carve” microscopic portions of corneal tissue and give it the proper shape. As explained Michael Hill, professor of chemistry at the western College and one of the authors of the study, “LASIK is just an elegant way to do traditional surgery. It is still tissue carving, only with a laser.” In this way, the elimination of a fabric that will never recover is highlighted as a negative point of this surgery. In addition, surgery also conditions have an adequate cornea thickness so that the surgeon can eliminate enough tissue to achieve a good result. And in some people the cornea is really fine. Having this problem in front, the objective of research equipment was clear: mold the fabric instead of eliminating it. Chemistry to make the malleable cornea. The key to this new technique lies in the composition of the cornea. This fabric, rich in collagen, maintains its shape thanks to a network of ionic links between components with opposite loads. The research team, led by Hill and the surgeon Brian Wong of the University of California, discovered that they could “temporarily loosen” this network. Although it was a result they saw almost by accident. The process to get a malleable cornea. For understand how they can do it In a simple way, we will divide the process into the following points: Everything begins by applying a small electrical potential on corneal tissue through an electrode. This current causes the electrolysis of the water present in the tissue, which reduces the pH of the tissue to make it more acidic. This acidity neutralizes the negative loads within the collagen matrix, weakening the links that rigidly keep the cornea, so it will temporarily be malleable to give it the way you want. Once the electric current is removed, the pH returns to its physiological state and the ionic bonds network is restored, causing the cornea to be ‘rigid’ again. Correcting myopia in 10 minutes. To prove their theory, they created some platinum “lenses” that served as a mold with the form of corrected cornea. They placed these in twelve rabbit ocular balloons Ex vivo (that is, they were removed from the animal) and that they were submerged in saline solution to simulate tears. In the 10 eyes that simulated myopia, the result was a success. After applying the electric current for approximately one minute, the cornea curvature adapted perfectly to the shape of the platinum lentilla, correcting the refractive defect. All this at the same time as Lasik technique lasts, but with less steps, a cheaper team and without having to make an incision. A promising future, but with obstacles. Although the theory has worked in these eyes, there is still many steps to take. The fact that a treatment of this caliber reaches a patient is a process that can take many years. At the moment, the next step is to move on to the experimentation in animals, including mice that are alive, in order to evaluate the safety of the procedure. Subsequently, and after the approval of the FDA, You can go through humans in their different scales. In this way, we can go to the next decade before seeing it announce as a valid treatment. Although they also have the financing of the project that is in the air right now. Other uses are also explored. In addition to being a suitable treatment for myopia, farsightedness or astigmatism, the technique could have other applications. One of them is the ability of surgery to reverse certain types of corneal opacity that are caused by exposure to chemicals. This is something that could only be treated with a complete cornea transplant. Aesthetic surgeries are the order of the day. The fact of removing glasses is much For aesthetic reasons and comfort, something that is the order of the day. We have already seen how there are people capable of breaking their bones by have a few centimeters tall or as in the United States Surgery is popularized to make an eye color change. But it’s not something now, since 2,000 years ago The Romans themselves did these surgeries To be able to change the physical. Images | Olga Guryanova In Xataka | The patient who has survived 12 different tumors and hides the “holy grail” of the fight against cancer

The most revolutionary and rare writing machine was lost in 1940. Until someone received a message

