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Ibai is going to launch its own football team to start from the lowest. There is actually a very thoughtful strategy

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Ibai Llanos is, without a doubt, The most ambitious Spanish streamer. Restless and little given to be in a single type of content, it is stretching the limits of what can be expected from a creator on the Internet to use, to the point that its new project is out of the merely virtual environment: it has announced that it will finance a football team that will start in the most modest categories with the intention of ascending what you can. From the fourth division. Nothing less than in the fourth Catalan division will start the team, as the streamer From your Tiktok account. “We are going to start in the lowest category in Spain and we will try to ascend over the years, as far as we arrive,” he says (although it is not exactly the lowest possible category). The digital confidential revealswith information arrived from the environment of Ibai, which there is already a field in which to train, whose location will be revealed soon. Aspects such as the name and other issues will be chosen collaboratively. Starting. At the moment, there are no players: they need 20 and a coaching staff, and the search has already begun. He has opened the call for players in his networks, and we sympathize with whom he has to manage the avalanche of children’s videos giving touches. The choice of the fourth Catalan division is not accidental, of course: Ibai resides in Catalonia and that regional category allows you to enter the federated football system. This team still without a name is, therefore, Ibai’s next step within soccer management, after Your football team 7Porcinos fc, will achieve win the world championship of the Kings League devised by Piqué. Buy the Murcia. It is not the first time that Ibai enters the field of soccer management. In 2021 he expressed his desire to Buy Real Murciaproclaiming his desire that “a humble team is respected the shield.” The mention of Murcia is not accidental: although the team is not at its best (especially considering that it was in 1st division, it is now in the first federation, the third level of Spanish football divisions), it has a great stadium, much follow -up in the city and a long history of famous interested in it: Auronplay and Djmariio They were shareholders And they also The presenters of modern life. Investor problems … Football club management for large business or famous groups has generated abundant controversies in recent years. For example, Valencia is plunged into A serious crisis Under the property of Peter Lim, Singapore businessman, who has been accused of bad financial management, lack of investment, sale of key players and disconnection with the local fans. Granada CF has suffered similar problems, managed by Chinese investors and subsequently sold to other funds. In this context, he has suffered management problems and has accused the lack of a stable sports project, with frequent changes of coaches and directive. … and the celebrities. Valladolid suffered a similar image and results crisis that has lasted until very recently: Ronaldo Nazário acquired 51% of the club in 2018 promising to take it to the elite. A roller coaster of promotions and descents led to the disgust of the fans. After a disastrous season, Ronaldo has sold its participation majority to an American investment group. This case is perhaps the clearest of a media personality with a past linked to football that took the controls of a club with disastrous results, and that possibly Ibai is very present. THE INTER CASE. There is another case, very recent, and that concerns other personalities of the sphere of the streaming: The Madrid International Football Club, founded in 2002, amounted from the Madrid regional until reaching Second Division B. in 2020 He merged with the eSports Dux Gaming teambecoming called Dix International of Madrid. Behind the pioneer union, which linked traditional football and eSports under the same seal, were the players Thibaut Courtois and Borja Iglesias, and the Djmariio youtuber. However, economic and administrative conflicts with the Royal Spanish Football Federation in 2022 led Dux Gaming It will separate from the project. The result was that, since then, any approach to traditional football from the orbit of the Streamers It is seen with suspicion. An important challenge. Ibai is accustomed to assuming large -scale challenges, and to get out of Niche appearance projects like the evening. Therefore, your first decision, not to buy an existing team to save time and resources, but to found it from zero and start from below, has a clear strategy. Now it only remains to see if the innumerable decisions that have ahead takes them with the same common sense. Header | Ibai Llanos In Xataka | The evening of the year 5: When is schedules, fighting, performances and where to see the boxing event of Ibai Llanos

The reason why electricity took more than 15 hours to restore 100% in Spain: the feared “Black Start”

