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Mercadona and the rest of the supermarkets spend tons of paper on receipts that no one reads. Now they want to change it

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You go to the supermarket, you buy a couple of things (just enough for dinner), you go to the checkout, they give you the ticket, you put it in your pocket and you leave with the bag in the direction of the parking lot. Pure routine. Our daily bread. If the employer’s retail achieves its objective, there is one element of that scene, however, that will change radically. Which? That ticket that you will end up throwing away without even reading it. What has happened? Every year supermarkets print millions and millions of strips of paper in which in many cases only a handful of articles appear, so they end up in the garbage can without anyone having even looked at them. It is a waste, a waste of resources. For chains like Dia, Lidl or Mercadona, but also for the environment. So Asedas (Spanish Association of Distributors, Self-Service and Supermarkets) has had an idea: they want us to start printing receipts only when the customer requests it. What do they want? The news I advanced it on thursday theEconomist. Asedas has proposed to the Government that it slightly tweak the regulations that regulate tickets so that they are no longer printed systematically. That does not mean that they are no longer issued or that the customer no longer has a receipt that clarifies what they have purchased and how much they have been charged. The change would focus on support. The idea, clarifies Ignacio García, head of Asedas, is “that the ticket continues to be generated electronically for control purposes, but that it is printed on paper at the consumer’s request.” That is, the user can request the physical or digital ticket. Right now, remember theEconomistthe regulations provide that supers deliver the receipt in two ways: either in paper or digital format. What’s happening? Since not all clients are in favor of handing over their data (including email) to the chains, in the end they have no choice but to print it. Not only that. The employer’s data They show that many of the times we go to the supermarket we buy only a handful of items, so the receipts show small transactions, for low amounts that we do not even review. Result: those papers end up in the trash as they are printed. It is not even strange for the customer to reject them when the cashier offers them to them. Is it that serious? “Our companies have been confirming for years that, in about a third of operations, the ticket is abandoned at the checkout line,” confirm Garcia. It is not surprising if we take into account the data on the shopping basket managed by Asedas. According to their estimates, 30% of the operations registered in supermarkets respond to almost urgent visits, during which we take home at most four products and spend less than 10 euros. In 60% of cases, purchases involve between five and 25 products with average tickets of between 10 and 50 euros. Only the remaining 10% actually respond to large purchases. In practice, the fact that all operations end up reflected in a receipt means that the supers generate about 5 billion tickets that require the use of almost 4,500 tons of paper and a million-dollar expense. Is it important? Beyond the millions of receipts that are printed each year and the cost that this entails in tons of paper and euros, Asedas’ proposal is interesting for at least two reasons. To start with who throws it. Asedas presume to be “the first food distribution business organization in Spain” and cover 19,200 retail stores and 495 wholesalers. Between your partners Companies such as Mercadona, Lidl, Aldi or Dia appear. Another key is that its idea is in line with what is already done in other European countries. For example, in 2023 France said goodbye to the generation of tickets by default precisely because of the amount of paper it consumed. That doesn’t mean they no longer exist, but they must be requested. In the Netherlands, Switzerland and Sweden there have also been changes related to the generation of receipts. In Spain itself, some large chains they take time moving towards the digital ticket. Images | Xataka Mobile and Wikipedia In Xataka | There was a time not too long ago when the future of supermarkets seemed like Amazon Go. Now Amazon Go is dead

“you should spend all your time practicing vibe coding”

