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the spectacular technology that finally turns fencing into a spectacle

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The tip of a foil in a professional fencing competition moves faster than the human eye can follow, and that limitation has condemned the sport to a secondary role in broadcasts for decades. A Japanese studio has been working since 2012 on an answer that combines 4K cameras, deep learning and augmented reality. This April 25, it debuts in its first professional competition, in Los Angeles. It’s difficult to follow. Fencing has rules like right of way in foil and saber, used to determine who wins the point when both fencers touch the opponent’s body at the same time, forcing the spectator to follow movements of the weapon in fractions of a second. According to the Rhizomatiks official technical documentationthe tip of the weapon takes up just a few pixels even captured in 4K, and the blade deforms so much when flexing that classic image processing methods cannot follow it clearly. How it works. This visualization system is called Fencing Visualized and is born from an alliance between the Japanese studio Rhizomatiksdirected by Daito Manabe (known for collaborations with Björk, Perfume and the closing ceremony of Rio 2016), the agency Dentsu Lab Tokyo and the fencer Yuki Ota, the first Japanese Olympic medalist in the discipline. The idea germinated from previous work with dancers in which the team used motion capture and high-speed cameras to draw graphics on the bodies on stage. The official phase began in 2013 and the concept already appeared in Tokyo’s bid video for the 2020 Games. Early versions of the system depended on retroreflective markers attached to the weapon: In 2014 it was tested live during the Yuki Ota Cup and in 2017 the balls were replaced with reflective tapes so as not to hinder the shooter. From reflective markers to deep learning. The technical leap has come now, when the team has worked to introduce the system in official competitions without interfering with the athletes’ competition equipment, mainly weapons. Therefore, in 2016 they rewrote motion detection with the help of deep learning. According to the engineer Kye Shimizuthe solution is a multistage network based on YOLO v3, fed by 24 4K cameras on both sides of the track, and whose results are crossed to estimate the position of the tip. This new version without physical markers debuted as an exhibition at the 71st Japan National Championships in 2018 and was seen in official competition a year later. The next milestone was Tokyo 2020, where the technology was deployed on site during the Games. That time at the Olympic Games is, in fact, what has allowed it to be sold to other competitions. Money. The American premiere on April 25 responds to a commercial logic adopted by the World Fencing League (WFL) that organizes the event, a professional league founded at the end of 2025 by three-time Olympian Miles Chamley-Watson. The competition brings together twelve athletes in mixed teams with a total distribution of $100,000 in prizes. The WFL itself describes the installation as a system of blade tracking with AI intended to make new viewers understand the action instantly. In other words: the league is interested in ensuring that, as a television show for all audiences, each round is understood intuitively, without knowing the regulations. More visions of the future. Fencing Visualized It is not an isolated case: There are systems like Hawk-Eye in tennis and cricket, Second Spectrum as the official optical tracking provider for the NBA and Premier League, or semi-automated offside in football. But the tiny tip of a saber is a more demanding problem than tracking a ball. On the other hand, this vision of the future also fits into the trend that the IOC has been promoting for years with Alibaba Cloud and Intel, and which turned Paris 2024 into the first end-to-end 8K broadcast with multi-camera 3D replay. The Los Angeles 2028 Games are a good space for this system to be integrated into the audiovisual dissemination of this sport. In Xataka | We have been living with robots for years that beat us at chess. Now we have robots that beat us at tennis

The entire ocean floor of the Earth, in a spectacular 3D interactive map that reveals 50,000 unknown underwater mountains