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The Iberian Peninsula went out at 12:33 of April 28. In just five seconds, two southwest disconnections of the peninsula They removed more than half of the instant demand from the network. The frequency collapsed and interconnection with France jumped by instability. Spain stayed at 0 MW and 0 Hz, never seen. Resting the service was the real challenge. 15 hours of surgical work. At 03:30 on Tuesday, Red Eléctrica, the Spanish electrical system operator, announced that 99.95% of the demand was covered again (100% was not reached until the afternoon in the afternoon). Spain starred in greater practical exercise of replacement of a European network From the great continental blackout of 2006, The first on this scale from a country that obtains its energy mainly from renewable sources. The dreaded Black Start. Turn on the light out of nowhere, start the zero power grid. With 50 million users, Spain has faced One of the most challenging cases of “Black Start” They are remembered. He needed 15 hours because he had to go step by step, first starting the most flexible plants: hydroelectric plants, enabled for Black Start with diesel structure to feed pumps, valves and control systems). Mainless Spain redeemed. With 10% of the Spanish mix and 25% of the Portuguese, the pumping hydraulics was the first ammunition: The hydroelectric plants of the Muela and Aldeadávila They synchronized in three minutes, moving from zero to 3 GW. Each central created its 50 Hz “island” (the frequency at which the turbines have to turn) before introducing load. Red Electric was connecting the turbines one by one and introducing load in a dosing way so as not to stop them. Gas for climbing. With the nuclear off (except for the imported of France, which provided 1.4 GW of power in the replacement), the gas plants became the backbone of the network before reincorporating renewables. Monday’s wind was almost calm and the photovoltaic disappeared at nightfall, so the weight fell on water and gas. Morocco injected several hundred MW who were critical to start plants in Andalusia. As for nuclear. The automatic cut of five of the seven reactors generated a radio traffic jam: the xenon-135 accumulated after a sudden stop absorbs neutrons and blocks the reaction for 24-48 h. 32 hours after the blackout, No nuclear had yet been synchronized. That 3-4 GW hole synchronous forced to squeeze hydraulics and gas and delayed total recovery. The fuses jumped. When the blackout occurred, more than 70% of the generation was renewable (37% solar, 32% wind). 3.4 GW of nuclear energy, 1.6 GW of cycles and 1.4 GW of cogeneration provided the synchronous inertia of the network, but were not enough to compensate for the disconnection of two stations. Neither The interconnected network was enough to sustain the frequency (only 3 GW with France and 700 MW with Morocco). The substations acted as giant fuses against imbalance and isolated the network to avoid catastrophic damage. That is why it is said that Spain and Portugal are energy islands, despite being in the same network as the rest of European countries. Some lessons. With high renewable quotas, which They do not have the inertia of other energy sources To stabilize the network, it takes a greater resilience than the European electricity grid. In other words, invest in investors at network level, batteries and renewable synchronous (biomass or more pumping hydraulics). As well as in better interconnections. All this is planned, but it was not on time to avoid the blackout and the Black Start. Image | Electric Red In Xataka | We have just lived the first great blackout of the renewable era. The debate is now how to get the last one

Vietnam has tired of China’s artificial islands, so he has decided to start building his own