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Alexandr Wang is only in his twenties, but under his responsibility he has the greatest minds in AI in his position as head of the Meta AI Lab. In one of his last interventions during the coverage of the Meta Connect event in the TBPN podcastissued a very direct recommendation to adolescents and young people concerned about their future work: “you should spend all your time practicing vibe coding“. The idea behind his statements is that the sooner you begin to familiarize yourself with the new ways of programmingthe more options you will have when AI is involved in almost everything we use. ​Everything will be “vibe coding”. Wang assured in his speech that the work of software engineers had changed a lot in recent years and that, even for someone who had been in the job market for as few years as he had, it’s going to change a lot more in the next five years. The Goal Manager and founder of Scale AI assures that it is no longer so much about being good at programming in Python, C++ or JavaScript, but about learn to converse with the AI ​​models that are already programming in those languages ​​and explain to them precisely and with natural language what you want to achieve, and monitor its results until the result works. According to Wang, the future of programming inevitably involves he Vibe Coding. The best thing is to start now. Wang’s strongest message is aimed directly at teenagers. “If you’re 13, you should spend all your time coding with Vibe Coding. That’s what you should do,” said the young Meta manager. Wang compared the current technological moment with the computer technology boom of the late 70s and early 80s with the flourishing of the computer industry. “When personal computers emerged, those who spent more time with them and grew up with them had a huge advantage in the economy of the future, like the Bill Gates and even the Mark Zuckerbergs of the world. I think that moment is happening right now,” stressed the founder of Scale AI. Practice new skills. Wang takes that idea even further when he talks about the dedication necessary for today’s young people to acquire those programming skills for their future work. “If you spend 10,000 hours playing with those tools and discovering how to use them better than others, that will be a big advantage,” encouraged the Meta executive. His criteria are based on his own experience, since at just 19 years old, Wang fundó Scale AI, a company dedicated to labeling content for training AI models and only 25 years old, entered the list of millionaires of Forbes with a fortune valued at more than $1.1 billion. The future of programming. According to Wang in his speech, it is clear to him that AI will not only help with programming, but will also write by itself practically all the code that a person like him has produced in his entire career. However, Wang does not believe that the role of the human engineer will disappear, but rather that it will shift to another point in the process. Your job will be to know what to ask for, how to combine different tools, how to review what the AI ​​produces and how to turn it into real products. That is why he insists so much that children and adolescents get used to this as soon as possible. new way of workingso that the youngest learn to use the Vibe Coding and integrate it naturally into their way of working as we already do today with computers and programming languages. In Xataka | “In a year or two, code editors will not exist”: four programmers explain the vibe coding revolution to us Image | Scale AI

There’s a reason you spend hours watching reels on Instagram until 3:00 AM: the science of doomscrolling