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Although we are already looking other planets in the universe (especially interesting are the potentially habitable ones), the reality is that the old Earth still has a few hidden secrets left. Without going any further, the seabed continues to delight us with new species at this point in the film. NASA knows this and that is why in December 2022 it launched a satellite into space with a mission: to achieve topography of surface waters and oceans. Hence its name, SWOT. Already the first year managed to map the ocean floor in more detail than in the last 30 years and is now available in full. It is, in short, the most detailed marine gravity map in history. What he has “seen” is not just the ground, but subtle variations in the height of the sea surface. These variations reveal the existence of thousands of underwater mountains, trenches and faults, invisible to conventional satellites. To prepare this map, NASA has used state-of-the-art phase coherence interferometry, which has made it possible to measure the two-dimensional height of sea level with high precision. Historically, sonar has been used to measure the seabed, but we have only managed to map less than 30% (with the Seabed 2030 project) with this technique. On the other hand, standard satellites offered a resolution well below the achieved spatial resolution, close to 8 kilometers. This exhaustive map of the ocean floor goes beyond satisfying geographical curiosity, the impact of this cartography It is evident in: Biodiversity. Underwater mountains are oases of life and knowing where they are is essential. Safety in navigation, allowing the identification of underwater peaks that may constitute a risk for vessels. Climate change. These types of structures are directly related to ocean currents, responsible for transporting heat. If we do not know the relief, we cannot predict how the sea will warm. The map of the seabed with a level of detail never seen before With this vertical gravitational gradient map, NASA has developed a 3D model through which you can move and zoom through all the depths of the seas and oceans of the Earth. Individual abyssal hills measuring 200 – 300 kilometers in length can be seen along with other small seamounts and tectonic structures, previously hidden. In fact, abyssal hills are the most common landform underwater (in the southern Indian Ocean they can be seen, for example). NASA explains that they are formed by normal faults along the axes of the oceanic ridges. From them, plate reconstruction studies are being carried out. Also in the visualization you can see seamounts located west of Central America, which are actually underwater volcanoes formed by magmatic intrusions through the oceanic crust. Their importance is crucial as they modify ocean circulation, influence the distribution of nutrients and constitute key points of biodiversity. The high-resolution mapping reveals some 50,000 previously unknown seamounts approximately one kilometer high. Tap to go to NASA’s 3D model of the seafloor. Via: NASA/JPL The topography of surface waters and oceans from SWOT also shows great clarity in the continental margins, highlighting the high latitude areas, with tectonic structures buried under sediments and ice. Thus, it allows observing submarine canyons that transport sediment from the mainland to the deep sea along the South American continental shelf, as well as ancient mid-ocean ridges hidden under the ice in the Weddell Sea. In Xataka | Astronomers have stitched together 10,000 images from the Webb telescope to make the largest map of the universe. Something doesn’t fit In Xataka | This is the impressive interactive map to see the Earth in 4K live from space and monitor satellites Cover | POT

The dramatic retreat of a glacier in the Arctic has just revealed a spectacular “graveyard” of prehistoric whales

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The Arctic is is melting at a dizzying rateas we have repeated on many occasions, and in doing so, it is giving us back time capsules that had been under the ice for millennia. The last of these findings seems to be taken from a fiction novel, since it has revealed an authentic prehistoric cemetery of whales that has come to light after the fracture of a glacier in less than two decades. How it looked. This is where the expedition of the Arctic and Antarctic Institute of Russia (AARI) intervenes, which had as its original objective the study of permafrost in the region. However, upon arriving at the area, the researchers found a big surprise. As detailed by the researcher himself Nikita Demidov, satellite images and measurements on site confirmed that a large local glacier had split dramatically in a period of less than 20 years. And this fracture exposed a marine terrace hidden under the ice, revealing an unusual concentration of whale skeletons. And the best thing is that, thanks to being buried under the ice, have been preserved in an exceptional way. What were they doing there? In reality, the presence of this “cemetery” is not a coincidence, but experts point out that these remains are the key to understanding extreme paleographic events. Specifically, they indicate the existence of very rapid changes in sea level that occurred thousands of years ago. And the truth is that behind this there is a large amount of bibliography. A study published in 1995 already analyzed the postglacial emergence in the western area of ​​Franz Josef Land, using radiocarbon dating dating back to 10,400 years ago. The warm-up. The rapid decline observed by Demidov fits perfectly with recent scientific literature, since a study published this same 2025 in it Journal of Glaciology on the balance of glacier masses in the archipelago between 1991 and 2022 empirically confirms the acceleration of melting linked to climate change. You have to wait. Despite the spectacular nature of the images and the dissemination of the news through the Russian Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment, the scientific community calls for caution. Currently, the origin of the data is an institutional statement from AARI itself and if we search scientific databases, there is no academic article that has been reviewed that specifically details this finding. And the next step for Demidov and his team will be to analyze the remains in the laboratory, date the bones precisely and publish their conclusions so that the international scientific community can evaluate them. Until then, the whale cemetery on Wilczek Island remains a monumental and silent witness to the abrupt changes of the Earth; both those that occurred millennia ago, and those that we are causing today. Images | Pascale Amez In Xataka | In the remote Svalbard archipelago there is something that confuses and fascinates scientists in equal measure: a glacier that “beats”