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China has been pulling tons of sand for more than a decade. And not only is he doing it for Build airports: They are dozens of artificial islands for expand its military power. It is about China’s strategy to claim the maritime territories that they consider their own and that are also doing in the Yellow Sea coast in front of South Korea. The problem is that one of its neighbors has been tired. Vietnam has also begun to lift artificial islands in the same territory with a clear objective: to prevent China from conquering the area. AND The tension is servedclear. Spratly Islands. It may seem more reef, but that of Spratly Islands It is tremendously important at the geopolitical level. It is a reef that is located between four countries whose relations, in some cases, are a hotbed: China, Vietnam, the Philippines and Taiwan, and they are also a set of rich islands in resources natural as fishing banks (suitable for a China to which His folders fall short), oil and natural gas. It is estimated that there are 105,000 million barrels of oil and many other millions of gas drums. There is tension, therefore, to control those resources, but also because it is a relevant point at the strategic level. They are located on one of the most busy maritime routes and are key to both international trade as for world movement. Controlling that archipelago implies having an essential influence globally. Claims. And the situation is a chicken coop. The archipelago is composed of a hundred islands and there are countries that carry decades claiming his sovereignty over it. On the one hand, China says that the fishermen of the Ming dynasty of the fifteenth century have already established themselves there, so the islands belong to them. In addition, in 1947 they made a map that showed how they all belonged to them, starting to occupy some of them in 1988. Malaysia se put In the fight in 1979, claiming part of the archipelago, the same case as Brunéi. Philippines is another player on this board, occupying some islands and occupying some of them with soldiers, but the most persistent are Taiwan and Vietnam. Both demand the entire territory as their own. Taiwan, with the same foundation as China, and Vietnam, stating that the islands were part of the kingdom of Annam – predecessor of the country – during the nineteenth century. Both China and Vietnam recovered archaeological remains to demonstrate that the islands belonged to them in the past and had to remain their property today. But since they did not convince each other, they decided to go to action. Mischief is an example. It is in Chinese power and has names in different languages ​​depending on which country you ask. For China is měijì jiāo. For Vietnam is đá Vành KhĂn. And for the Philippines is Bahura Ng Panganiban. Everyone considers that it is yours Background. Thus, and at some point in 2013, China began to move. Taking advantage of the rocky parts of the reef close to the surface and using Dredging ships to lift the bottom of the sea, they began to build islands and extend some existing ones. In just five years, they created seven artificial islands, the transformation of atolls into comparative satellite images being evident. Militarizing the archipelago. In this whole story, the military presence of the countries involved in the conflict has been key, starring even armed incidents between them. And one of China’s clear objectives is the militarization of this space with a double objective. On the one hand, the most obvious: if you create an island and the militarizas, you make sure that if someone wants it, you also have to arrive with armed troops, being able to trigger a greater conflict. Subi is one of the islands in which China has placed an airport. So it was before and after 2016 On the other, establishing and reinforcing the military presence in an area that, as we say, is key. It is something we have seen recently, with the discovery of A radar anti -furtive ships on one of the islands. And it is a radar, yes, but also a powerful message in an area where the United States also has the eye: if the US and its allies cannot operate poachers in the South China Sea, they may not be able to deal with the forces of the popular liberation army. Discovery Great Reef is held by Vietnam and down to the right we see some changes. Philippines, Taiwan and China say it’s them But well, it is not just a radar: there is also a missile launch platform, and in several of the islands occupied, created or expanded by China we can see presence of military infrastructure such as bases or airports. In this TWSJ video we can see perfectly the evolution of the islands: Vietnam is planted. In 2021, Vietnam got tired of the situation and, being together with Taiwan the country that has the most interest in the archipelago, also began to lift islands in the Spratly. Mainly, for military and port presence that reinforce maritime logistics, but putting the direct in recent months. Since June 2024, Vietnam has “grown” 641 new hectares and measurements Totals of expansion 1,343 hectares compared to 1,882 of China. And the expansion is being rapid: in 2021, Vietnam only had four advanced ports with port. Now, it has tripled that number with cases such as Barque Canada Reef in which only the atolon was intuited and now has even a landing floor. Before and after in the reef Barque Canada Complaints from each other. The objective of one and others is to operate more time and in greater numbers on those islands before a relief arrives, being able to carry out maneuvers and patrols during the area throughout the year, but curiously, although Vietnam had already shouted in the sky before with China’s movements, it is … Read more

Chatgpt has been a tool. If you start remembering all our conversations, it will be something else: a relationship