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It’s one in the morning. We should be sleeping but the finger is still sliding across the screen, scrolling through videos on TikTokreels on Instagram or posts on X. A viral meme, a new fire in the area or a new political crisis has us hooked on the screen. And although we may be exhausted, it cannot be stopped. If this scene sounds familiar to you, then welcome to the club. doomscrolling. A term that became massively popular during the pandemic and which can be defined as the habit of consuming prolonged form negative news or distressing, mainly through social networks. But behind this process, which may be very common in society right now, there are numerous chemical processes in the brain that science has not hesitated to investigate. The trap mechanism. To understand why we do doomscrollingwe must first understand that our brain did not evolve to have X or TikTok, but rather it evolved to survive. And it is not so long ago that humans were hunting for food or fleeing from a threat in nature, and it is something that our brain is still very much aware of. According to the most recent scientific literaturethe fact of sliding our screen down activates our reward brain circuits such as the dopaminergic system in each interaction. This drives us at all times to continue searching for information and evolutionarily knowing “where the danger is” was vital. The problem is that in this case the algorithm has no purpose, and we can spend 24 hours watching this type of news. But the reward system, which gives us ‘pleasure’ when knowing where the danger is, is not alone. It is accompanied by the amygdala which is the fear center in our brain. When seeing all this information, such as a war nearby in our territory, the brain interprets it as a potential threat that results in a large release of cortisol. This hormone is precisely known as the ‘stress hormone’, because it keeps the body in a state of hypervigilance. The result of these two circuits is quite clear as point out publications in Frontiers in Psychiatry and Brain Behavior: The brain seeks relief from information, but only finds more threats. This results in a toxic cycle being generated in which one seeks to calm down, becomes more scared, and searches again. The rotten brain. On social networks there is already a lot of talk of the term brain rot which translates to ‘brain rot’ like a real meme. but science has a very different opinionsince recent research suggests that repeated exposure to these fragmented stimuli with high emotional impact, with 15-second videos and alarmist headlines, have a high physical cost. The impact is located above all in executive functions (planning, organization, decision making…). And the constant alternation of these catastrophic contexts forces the brain to jump from one idea to another in milliseconds, and it is not something free. The cost we have to pay can be summarized in three points: Mental fatigue due to the high consumption of glucose that the brain has to make by having to constantly change focus. Deterioration of the prefrontal cortex, which is associated with a reduction in the efficiency of the area responsible for planning and impulse control. Processing blockage when the brain is on hyperalert. This makes it difficult to transfer information to long-term memory. Do we no longer know how to concentrate? This is the question we can all ask ourselves due to this phenomenon. The short answer from science is: we know, but it is much harder for us to “get started.” Studies on digital multitasking indicate that it is not that we have lost ability physiological of sustained attention, but we have trained our brain to expect interruptions. Deep attention (what you need to read a book for example) requires a “warm-up” time. He doomscrolling and the constant stream of notifications resets that counter constantly. Research collected in BMC Public Health they point out that attention remains “anchored” waiting for the next update. Even when you are not looking at your phone, a part of your cognitive resources is focused on it, reducing your performance on the task in front of you. It is not an irreversible decline, it is an atrophy due to lack of use of deep concentration circuits. There is hope. Despite the apocalyptic tone of the studies themselves on the subject, the scientific conclusion It’s not that we’re doomed. to be distracted automatons glued to a phone. The great advantage that humans have is neuroplasticity. With this term we mean that just as the brain learns to scroll compulsively, it can “unlearn.” Experts agree that the damage is not permanent unless the behavior becomes chronic for years without intervention. Evidence-supported strategies for breaking the cortisol-dopamine loop include: Set strict times to inform yourself and never before bed. Do exercises mindfulness as a tool to restore the default neural network. Allowing the brain to rest and ‘get bored’ without stimuli to help cleanse itself and regain the ability to focus. Images | Yazid N In Xataka | Young people have decided to stop posting (so much) on Facebook and Instagram. “AI-generated garbage” has free rein

In 1995 a program came out that promised to double your PC’s RAM. In the best of cases what I did was not spend more