MG, Omoda and BYD close a spectacular 2025 and are among the best sellers

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It was the last days of March 2023 when we traveled to the north of Madrid to attend the BYD launch. “Europe has had its eyes closed for a long time”they told us from the company. That felt like the arrival of the first Chinese brand to our country, the one that came to confront Tesla in the electric car. At that time, MG was already selling thousands of units in our country and there were minority alternatives but the arrival of a manufacturer that was approaching two million cars sold It was already more serious. Months later Chery would arrivewith Omoda and Jaecoo, but also Ebrounder the arm. Along the way, other minority brands such as Lynk&Co or Xpeng have also been bringing new models to the market. But the bulk of Chinese sales and impact in our country is concentrated in the three companies we have listed. MG is completely established in our country, BYD has completed its second full year (with a change of direction included) and Omoda, Jaecoo and Ebro have now established their offer. And the result has been very good for them. More models and more sales If the year of Chinese brands in Spain has been characterized by something, it is because have put more points of sale on the streetmore cars in those points of sale and, above all, more cars in the garages of your potential customers. At the end of 2025, in Spain the main Chinese brands have obtained the following results: MG: 45,163 units (growth of 46.78%) BYD: 25,556 units (growth of 373.87%) Omoda: 13,963 units (growth of 79.33%) Jaecoo: 9,728 units (growth of 785.17%) Ebro: 12,459 units (growth of 44396.43%, they only had one car available at the end of 2024) Are very striking data due to several factors: MG sold more cars in Spain than Citroën (34,286 units), with which it competes on price. And it sold more cars than classics like Ford (29,065 units), Nissan (34,711 units), Opel (26,549) or Skoda (42,387 units). BYD only sells plug-in hybrid and electric cars so its potential customer market is much smaller Omoda, Jaecoo and Ebro are three brands of the Chery Group but each of them competes with three or four cars that, in addition, can be stepped on in price but not in positioning. If the sales of the Chery Group are added, they exceed 35,000 units. Brand by brand If we focus on the approach of each of these companies, we must take into account that MG already has a wide range of vehicles but is managing to attract customers in one of the most complicated markets: that of the cheapest cars on the market. Almost half of the sales of the best positioned one are accumulated by the MG ZS, one of the most affordable options on the market that for just over 20,000 euros delivers the ECO sticker so sought after in a Spain with growing low-emission zones. This has been the first year with its hybrid version working at full capacity and that has been noticed. The same has happened with the MG3which accumulates more than 9,000 units and is its second best-selling car. He good result The MG ZS among hybrids can be seen on the list of best sellers. And, of the non-plug-in hybrids, the Chinese SUV is in seventh position, surpassed by a Peugeot 2008 that has accumulated just five more registrations and in a field where Toyota clearly dominates (three of the four best-selling cars in this segment are its). MG’s third big best-seller is a good example of where the strength of Chinese brands lies. The MG EHS is a plug-in hybrid that, again, conquers by price. It has managed to become the second best-selling plug-in hybrid of the year, surpassing a Toyota C-HR that could be the great favorite. But no one is offering as much size and equipment at a lower price among plug-ins than the Chinese brands. That’s why the BYD Seal U has been the best-selling plug-in hybrid. As we said in our testcosts the same as the Toyota C-HR powered by this technology but for a family it can be much more interesting. The BYD SUV is not the only Chinese one that sneaks into the plug-in hybrid. The Jaecoo 7 also has its market share, a model that has also focused on offering extensive equipment at a reasonable price, which has allowed it to position itself as the sixth best-selling vehicle of this type in our country. The appearance of all of them and the Omoda 9 and the Ebro S700 among the best sellers of December, it gives us a preview of 2026 where everything indicates that The plug-in hybrid is the other great asset of Chinese models for next year (after the entry range). In that low range, the Chery group has already begun to make room for itself with the Omoda 5 but hopes to hit the table with its hybrid version. The car not only has an ECO label, The SHS-H version is a hybrid with all the letters and a particular touch. Attractive price, a design that is being liked and extensive equipment are its great assets for next year. And if we look at BYD, the result can also be underlined as excellent. Surviving with electric cars exclusively was becoming difficult to grow quickly and they have put all their efforts into action. They tested the BYD Seal U DM-i and found that they have a gap among plug-in hybrids. Maybe your Signal 6 DM-ias a family sedan, has it more complicated but the BYD Atto 2 DM-i It is priced to be the most attractive option on the market right now. Despite everything, the company is the first of the mortals after Tesla. Elon Musk’s people continue to dominate the electric market in our country with an iron fist, where the autonomy/price ratio continues to outweigh the rest of the values. Of course, the … Read more