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Many may not know, but WRITE MACHINES Not only were they important in the past, the present would not be auctionally similar without these tools. In fact, in 1980 Apple made a decision that few understood: declare him War to the machine to write Several centuries before, in China, someone devised the most revolutionary of all these machines. The problem is that there was only one and lost. Until now. Lost keys. THE HISTORY LA had the New York Times. It all started in 2007, when Tom MullaneyProfessor of Chinese History at Stanford, prepared a presentation about the disappearance of Chinese characters and wondered how something printed could be forgotten. That doubt led him to A revelation: How had a writing system as vast as the Chinese mechanized? He did not remember ever seeing a Chinese typewriter, and when he knocked down in his office to look at old patents, a trip that would last for years began. Discovered that, although scarce, they had existed dozen different models Chinese writing machines, each with ingenious solutions to try to represent thousands of ideograms in a portable frame. One is missing. From there, Mullaney launched a kind of hunting global: He called collectors, heirs traced on ancestry.com, visited churches, museums, even stores. Over time He gathered a collection Of unique devices, some rescued by very little of oblivion, aware that each one was an unrepeatable piece of the history of mechanized writing. However, there was a machine that could not find, not even dreaming of recovering: the legendary mingkwai. Lin Yutang’s mingkwai writing machine, as illustrated in its patent application The impossible machine. The Mingkwai It was created in the 40s by Lin Yutanga Chinese intellectual based in New York who feared that China, if it did not modernize their way of writing, It would be behind in front of foreign powers. To solve the dilemma of how to represent thousands of characters with a few keys, Lin devised a Revolutionary mechanical system: Any combination of two keys activated gears that showed up to eight possible characters in a central window that baptized as the “magical eye”, allowing the user to choose the right one. With only 72 keys, Lin had built an interface that allowed to generate tens of thousands of charactersa kind of chimeric keyboard capable of typing an entire universe. He baptized his creation as Mingkwai, which can be translated (freely) as “clear and fast.” Lost. The problem is that your demonstration before Remington executives It was a disaster: The machine failed and Lin ended up ruined. Along the way, the only prototype was sold to Mergenthaler Linotype, a Brooklyn printing press. From there, the trail It was lost. In his book The Chinese Typewriter (2017), Mullaney wrote that it was most likely to have ended in a landfill. Until, by chance, something extraordinary happened. Lin Yutang The reunion. We arrive at January 2025when Jennifer and Nelson Felix, from Massopequa (New York), reviewed boxes stored after her death. Suddenly, they found A wooden box containing something strange: a typewriter with Chinese keys. Nelson, fond of sale on Facebook, He published some photos In a specialized group without imagining that I was going to detonate a storm of messages. In less than an hour, hundreds of comments, many in Chinese, shouted at one thing: “Contact Tom!” While giving a talk in Chicago, Mullaney He began to receive a waterfall of notifications. As soon as he saw the photos, the man knew that he had to do with the mingkwai. Fear of losing it. The Times told that the historian did not feel jubilation with the news, but rather fear. If someone bought it on eBay and turned it into a lamp or a coffee table, it would disappear forever. What did he do? He wrote to the couple urgently, he told them the history of the machine and asked them to consider sell it to a museum. Jennifer, incredulous, understood in a short time that the object of more than 50 kilos was not just junk. “It was lost half a century,” he explained to Times. “We didn’t want it to be lost again.” From the basement to the campus. The story charged an unexpected turn when Mullaney discovered that Jennifer’s grandfather, Douglas Arthur Jung, had worked on Mergenthaler Linotype And he probably saved the scratch machine when he took it with him. For decades, the family had preserved it without knowing what it was. In April, the couple accepted Sell to Stanfordwhich acquired it thanks to a private donor. When he finally arrived in California, Mullaney witnessed his unpacking with expectation. There, in the University warehouse, he discovered that his mechanism was even more delicate and sophisticated of what I imagined. The machine not only survived: He spokeor something similar. He began to wonder what engineers could discover if they were carefully dismantled. Could, perhaps, replicate it? Does Lin’s thoughts unravel in 1947, when he believed that a typography could save his nation? A recovered story. The History of the mingkwai It is more than that of the rescue of an exotic and rare machine. If you want, it is even a metaphor of ideas that, without interlocutors, run the risk of disappear forever. Mullaney understood that it was possibly the last one who could understand what these machines represented: the linguistic dilemmas of a civilization, the technological aspirations of a nation then marginalized, or even the desperate elegance of a visionary inventor. The mingkwai was a device that No one wanted In his time, too advanced already too clumsy, the result of an idea too big for an era that still did not know how to translate it. But when finding it, complete and still capable of astonishing, the professor not only recovered a museum piece: he rescued from oblivion an entire chapter in the history of human writing. Image | StanfordCampbell, Brobough & Free, American Memory Digital Item Display In Xataka | In 1980, Apple made … Read more

Tesla promised a revolutionary robotaxi service. They have humans supervising and fans as the only clients