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The 90s were wonderful in the world of software and hardware. Epic trolling like that of the 299 dollars of the first PlayStationthe legendary key of Windows 95 or the PlayStation emulator presented by Steve Jobs himself. In the middle of the decade a program came out that promised the impossible: double the amount of RAM on your PC. Its name was SoftRAM 95 and, although it makes us raise an eyebrow today, in its day it sold hundreds of thousands of copies for $80 each. And spoiler: it was of absolutely no use. SoftRAM 95, the miracle solution for your PC’s RAM The launch of a program like this is a product of its time, one in which users they could have been less ‘smart’ Now for more than logical reasons and in an industry in which everything was learned and developed as we went. There were times when the smartest were the ones who got results, but a company called Suncronys Softcorp learned its lesson the hard way. The year was 1995 and Windows 95 was beginning to revolutionize homes. Although the Microsoft system made control a PC was more accessible than ever (unfortunately for Steve Jobs), the hardware still had a brutal barrier to entry: the price. They were still expensive devices, very expensive, so saving on components saved a few dollars. RAM It was one of those components for which you paid gold per KB, but… what if there was a program that, for a few dollars, doubled the amount of memory on our PC? What if he did all this without having to touch any piece of our equipment? That is where the Californian Syncronys Softcorp saw a vein and – now we can say that in bad faith – launched its program: SoftRAM 95. It went on sale in August 1995 and it is estimated that they sold a whopping 600,000 copies until December of that same year. In those days, it was truly outrageous. And the logical question is how he achieved what he promised. The long answer is that it compressed the memory, so when the operating system needed to save data from RAM to the hard drive, SoftRAM 95 compressed it before writing it, reducing the amount of space needed on the disk and allowing the RAM to have more space available. The concept, roughly speaking, is correct, and the program interface told us that yes, congratulations, you had double the amount of RAM. The long answer is that it didn’t do what it promised. Although technically they were on the right track, this process at the time was tremendously ambitious for one reason: the speed of both the RAM and the primitive hard drives It was so absurdly slow that, effectively, the objective could not be met. They knew this from the top of Syncronys, but they didn’t care: the money was pouring in because each license cost about 30 dollars. Under the magnifying glass of the press… and Microsoft However, things quickly went wrong. A magazine of the time called PC Magazine submitted the software to a analysis How these analyzes should be done: testing whether the program really did what it promised. Using blocks of data to evaluate whether compression was effective, they found that processing times were exactly the same with compressible data and with random data that could not be compressed. They came to the conclusion that the only thing SoftRAM did was show an animated screen which gave the user the perception that they were working when, in reality, they were doing absolutely nothing. But beyond the press, those who got their hands on the software were Bryce Cogswell and Mark Russinovich, two Microsoft engineers who dissected the program at the code level. Basically, confirmed the well-founded suspicion of PC Magazine and pointed out that the program never actually worked. That is, the paging controller device – that compression of the RAM to transfer it to the hard drive – it closed just when loadingso it never did anything at all other than display false numbers while the operating system worked exactly as it should, whether the program was installed or not. When I said before that the management of Syncronys knew it, it was not because we saw history with the eyes of the present. When everything was revealed, they reported that RAM compression was not being carried out and, in addition, it was learned that they sold the software even though its developers had warned that the product was not ready. And it wasn’t aI’ll launch it and I’ll fix itlike many current games”, because in 1995 Internet updates were not the norm. Just when the company thought it was over, the US Federal Trade Commission arrived. Following its investigation, Syncronys finally acknowledged that it had misrepresented the performance of its product and banned it from selling any more copies of both SoftRAM and Windows 3.1 as SoftRAM 95. In total, both versions placed 700,000 copies on the market and Syncronys declared bankruptcy in July 98, owing 4.5 million dollars. The idea did not die with SoftRAM In the end, what SoftRAM did The best case scenario was not to eat up your PC’s resources.and it was one of those attempts to sell whatever in a still somewhat naive market. For PC Worldnext to AOL and RealPlayerSoftRAM is the worst technology product of all time. But of course, with the eyes of 2025, you may be wondering… what happens with solutions like Windows Vista ReadyBoost and the mobile memory expansion? It’s a different matter and, although both promise to improve performance by using “extra memory”, it is something very different from what SoftRAM did. ReadyBoost, for example, allowed you to use the memory of a pen drive as a cache to speed up access to frequent data. It acted as an extension of the system’s virtual memory and the theory is correct, but again we ran into the speed limitation of USBs … Read more

If you spend more than 25,000 euros a year with your card, the PIN will not be the only information they ask for