Reopening nuclear power plants sounds very spectacular, but Google has a plan B in case it’s not enough: solar energy

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Data centers for are insatiable monsters those who are responsible for them must feed. OpenAI, Meta, Microsoft, xAI, Anthropic and Google are burning money riding colossal data centers for training and management of artificial intelligence. But these installations are not expensive to set up: they are also expensive to maintain. They require a considerable amount of energy to functionand Google has just received a ‘shot’ of renewables. All thanks to a direct connection to the largest system in the United States. Renewables to power AI. Google and TotalEnergies have just signed a agreement of energy purchases for 15 years. The contract stipulates that the energy company will deliver 1.5 TWh of electricity from its Montpelier solar plant, in Ohio, to Google. The plant is still under construction and they estimate that it will have a capacity of 49 MW, but the most important thing is that it will be connected directly to the electricity system. PJM. It is the largest network operator in the United States. It covers 13 states and data centers are representing a relevant portion of the operator’s pie: in its last annual auction, the load of these facilities PJM capacity sale triggered at 7.3 billion dollars, 82% more. Astronomical needs. In the statement from TotalEnergies, the company that this agreement illustrates its ability to meet the growing energy demands of the major technology companies. The problem is that it is not enough. If we focus on Google, the consumption of its data centers was 30.8 million megawatt hours of electricity. The company has been focused on AI for years, but the recent ‘boom’ has made it double what its centers consumed in 2020 (14.4 million MWh). Currently, data centers are estimated to account for 95.8% of Google’s total electricity budget. But it’s not just Google: the International Energy Agency esteem that global data centers consumed 415 TWh last year, representing approximately 1.5% of global electricity consumption. It seems little put in percentage, but Spain consumed in 2024 231,808 GWh, or 231 TWh, in 2024. The data centers of a handful of companies alone consumed twice as much as an entire country. And the estimate is that this data center consumption will double by 2030, reaching 945 TWh. Renewables are not enough. Now, although renewables are a support for the total energy required by data centerssolar and wind power have two limitations: intermittency and variability. Generation depends on weather conditions and time of day, meaning it fluctuates dramatically even throughout the same day. This instability clashes head-on with the high reliability and availability requirements of data centers. These are installations that must operate continuously and cannot assume cuts or Unforeseeable drops in supplysince AI or cloud storage would suffer the consequences. These renewables require backup batteries, but it is complicated and expensive to have such a large number of batteries just to power data centers. Pulling the gas and looking at the nuclear. That’s where other sources come into play. On the one hand, nuclear. In October 2024, Google signed the world’s first corporate agreement to acquire nuclear energy from SMR reactors. The first will come into operation in 230 and it is expected that, together, they will be able to satisfy the technology company with 500 MW of capacity by 2035. On the other hand, natural gas. In October of this year, the Broadwing Energy Center project began, a new natural gas power plant that will have a capacity of 400 MW and is scheduled to come into play at the end of 2029. Decarbonization and pressure. And the big question is… doesn’t the use of gas for AI clash with the technology companies’ objectives of achieving decarbonization percentages for both 2030 and 2050? We have already seen that oil companies have been getting off the renewables bandwagon because they have seen that fossil fuels are still relevant in the technology industry, but in the case of Google, they rely on the fact that projects like the Broadwing Energy Center They will have CCS systems. This means that it will have carbon capture system that will be able to permanently “sequester” 90% of the emissions. It means burying the problem, literally, since the CO₂ will be stored a mile underground. In 2020, before the AI ​​boom, the company established the goal of operating with carbon-free energy 24 hours a day, seven days a week by 2030. It will be interesting to see how they plan to offset these emissions thanks to renewables, but the IAE estimates that the demand for data centers will not stop growing in the short term and that adds another problem: a increased pressure on the electrical grid which is added as another element to manage. Because the big underlying problem is that the demand for energy is growing at a faster rate than the capacity to generate new electricity, and it is something that has an impact on companies’ bills, but also in homes. Images | Unsplash, Google Data Center In Xataka | China does not have a spending problem with AI. What it has is a huge income gap compared to its main rival