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On June 22 he will go to Tesla’s own history for being the first day in which the company has operated on the streets with its own robotaxi. He has done it, as there was no other, with strong restrictions, leaving some doubts in the environment and with a good handful of unfulfilled promises. This is all we know about the new service. June 22. “It is the culmination of a decade of hard work.” With these words he has referred Elon Musk in X To the first trips made by their robotaxis service, taking advantage of the publication to thank your team highlighting that “both the AI ​​and software chips equipment were created from scratch within Tesla.” The company has put in the streets of Austin the first trips of its robotaxis, the completely autonomous vehicle service that it intends to have full performance next year. At the moment, the service has given the departure gun between the expected Restrictions. Hard restrictions. Limited to Very specific spaces of the city of Austin, with a Tesla worker in the passenger seat to monitor the operation of the vehicle and with a chosen audience. This has been the First Tile Trips in Texana Cityfulfilling restrictions that their competitors have previously lived. Although travelers have confirmed that Tesla supervisors had not allowed to make any comments not to condition the user, the truth is that Tesla wanted to limit the risks in this launch, selecting very well who can use the service. Fans. It is undoubtedly the black point of the launch. In the deployment of these autonomous taxis, US regulations force them to function limitedly with a closed group. Waymo, in his day, opened the offer to his own workers And, once the favor of the regulators was won, he was able to open the general public with waiting lists and finally any user. In this case, Tesla has also had to close the circle of its potential clients but has done so by choosing fans of the company itself. A look by X demonstrates that those who have climbed into the car are workers from some Elon Musk company, company enthusiasts And some of them They presume to be Tesla investors. They do not comply. This careful selection of users has left us x full of messages propaganda Positive on service. However, there are two key premises that Elon Musk’s company has not fulfilled. They do not travel alone (1). The first is that cars work autonomously but maintain a supervisor in the passenger seat. It is true that during the Presentation of Tesla Cyberercabthe alleged robotaxi that should come into operation next year, Musk took care not to make reference to whether these first trips would be made with a human next. He did not do it because one thing is to talk about deadlines and not fulfill them and another thing is lie about regulations. And it is that all autonomous cars that have been put in the streets of the United States have had to go through this phase of human supervision. Tesla could not promise that the first steps would be given with a completely autonomous car for those focused on the presentation of what it will be (or should be) its service already stable. However, remember that In 2021when the completely autonomous car looked like a chimera, Elon Musk did promised that their cars could be used without human intervention. And that this would be possible in 2023. Something that, of course, has not happened. Flyers and pedals. The same story can be followed as to the “form” of these robotaxis. Almost a five years ago Elon Musk said that in 2023 we would drive a model 2 of less than $ 30,000 and that he could forget the steering wheel. The Tesla Cybercab presented with that same premise but, again, it was omitted what the service would be like and focused on what was to come. As now We count on Xatakaright now American regulators do not allow this type of cars to put on the market. It is something that ended with Cruise’s dream And one of the reasons is very simple: if the vehicle suffers some type of breakdown or disconnection and Emergency services have to move itThey need an alternative available. The steering wheel and pedals are still essential. The deadlines. Once the reality has hit the company and had to adapt to the regulations that mark the future of the autonomous car in the United States, it remains to be known if Elon Musk can fulfill deadlines that seem almost impossible. In statements that almost seemed a parody of itself, Elon Musk said during the presentation of Tesla Cybercab that it tends to be “unusual in the deadlines.” And, perhaps because of that, another impossible deadline was set. That their robotaxis will work in full performance “before 2027, allow it to say so” as conceived. That is, in 18 months Tesla should have an open service to the public on the street, which can charge for it, that reaches the entire city where it is in operation and that, in addition, it does so in an artifact without steering wheel or pedals. It would be to fulfill something that nobody has in the market. Not even Those who have been burning billions of dollars for years To support something similar. Photo | In Xataka | Tesla wants to approve her autonomous driving in Europe. He has chosen the most demential site to demonstrate it: Rome