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He cash is increasingly anecdotal for consumers, not only because of the lack of concern that comes with not having to be looking for a cashier to withdraw cash from time to time, but for the convenience that the mobile payments. However, from January 1, 2026, the Treasury will have stricter control over payments made with bank cards. If a card accumulates more than 25,000 euros in annual expenses, financial institutions will be obliged to “submit an annual informative return” on these movements to the Treasury. Payments of more than 25,000 euros must be declared. The new measure is included in the regulatory modification introduced by the Royal Decree 253/2025allowing the State to detect possible fraud and ensure that capital movements of a certain size are transparent and justified. This control comes at a time when most payments are made digitally and cash is increasingly used less. Therefore, the regulations that already required financial institutions to notify cash movements have been reinforced. The scope is expanded. Until now, the regulations required notification of payments with cards and Bizum of more than 3,000 euros per year to companies and professionals. However, the scope of the measure is now extended to all charges made by card in any payment method, both in physical establishments and online, as well as through platforms linked to telephone numbers. That is, it not only affects credit or debit card payments, but also extends the measure to Bizum or other mobile payment systems. “Banking or credit entities and other entities that, in accordance with current regulations, provide the collection management service through cards, with physical or virtual support, that offer cash, debit, deferred debit, credit and electronic money functions, in any currency, as well as through payments associated with a mobile phone number, to businessmen and professionals established in Spain,” the regulations specify. Differentiation between companies and individuals. The new regulations establish differences between business and private use, but in both cases entities must notify movements of more than 25,000 euros annually. For self-employed workers and companies, the new regulations eliminate the minimum limits to communicate card operationswhich implies that any payment, regardless of its amount, must be reported to the Tax Agency. This significantly increases the monitoring and traceability of all commercial operations carried out with card or mobile payment. On the other hand, for individual consumers, only those who have a high annual spending with cards will be subject to this more exhaustive tax control. What information is reported? In accordance with the provisions of article 38ter that modifies the new Royal Decree, financial entities must notify the Treasury of the following data about the holders and linked payment products of those who spend more than 25,000 euros per year in card spending: Contract number formalized by the entity for the issuance of cards. Identification data of the contract holders (or their authorized persons or beneficiaries), which will include name and surname or company name, tax identification number, country of residence, and date of birth for natural persons. In the absence of a tax identification number, the passport number or identity number valid in your country of origin and the country issuing the identification documentation will be provided. Card number (PAN) associated with the contract and type of card. Number of subscriptions and their total amount, registered on the card in the year, with indication of the number of cash recharges and their total amount, made on the card in the year (movements and total amount of the expense) Number of charges and their total amount, recorded on the card in the year, with an indication of the number of spending operations carried out with the card and their total amount, derived from payments made in establishments in the year and the number of cash withdrawals and their total amount, made with the card in the year. Identification of the account, if applicable, to which the card operation is linked, through its International Bank Account Code (IBAN) or, failing that, through the corresponding customer account code. In Xataka | In 2030 we will no longer have to enter card numbers in purchases. Mastercard already has a substitute Image | Unsplash (Nathana Rebouças)

India will spend a fortune on having its own chips industry. The problem is not just money

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India has approved An investment of 18.2 billion dollars To develop ten semiconductor projects and thus create an entire chip industry from scratch. The country wants to reduce its dependence on imports and compete with powers such as Taiwan and United Statesbut the country will be necessary for more than money to execute its strategy. Ambition is disproportionate. India is one of the largest consumers of electronic devices in the world, but it does not practically No local chips industry. Its implementation in the semiconductors aims to create the entire supply chain, from the design to the manufacture, tests and packaging, in the region. The approved projects include two manufacturing plants of semiconductors and multiple test and packaging factories. The opportunity of India. The race began in 2022, when the United States restricted chips exports of advanced to China. This triggered a global competition for self -sufficiency in semiconductors, and for India was a golden opportunity to reduce imports and capture a greater share of the global market of electronic devices that moves away from China. Beyond money. Stephen Ezell, Vice President of Global Innovation Policy in Information Technology and Innovation Foundation, Explain which India needs “more than a few semiconductor factories.” The Executive explains that leading manufacturers “consider up to 500 different factors before investing billions in a plant”, including talent, fiscal policies, labor regulations, technological infrastructure and customs policies, areas in which India still has pending work. The Government changes strategy. New Delhi has modified its approach initial. In 2022 he focused only on advanced chips of 28 nanometers or less, but this did not help develop the nascent Indian industry. Now the government finances 50% of the costs of all manufacturing projects, regardless of the size of the chip, and also supports the test and packaging units. Star projects are already underway. The largest current project is the semiconductor manufacturing plant of 11,000 million dollars That Tata Electronics builds in Gujarat, in association with the Taiwanese Powerchip Semiconductor Manufacturing Corp. The installation will produce chips for energy management, screen controllers and microcontrollers that can be used in AI, automotive and data storage. Talent exists, but it is limited. India has a reserve of engineers who already work for global chips design companies since the 90s. However, Jayanth BR, recruiter with more than 15 years of experience in the sector, Explain that international companies only subcontract design validation work “at the block level” to India. The central design remains in the United States or Singapore. Intellectual property is the great challenge. Sajai Singh, partner of the Jsa Jsa Advocates & Requests, Point out that India must update its intellectual property laws and improve application mechanisms. “Our competition is with countries like the United States, Europe and Taiwan, which not only have solid Pi laws, but also a more consolidated ecosystem for chips design,” he explains. And now what. The next three or four years will be decisive for the objectives of semiconductors of India, according to Sujay Shetty, general director of semiconductors at PWC India. There are still factors that India must stop, since manufacturing plants require specific locations without flooding or vibrations, with reliable road connections and suppliers of specialized chemicals that meet standards of ultraralta purity. India is still far from producing 2 nanometers avant -garde chips, but could find its niche in assembly and semiconductor tests, a sector with lower capital requirements and better margins. Cover image | Brian Kostiuk and Naveed Ahmed In Xataka | The undisputed winner of the aggressive competition of TSMC, Intel and Samsung is a European company: ASML