Galapagos tomatoes are ‘evolving in reverse’. And that is spectacular news.

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The Galapagos Islands They are the living laboratory of evolution. It was there that Charles Darwin observed the differences in finches that cemented his famous theory of natural selection and that laid new foundations for the evolution of the human species. Now, almost 200 years later, these islands are back in the news, but for a surprising reason: a species of wild tomato seems to be turning the evolutionary clock. But the most important thing of all is that this involution in vegetation opens the door for us to understand how small changes can give us a wide range of possibilities in human pharmacology. The discovery. A new study published in Nature Communications has discovered that, while evolution followed its “normal” course on the oldest islands of the archipelago, the tomatoes on the younger, more hostile islands have “devolved.” And they are actively recovering a chemical trait that their ancestors lost millions of years ago, something that doesn’t seem too logical. And it is not logical because we all have in mind that changes are always for the better to adapt to a specific environment. But these plants are giving us a completely different perspective than what Darwin saidalthough it has important applications especially in pharmacology. A chemical twist. The study of ‘involution’ focuses on the steroidal alkaloids (SGAs), powerful compounds that plants of the Solanaceae family (such as tomatoes, potatoes and eggplants) use as a natural defense. These compounds have a key characteristic: chirality. This means that a molecule can exist in two forms which are mirror images each other, as if it were our left and right hand, or even a reflection of ourselves in a mirror. The two ways are the following: The modern “tomato type”: mainly produces the 25S isomer. The ancestral “eggplant type”: produces the 25R isomer. In this way, the study is seeing that although years ago it was normal to produce 25R, it was later changed to producing 25S. Now, evolution is taking off again to return to the most ancient. Behind this is an enzyme called GAME8 that has dictated what type of chemical defense each plant produces. In fact, the researchers showed that by modifying just eight amino acids of the tomato GAME8 enzyme, they could stop it from producing its 25S compound and make exclusively the ancestral 25R. It is literally an evolutionary switch. Evolution in ‘reverse’. This is where the plot thickens. The researchers analyzed the Solanum cheesmaniaea wild tomato endemic to the Galapagos. And what they found challenges the idea of ​​linear evolution: On older islands, such as St. Kitts, tomatoes almost exclusively produce the ‘modern’ 25S isomer. On more modern islands like Isabela, tomatoes have changed and accumulate high levels of the ‘ancestral’ 25R isomer. It’s not that these plants were “left behind.” The data suggest that their immediate ancestors produced 25S, but the unique environmental pressures of younger islands have favored mutations in their enzyme. GAME8 that they have made it return to produce the ancestral compound 25R. It is a clear case of reverse evolution. Because. Younger islands are more arid and hostile environments, and science suggests that this ‘ancient’ chemical cocktail could offer better protection against pathogens or herbivores specific to that inhospitable environment, or even help the plant in different soil conditions. The important thing. Beyond being a botanical curiosity, chirality is a fundamental concept in pharmacy. One isomer of a drug may be therapeutic, while its mirror ‘twin’ may be harmless or, in infamous cases such as thalidomide, tragically toxic. Understanding how nature has managed to make a single enzyme (GAME8) change its product from 25S to 25R through a few mutations is a great advance for biotechnology. We could, in theory, use this knowledge to engineer crops with specific alkaloid profiles, creating more resistant plants or, conversely, eliminating anti-nutritional compounds. Images | Airplane CP In Xataka | The skull that changes everything: a million-year-old fossil suggests that ‘Homo sapiens’ did not come from Africa