In 1996, Bill Gates saw Microsoft’s dominance in a revolutionary technology

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The recent history of technology has left countless samples that, being a reference in any sector is a double -edged sword. On the one hand, it allows you to act from a position of domination of the market, but on the other it makes you Diana of all your competition. In 1996, Bill Gates, one of the most men influential and rich in the worldhe had a great concern about him advance of a new technology that took the dream: Java, a tool that, as Gates himself confessed in an email, threatened Microsoft’s dominance In the market. Bill Gates’s great fear was not Apple According to a conversation revealed by The X accountInternal Tech Emails, in September 1996, Gates admitted Nathan Myhrvold, then Microsoft technology director and Coinventor of more 800 patentswhich was “literally losing the dream” due to the impressive ability of Java. In his mail, Gates was worried about not finding a Strategy to protect Microsoft of The huge possibilities that offered this new technology. “It seems that people could make people make competitive operating systems,” wrote the millionaire. To deal with this threat, Myhrvold wanted to take some seriousness to the matter, and proposed A strategy based on “adopt and extend”. A winning plan, although controversial This tactic consisted of two main parts: first, Microsoft would announce its support for standardization and collaborate with other organizations to develop that technology among all. Then, in the “extend” phase, Microsoft would implement the Java standard, but would add exclusive and differentiated features For Microsoft users. This would create one competitive advantage for your company and would motivate users of other brands that only offered the “basic standard”, to change the products of the Gates company. Myhrvold’s strategy turned out to be very effective for Microsoft since it managed to consolidate the Windows leadership in the market, with functions that no other operating system offered. However, it was also considered abusive. The United States Department of Justice came to “adopt, extend and extinguish” In one of your opinionsdue to the negative impact on the competition that this strategy proposed by Myhrvold had. There is always a stalking risk That a millionaire like Gates ensure that a new risk makes him “lose sleep” is no exception. Much less in the technological field, where innovation Makes the highest towers fall and makes David more insignificant into an untouchable Goliath overnight. Ask Nokia Oa Deepseek. In fact, the fear that an enemy arises from nothing and ruin all work What your company has done is a recurring fear in the CEO of large companies called “CEO paranoia“ Jensen Huang, CEO of one of the world’s greatest technology, claims to be obsessed with making a mistake in your management and that your company is ruined. “I think that when you built a company from scratch, you have experienced real adversity and have been about to close several times, that feeling remains with you,” said Huang in a Interview at the New York Times Dealbook Summit. For its part, Peter Beck, founder and executive director of the aerospace company Rocket Labhe was also very concerned about the decisions he made at the forefront of a company that participates in the current space race. “I can’t imagine getting home and sleeping deeply every night; that is simply tangible,” assured Beck a CNBC. Jeff Bezos, after raising two empires from nowhere in two different sectors, also confessed that one of its main fears They were the garagesreferring precisely to Two students from a garage They could develop the next great technological idea that unbank their companies in the current domain position. In Xataka | In 1980, Bill Gates delivered 8.75% of Microsoft to sign his friend: today Steve Ballmer is richer than Gates Image | Flickr (Billionaires Success)

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

In 2024 Nicolas Cage, in 2025 Stephen King. The revolutionary horror cinema returns with a new epic of humor and gore

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Osgood Perkins is one of the most stimulating horror film directors of today (in addition, consecrated to gender: fans are lucky that it is not one of those creators who roll two impact films and then retire to more prestigious genres or profitable). And above, it is wonderfully prolific: last year, ‘Longlegs‘It became the cult film par excellence; This year, already in February, his ‘The Monkey’ is on his way to running the same fate. Oz Perkins likes fear. As is well known, Perkins is the son of an authentic horror cinema icon, Anthony Perkins, but with his good work he has been distanced from the titanic shadow of his father: before his international revelation with ‘Longlegs’, Perkins He already signed small but tremendously disturbing films, in which he showed an incredible hand for gender. As in his debut, the very sick ‘The envoy of evil‘, his personal vision of fairy tales with’Gretel and Hansel‘, And the modest but very intense’I am the beautiful creature that lives in this house‘For Netflix. ‘Longlegs’, a murky descent to madness. Descent, but as one descends rolling down the stairs to the darkest corner of a flooded medium basement. ‘Longlegs’ left Patidifuso to everyone in 2024 thanks to one of the most extreme papers of Nicolas Cage (which is already), but also because of the unexpected of their script turns and for the few concessions that this story gave this story this story of an FBI agent with some extrasensory capacity, and that is embarked in the search for a murderer who soon acquires absolutely inexplicable dyes. And now, Stephen King. Here is all of icons of the disheveled gesture and the insomnia nights. Stephen King, Nicolas Cage and now, Stephen King. Because his is the story that inspires Perkins’s new movie, ‘The Monkey’, which arrives at theaters this week. The original story is the variant of a code that King has used on countless occasions (‘the store’, ‘animal cemetery’), that of the monkey leg: do not want something very strong, because the desire can meet with the same force and with devastating consequences. But Perkins has brought the original story completely to its land. The desire monkey. The film starts when two twin brothers find among their father’s objects, whom they did not get to know, an old toy monkey with a drum. Soon a series of truculent deaths begin to happen in their surroundings, and that blame the monkey. The brothers decide to get rid of him and continue with their lives, although they end up distancing over the years. But suddenly the strange deaths take place again and the brothers must meet to end the power of the monkey. Laugh until he died. We said that Perkins had taken his own way when adapting the original story, and that path is that of humor. The deaths, absolutely free, unexpected and very bloody, are the most grotesque that have been seen on the screen from the saga ‘final destination’, with which ‘The Monkey’ has more than one point in common. Blood acrobatics, creative gore and a feverish rhythm of demential deaths mark the rhythm of a hilarious film and that definitely consecrates Osgood Perkins as one of the greats of modern terror. In Xataka | About the new ‘Wolf Man’ weighs more than a curse: the shadow of the failed mcu of monsters that wanted to build universal