378 days locked in a Martian simulator will spend

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On October 19, four volunteers will cross the door of Mars Dune Alpha, a structure of 160 square meters printed in 3D at the NASA Johnson Space Center. They will not go out again until October 31, 2026. His mission: Living and working as if they were the first settlers of Mars while providing crucial data for future Martian missions. The four chosen. NASA He has just announced to the crew of its second Chapea mission (Crew Health and Performance Exploration Analog), which will enclose four people for 378 days in a habitat that simulates the expected living conditions on Mars. After a rigorous selection process, not very different from that of astronaut candidates to support the isolation, NASA has selected a team composed of: Commander Ross Elder, US Air Force Testing Pilot with more than 1,800 flight hours Medical Officer Ellen Ellis, Colonel of the United States Space Force and an expert in communications systems Scientific officer Matthew Montgomery, Hardware Engineering Consultant expert in robotics and agriculture in controlled environments Flight engineer James Spicer, technical director in the aerospace and defense industry, satellite communications expert and spacecraft design In addition, Emily Phillips, captain and pilot of the Navy, and Laura Marie, commercial airline pilot, will act as alternate crew members. A 3D printed home. Mars Dune Alpha is a Martian habitat simulator made with additive manufacturing In a material called “Lavacrete”. It is the technology that NASA believes that we will use to raise future planetary bases without having to transport the heavy materials of construction from the earth. The new home of the four participants has everything necessary for their life next year: four private cabins, work stations, a medical position, rest areas, a kitchen and areas for food cultivation. It also has an outer area that simulates the Martian surface, where they will perform simulated space walks for maintenance and exploration tasks. A year of isolation and lettuce. The Chapea mission is designed to be a faithful reflection of the challenges of a Martian life. The four volunteers will face resource limitations, possible team failures, artificial delays in communications with mission control and, of course, the very real stress that will cause them isolation and confinement. Their daily tasks include walks simulated by Mars, robotic operations, scientific research and the cultivation of their own food, especially vegetables to complement their diet. As if it were A great scientific brotherNASA will collect cognitive and physical performance data on the crew throughout the confinement to better understand the impacts that will have long -term manned to the health and performance of astronauts. Second edition. This is the second of the three chape missions scheduled by NASA. The first ended in July 2024. In addition to growing tomatoes and performing their tasks, the first participants declared having maintained high moral thanks to A complete PlayStation 4 Games Library 4. NASA’s conclusion is that leisure and free time will be fundamental aspects in future long -term space explorations. Images | NASA, Freepik In Xataka | He cheated his wife, the army and the Government of Ireland: the incredible history of the man who passed through Astronaut