Taking spectacular photographs of the Perseids seems impossible. NASA has a guide to demonstrate otherwise

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The Perseids are already here and, although there are still a few days to reach their peak of activity, it is convenient to keep in mind some clues and tricks if our intention is to capture them in a photograph. Because as more than one will have proven, this is not always easy. AND Who better than NASA to point to any of these tricks. The first step: plan. If we want to get a good image of this rain of stars, the first thing is to think where and when. The Perseids or Tears of San Lorenzo can be seen for several weeks of summer, approximately between June 17 and August 24, and reach their peak of activity around August 11 and 12. Where and when it is also important when it comes to circumventing the great enemy of astrophotography: light pollution. First, it is convenient Avoid full moon And the phases in which it reflects the most light, since, although we do not perceive this light, it reduces the contrast that our eyes require to see the fleeting stars. It is also important flee from light pollution that generate the lights of cities and other settlements, so perhaps we should plan a trip to the field if we want to see these stars. Finally, we must also know where to look. Perseids owe their name that seem to radiate The constellation of Perseus. Knowing how to locating this constellation in the sky is very useful when restricting the angle to which to aim the objectives of our cameras and increase the probability of capturing some of these flashes. Second step: the team. A tripod can be helpful. Photography will require a long exposure. Maybe they are just a few seconds, but our pulse or any other involuntary movement could spoil a perfect shot. If we do not have a tripod we may resort to a “homemade” solution, such as supporting our camera on some rocks, but that will subtract maneuvering capacity. It can also be useful pertrech In order not to have the chamber trigger and thus avoid additional vibrations, but we can also dodge this requirement with the camera timer. Regarding the lens, NASA’s recommendation is in angular. Since we do not know when and where the next flash will happen, it will be best to cover a lot to increase our chances of success. Third step: Prepare. Once in position, we can start looking The constellation of Perseus. Orient our camera towards it will increase the chances of capturing the flashes of this rain of stars. The approach, best manual. The reason is that cameras self -effect systems can be lost in night darkness. Since we will not have to change the focal point, this does not imply any problem once we have taken the ideal approach. We will have, of course, to walk with an eye: sometimes focusing on infinity is not the best option, so it is a good idea to try small adjustments until you find the ideal approach. There is still a detail. We had said that capturing a rain of stars requires long exhibitions. Calculate how long can also require adjustments, but NASA also has a trick to facilitate work: Rule 500. It is about dividing 500 by the focal distance of the lens, and using the figure as time, in seconds, that our open shutter will remain. This value represents the maximum time that we can maintain the exposure before the terrestrial rotation makes the background stars begin to spread. If we have a 20 mm lens, we will have that 500/20 = 25 seconds of maximum. Experiment, enjoy. Rule 500 can be a good start, but we will still have to adjust our ISO and opening values, which will also allow us to play with shorter exhibitions. We can make small changes and verify how each one affects the quality of the image or its aesthetics. He last advice that NASA It has for those who are encouraged to photograph the persistes (or any other rain of stars) is simple: enjoy. These astronomical events offer us an opportunity to see the night sky in a different way, in advance generated by the unexpected flashes that cross the night sky on some summer nights. In Xataka | What are they and how exactly the Perseids are formed, the most fascinating astronomical phenomenon that we can see today Image | Fatih Turan

One Piece and Lego® join their paths with spectacular sets: they are already available