He has reinvented it from scratch and that is the revolutionary

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With R1Deepseek has achieved something that seemed impossible: to train an AI model with reasoning capabilities comparable to those of OpenAi … but without depending on huge data sets labeled. Its approach based on reinforcement learning opens the door for many more groups developing advanced. Why is it important. This advance changes the rules we assumed in the development of AI. Until now, creating models with reasoning capacity required huge amounts of data labeled and computational resources only within reach of giants such as OpenAi, goal or Google. Deepseek has shown that there are A much more efficient alternative path. Between bambalins. The Deepseek R1 training process is divided into two main phases: First, R1-Zero Learn to reason exclusively through reinforcement learning, exploring solutions by test and error. Then, R1 refine these capacities with a small amount of “cold start” data to improve aspects such as readability. The model uses An expert mixing architecture (MOE) with 671,000 million total parameters, but only activates 37,000 million per consultation. This is what allows you to obtain a performance comparable to that of OPENAI O1 with a fraction of computational resources. The contrast. While Openai invests hundreds of millions in labeled data and computing, Deepseek has achieved similar results with less than 6 million dollars (declared investment). Its smaller distilled models, from 1.5 billion to 70,000 million parameters, have also achieved surprising performance. The example. It is a silly example, but that is precisely why we wanted to verify its way of reasoning to the type of question you dislodge. We asked him the question “If Xataka was a Spanish football team, what would it be?” Image: Xataka with Mockuuuups Studio His very long answer was autaeafirmo and then discarding the conclusion again and again. First he just described Xataka and to make a superficial review of the main Spanish clubs. Then it was raised if we would be Athletic, but understood that although its policy of “only Basque players” is unique, that is not comparable to Xataka’s innovation. He did something similar with Valencia, Barça and Rayo arguing different causes to rule them out. He linked Real Madrid for us, Ahem, social mass leadership … but agreed that this is not linked to innovation. He went through Eibar and Getafe, discarding both … but then returned to Eibar since “fell” in which they use analytics and technology. In the end he ruled it for being a small club. He commented that Xataka’s leadership fits with an offensive style such as Barça de Guardiola or the Madrid’s Madrid counterattack … … And finally he reached Villarreal and Girona. After some reasoning, he stayed with Girona, arguing his strong culture of data, his innovative approach, his recent growth and his global vision (he is part of the City Football Group), in addition to adding something striking: “Both combine limited resources with intelligence Strategic: Girona maximizes its template with Scouting Advanced, while Xataka optimizes relevant and accessible content for a mass audience. “ His final conclusion was “the Girona FC embodies the essence of Xataka: modernity, technological adaptation and a fresh narrative that challenges the status quo“. 🚀⚽ Reading all your reasoning was spectacular. Turning point. This development anticipates entry into a new era where Innovation in AI will not depend exclusively on access to large resourcesas it has been happening so far. The learning techniques for reinforcement and distillation of models can level the pitch between large companies (or startups with investments of nine zeros) and much smaller equipment. Deepen. This advance goes beyond simple incremental improvements. Deepseek has shown that it is possible to build models that reason autonomously without having to show them thousands and thousands of examples. Reinforcement learning allows the model to discover effective reasoning strategies, similar to how humans learn to solve problems. In Xataka | I have tried Deepseek on the web and in my Mac. Chatgpt, Claude and Gemini have a problem Outstanding image | Xataka with Mockuuuups Studio

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