Spend more on R&D than any of its rivals

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Intel has not just lifted. With An intractable nvidia in the segment of artificial intelligence and with a Unattainable TSMCthe company tries to adapt to The new times. The hope is that the latest capital injections help: in recent days we have seen how Softbank invest 2,000 million euros euros in it and then the United States government has bought 10% of Intel to save it from burning. However, the company Directed by Lip-Bu Tan He is putting all the meat on the grill to try to do it. It is demonstrated by the Spectacular amount of money invested in your R&D department. The surprising thing is not to invest a lot of money; That is expected in a technological company. The really surprising thing is that he invests much more than his rivals. Intel invest more than anyone in R&D, but be careful: their rivals squeeze the step An analysis by Techinsights cited In Korea Joongang Daily It collects the financial results of Intel and some of its rivals in 2024 to study its investments in R&D. According to these data, these were those amounts for various companies: Intel: 16,546 million dollars (PDF) Nvidia: 12,914 million dollars (Nvidia) Samsung: 9,500 million dollars (Joongang) TSMC: 6.5 billion dollars (Joongang) AMD: 6,456 million dollars (PDF) That means that Intel invests 28% more than Nvidia – which right now has a much greater dimension – 47% more than Samsung and nothing less than 156% more than AMD or TSMC, which despite the most important company in the world in the manufacture of semiconductors does not dedicate more money than its rivals to innovate. The thing becomes even more interesting if we compare these R&D investments with the income of these companies. In 2024 Intel invested 31% of its net incomewhile AMD invested 26%. Nvidia only invested 10% – but not to make money with their AI products – but here the truly striking is that Samsung does not seem so interested in its R&D department, because it only invested 4% of its net income. It is also important to note that in AMD they do not have their own production plants such as the rest of their competitors, so although their investment in R&D was the lowest of these four companies, all that investment went to the chip design in full. The problem for Intel is that its growth in investment in R&D grew only 3.1% that in 2023. Compared Samsung grew by 71.3% more, NVIDIA 47% more and TSMC 8.8% more. They all seem to press the step more than Intelwhich raises just the opposite. In fact it is known if in That cuts policy which is carrying out Lip-Bu so will also end up cuts in the division and cost of R&D, but It seems possible that it is so. If so, this 2025 NVIDIA may end up being the company that spends the most in R&D, especially to try not to lose its privileged position in the AI ​​market. Image | Intel In Xataka | Intel’s fall symbolizes the end of an era: the model that dominated technology for 50 years has died

The AI ​​career not only to be better. It goes that every second you spend in chatgpt is a second that you are not in Tiktok

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Mark Zuckerberg’s work is not to make the world a better place. Nor is it to connect with our loved ones and recover old friendships. No. Zuckerberg’s work is one and only one. Have us Glued To the. Screen. This is what has been trying with Facebook, Instagram or WhatsApp for 20 years. Here it was not about allowing us to share photos, comments and experiences with our contacts, but to keep their applications hooked at any price. When connecting people stopped being enough, the news thread (News Feed) arrived from Facebook, and when that ceased to be enough, the stories and reels and short videos and toxic algorithms and the toxic algorithms and the toxic algorithms and the toxic algorithms and doomscrolling. All that worked very well to the goal, which became with Google in the great Internet winner and who entered (and entered) indecent amounts of money with advertising. But Zuckerberg has realized that Social networks face the greatest existential threat of their history: the AI. Because AI is achieving what no other application or platform had achieved in recent years: it is stealing users to Facebook, Instagram, but also Tiktok, YouTube Oa X. Every second that a user spends in Chatgpt asking or, increasingly, talking, it is a second less that is not on those social networks. And that is terrible to finish, Google, Bytedance or X, because suddenly they begin to see how the economy of attention may no longer in their hands. There are millions of users who begin to Take robotic girlfriends or that they use them as psychologists or like simple virtual friends, loyal and perfect. And it happens that they do not do it on social networks: they go to chatgpt, they subscribe to Replika, or use any of the many available alternatives. The career for the economy of attention And the Big Tech have realized. They know that the economy of attention is escaping, so they are doing everything they can to recover it. That is why all have put them crazy to invest thousands and thousands and billions of dollars in creating their own AI and megainfrastructure that allow everyone to chat with machines without stopping. Because if people do not want to be (so much) on Facebook, X, Tiktok or YouTube, there is no problem: for that they are target AI, Grok, Doubao or Gemini, that they want to convince you that you talk to them instead of doing it with chatgpt or with any other. If social networks are no longer enough, they tell us, do not worry. If you want to chat with them, you will have it to chat with them. Zuckerberg is a clear example of that obsession with AI. After the failure – at least until now – of his metaverso, he has put us Goal AI Even in the soup and is flooding “ai smop” Your social networks. But also seeing that his open model calls I didn’t just sethas changed the step and created A new Galactic Team of Superintelligence to win the career of A ia. Sorry. To win the career of the conquest of our attention. That is exactly the same as Elon Musk and Xai with Grok, a bot that has been successfully infiltrated in X – not as a goal AI. Or with Google and Gemini, which has the advantage that it is the default AI in billions of Android devices. Or with Microsoft, who pursues exactly the same with co -pilot. These IAS certainly help us and help us in many lands, but the Big Tech know that behind all those advantages there is a much more important goal: Whoever wins the AI ​​career will win the career of the economy of attention. And that company, whatever it is, will have absolutely attached to its AI. Image | Airam Dato-on In Xataka | The cover of the AI ​​is a goal. He has been betting on her for more than a decade and has much more than she calls