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LEGO® has sets for all tastes. The Danish brand is gradually adding news to its catalog, but few usually make as much noise and the one that has released today, July 1. We refer to the new One Piece setsone of the best known sleeves and anime that, in this case, are based on the live action that can be seen in Netflix. It is a great opportunity for Luffy and Company lovers, since they can now enjoy both riding and exhibiting these sets at home. Are the following: LEGO® Going Merrythe well -known and dear pirate ship of Luffy’s crew, by 129.99 euros. LEGO® Cabaña del Pueblo Molinoa smaller set that includes Luffy and Shanks, for 29.99 euros. LEGO® Buggy Circus Tent the clownwith this character as maximum protagonist, for 49.99 euros. LEGO® Battle in Arlong Parkone of the most important clashes of the principle of Luffy’s adventure, by 79.99 euros. LEGO® Baratie floating restaurantthe biggest set of this collaboration with One Piece, for 299.99 euros. Lego® Going Merry The first set we have in hand is the Going Merry, a pirate ship that does not lack detail, since it includes even the kitchen. Includes minifigures of several characters and four posters of ‘are sought’ among which are Buggy, Mihawk or Luffy himself. It comes out by 129.99 euros. * Some price may have changed from the last review LEGO® Cabaña del Pueblo Molino The most economical set of this collaboration is with this cabin of Pueblo Molino, the village from which Luffy’s adventure starts. Despite being small, it is composed of 299 pieces, it also includes several minifigures (including Shanks) and a ‘Search’ poster. Costs 29.99 euros. Cabaña del Pueblo Molino * Some price may have changed from the last review LEGO® Buggy Circus Tent the clown We have a very funny set with this buggy tent, one of the first enemies facing Luffy. In it there are three gadgets of which the protagonists of this adventure will have to escape. 573 pieces make up and leave for 49.99 euros. Buggy Circus Tent the clown * Some price may have changed from the last review LEGO® Battle in Arlong Park This set is starring the pagoda where Luffy and Arlong fight, a fight that fans of this eiichiro manga ode we remember with love. Luffy’s arms can be stretched and, of course, we can destroy the page as in combat. Costs 79.99 euros. * Some price may have changed from the last review LEGO® Baratie floating restaurant We close with the biggest set that includes this collaboration of One Piece. This is the Baratie, the restaurant ship where Sanji appears for the first time. It includes 10 different minifigures and is loaded with details thanks to the more than 3,400 pieces it includes. Costs 299.99 euros. Baratie floating restaurant * Some price may have changed from the last review Some of the links of this article are affiliated and can report a benefit to Xataka. In case of non -availability, offers may vary. Images | LEGO® In Xataka | Your favorite series, comics and movies also in Lego: 15 ideal construction kits to mount yourself or give away In Xataka | Lego constructions to another level: the Technic series has the models with which any collector would dream

A folding mobile at outlet price. This is the new and spectacular offer in the honor Magic V2

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More and more folding mobiles that come out with a more affordable official price, although obviously we continue to find models with prices that even exceed the a whopping of the 2,000 euros. Here, in this field, honor is a very interesting brand and, although its folding mobiles are usually expensive, from time to time we find them very cheap. Right now, the perfect example is found in the Magic V2 Honora mobile that has dropped from its official price of 1,999 euros to the 819 euros. We will find it at this price in PowerPlanet during your campaign Power Days. If you prefer in another color, it is also in black by others 819 euros. * Some price may have changed from the last review A half -price folding mobile He Magic V2 Honor It is a very particular mobile, since it has one of the thinnest designs we have seen in folding mobiles. Regarding their screens, we find a External panel of 6.43 inches which offers a FullHD+resolution, refresh rate of 1 to 120 Hz and compatibility with HDR10+. We also find a 7.92 inches folding screen with 120 Hz refreshment and HDR10+compatibility. And if we talk about its power, the Magic V2 honor mounts the processor Snapdragon 8 Gen 2. It is not the most powerful, but it does offer excellent performance in virtually any scenario of use. To this we must add that, in this case, with 16 GB of RAM and 512 GB of internal storage. Regarding the cameras, the folding mobile of honor comes with Two front cameras (an internal and another 16 MP), while we find a 50 MP main sensor, a large angle of 50 MP and a 20 MP telephoto. You may also interest you Xiaomi Mix Flip – 12+512GB smartphone, Leica Summilux, Snapdragon 8 Gen 3, 4.01 “outdoor screen of 6.86” ​​120Hz, Hypercharge 67W, charger included, black (ES version) * Some price may have changed from the last review Samsung Galaxy Z fold6 256 GB + Loader – Mobile phone with AI, Free Android Smartphone, 50 MP camera, large screen, long -term battery, dark blue (Spanish version) * Some price may have changed from the last review Some of the links of this article are affiliated and can report a benefit to Xataka. In case of non -availability, offers may vary. Images | Ricardo AguilarHonor In Xataka | The best mobiles (2025), we have tried them and here are their analysis In Xataka | The best price quality price (2025). Your analysis and videos are here

Replacing workers with AI sounded spectacular. There are already companies backward

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That an AI takes away our work is A fear That is being realized. More and more companies that bet on replacing human employees with automated processes with AI. At the same time, the potential that the AI agents It seems almost unlimited. The reality is much more complex and there are already some companies that have had to give reverse in their plans. Yes, but to supervise her humans. There are many companies that have begun to draw a plan to replace their employees with AI, especially in the sector of the customer service. However, according to a survey of Gartner, 50% of companies are abandoning this path due to the challenges that the transition to a service managed only by AI is assuming. 95% of the executives surveyed claimed that they would bet on a hybrid approach combining AI and Human agents. In the words of Kathy Ross, director of the Gartner customer service: “IA offers significant potential to transform customer service, but it is not the panacea. The human touch remains irreplaceable in many interactions.” The Klarna case. Perhaps the most popular case of a company that has regretted betting on the AI ​​is that of Klarna. In February 2024, his CEO presumed that an AI was doing the work of the 700 employees who had just fired and also assured that he was receiving the same score from the clients. A year later, the quality of service offered by AI received many criticisms and had to back to hire human labor Ensure that customers can always talk to a human agent. Not so quickly. Although currently the agents of AI are not so reliable As Altman promisedit does not guarantee that they will not improve in the future. In addition, there are cases of other companies to replace humans for AI has gone well. Like the CEO of this Indian startup that He fired 90% of the template And a year later he states that it has been A success. And it is not the only one. Duolingo, for example, fired 10% of its translators to replace them with an AI. Other large companies such as UPS and Cisco They have followed similar paths. The case of IBM It is particular, since, although it has opted for AI, it has also had to hire more workers precisely to manage that AI. IA agents. With the generative AI in decelerationsince the end of last year there is another concept that has gained relevance, that of the AI agents. While chatbots can only attend one request at the same time, an AI agent is able to perform more complex tasks. For example, you could organize the holidays only to mention the dates and destiny. The promise of autonomy, the ability to handle several tasks at the same time and make decisions make the AI ​​agents A threat to many jobs. Unreliable. We can all make mistakes and in this it seems that AI agents are very human. The problem is that if an AF agent makes an error, he continues to repeat in successive tasks, making the error increasing And the final result is also wrong. We have also seen other uses of AI tools at work that have not fully went well, such as disastrous work interviews conducted with AI. A revealing experiment. A experiment carried out by researchers from the Carnegie Mellon University He suggested that they are still very green. They created a fictitious software company whose employees were AI agents. They used Google, OpenAi, Anthropic and Meta models, to which they assigned roles such as finance, administration or software engineering. The result was disastrous: they only managed to complete 24% of the tasks assigned to them. AI and labor market. The impact of AI on the labor market is undeniable. According to the last World Economic Forum Reportit is expected that by 2030 92 million jobs will be destroyed due to AI automation. But there is another face of the currency. At the same time, they will be created 170 million new positions And the AI ​​will be one of the job creation engines, something we have already seen with Salesforce’s case. Cover image | Pixabay In Xataka | The workers have stopped fear of AI as a machine to destroy jobs: software engineers do not think the same

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