Five ideal portable batteries if you are going to spend all day away from home

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There are very few weeks left for the return to school, so it is now a good time to buy all the school supplies, but also those devices that can be practical for the next year. If you are going to need a PowerBank or portable battery, in this article we have gathered five models compatible with mobile phones, tablets or laptops. Ugreen Nexode 45w by 49.99 eurosa portable battery aimed at mobile phones. Belkin Boostcharge Pro by 55.89 eurosa PowerBank with a wireless load module compatible with Apple Magsafe. Anker Prime by 79.99 eurosa powerful powerBank that can be used even in laptops. Anker Zolo by 99.99 eurosa portable battery with 25,000 mAh and 165W power. Ugreen Nexode 145W by 125.99 eurosa PowerBank that allows recharging up to four devices at once. Ugreen Nexode 45w If you do not need to carry a PowerBank to recharge the laptop or tablet, it is best to bet on a more economical model that has good capacity. The Ugreen Nexode 45wwhat costs 49.99 euroscomes with 20,000 mAh theoretical and allows to recharge three devices at the same time using its integrated USB-C cable, its USB-C port and its USB-A port. The integrated cable can be used as a transport strap and takes approximately four hours to load. * Some price may have changed from the last review Belkin Boostcharge Pro If you have a mobile with wireless load, but above all a iPhone Compatible with Apple Magsafe, the Belkin Boostcharge Pro has a price of 55.89 euros. It comes with theoretical capacity of 10,000 mAh, includes a pin that works as a support and is quite compact. It also allows three devices to be recharged (two USB-C ports and the wireless load module) and offers a 20W power. * Some price may have changed from the last review Anker Prime The Anker Prime It is the PowerBank that I have myself and works at one thousand wonders. Its price is 79.99 euros And it has a theoretical capacity of 20,000 mAh, offers a total power of 200W and allows three devices to be recharged through its two USB-C ports and its USB-A port. It is compatible with mobiles, tablets and computers. It includes a screen that shows information related to the load status and takes just over an hour to completely load. * Some price may have changed from the last review Anker Zolo A step above we find the Anker Zoloa portable battery that stands out for its thin design. Costs 99.99 euros In Amazon and comes with a theoretical capacity of 25,000 mAh, it offers a total power of 165W and is able to recharge up to four devices at the same time Through its two integrated USB-C cables, its USB-C port and its USB-A port. It is also compatible with mobiles, tablets and computers and takes just over an hour to completely load. * Some price may have changed from the last review Ugreen Nexode 145W Finally, the Ugreen Nexode 145W It is also an interesting PowerBank for both its price, which is 125.99 eurosas for everything it offers: it has a theoretical capacity of 20,000 mAh, it offers a total power of 145W and allows to recharge up to four devices at the same time through its wireless load module (Compatible with Apple Magsafe), its two USB-C ports and its USB-A port. It is a little wider, but also more flattened, than the rest of portable batteries and takes about two hours to completely recharge. In addition, it is also compatible with mobiles, tablets and computers. * 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 | Ugreen, Belkin, Anker In Xataka | Better laptops to study: which to buy with recommendations based on your career and budget In Xataka | Best tablets to study. Which to buy and five recommended models with better quality price

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