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A few days ago, Openai announced an “memory” update for chatgpt: You will begin to remember all our conversations Already take them into account when giving us an answer. No four inferred pieces as before: All our history. Well, it wasn’t even Openai who announced it. Was Sam Altman in Xas who does not want the thing. Openai focused those days on giving a court to a GPT 4.1 Much less transcendent for the user. And a few days later, Grok announced the same movement. The new super memory (not yet available to the European Union) is a total change in the use we give to Chatgpt. And to a lesser extent, to Grok, who does not have a lower professional utility. We are no longer facing a tool that we use and abandonbut before a digital entity with which we have an evolutionary conversation. A relationship. Let’s think about how we use a hammer, a calculator or even Google: we use them to solve a problem and then forget them until the next time we need them. There is no evolution in our interaction with them. On the other hand, our relationship with another person is contrasted on a cluster of previous interactions. We do not expect to have to remind a friend what team we are, or our partner what music we like. There is something deeply human in wanting to be rememberedto desire continuity in our interactions. The IAS that offer this experience will have an advantage not only technical and functional, but also psychological. Each conversation with chatgpt – at the margin of the utility of the GPTS– It will no longer be an eternal first day, but the continuation of a thread of shared knowledge. An assistant who remembers your allergy to nuts. Which understands that you like explanations with sports analogies. Who knows that you are working on an important personal project. On face B of the album, the concerns that it provokes to deposit so much about ourselves in an entity controlled by a company. Persistent memory offers extreme customization, but it also costs us A privacy toll. Openai says that you can deactivate this function, but the value of the service decreases if you do. It is a usual dilemma for any user of modern services. It will also exist for some The subtle temptation to replace human interactions – Sometimes frustrating – for more predictable interactions with an AI designed to please us. The AI ​​never tired, never has a bad day, never judges our repetitive questions or laughs if we ask something too basic. It is an idealized company version that could be too attractive to some, especially for those who feel alone. It is the first stone of A new type of software that asks for another type of relationship. And we are not accustomed to something like that. It is not useful to treat it as another human, but neither as the classic tools. Another conceptual category will need. Chatgpt will know us better than many of our friends and family. It will be something that maintains the thread of our thoughts throughout weeks, months and years. A constant presence that will evolve with us, which will even anticipate our desires. Chatgpt will no longer be a tool, but something much more intimate and personal. Almost alive. Outstanding image | Xataka In Xataka | Openai’s hypothetical social network does not want to connect people. Want your data to train your AI

In full protectionist withdrawal, Xiaomi wants to be the new huawei and knows where to start: with its own chips

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Huawei has become in recent years The best example to follow by Chinese manufacturers. It has been the first company to achieve full self -sufficiency (Understanding this as the manufacture of the product does not depend on companies outside of China), and marking a new line that the rest of the competitors want to follow. Chinese sources They point out that Xiaomi has just created a new department for Chips’s own development, with a former Qualcomm executive leading it. The intention is clear: Xiaomi wants to be the next Chinese manufacturer to mark the way. A new focus. According to Suehome Xiaomi sources, a new chips development department is establishing under the command of Qin Muyun, former product director at Qualcomm. The company would be allocating resources to meet something that Huawei has been chasing for years: its own manufacturing to reduce dependence with giants such as MediaTak or Qualcomm. Xiaomi already knows this path. In 2017 Xiaomi launched the Xiaomi Mi 5cthe company’s first phone with the chip S1 arises. It was the first time that Xiaomi, along with Pinecone Electronics, launched a phone with a chip of own development. The Mi 5C was the only phone to use it, comparable to a Snapdragon of the 626 series, and functioning as a strategic experiment rather than a model to follow. Beyond co-processors. Since 2017, Xiaomi has focused on the development of coprocessors. In 2021 the market was released Mix fold With the arise C1, an ISP (image processor) of Xiaomi. The arise P1 was the co-processor aimed at managing energy tasks during fast charge, trained in the Xiaomi 12 Pro. And models like the Xiaomi 13 Ultra They arrived with the G1 arise, also in charge of energy tasks. Since then, Xiaomi has not resumed the development of a complete chip. Something that could be looking for the new investment. The arduous task of developing its own processor. Developing chips is very expensive. So much, that TSMC has just announced increases of 30% due to the tariff war between the United States and China. With a lot of help from SMICthe main Chinese semiconductor giant, brands like Huawei have achieved the independence of TSMC. Xiaomi would need the help of the Chinese government (fiscal exemptions, bonuses and direct aid) to manufacture their own chips with the help of SMIC, something that would help him reduce dependence with the American TSMC. An example to follow. If Xiaomi manages to follow Huawei’s steps and become a company capable of producing its own chips, the Chinese industry will be hitting the table again. Hardware is not the only key, Xiaomi is committed to Hyperos with hardly any mentions of Android. He understands it as its own software, an ecosystem to be implemented in any consumption product. The tariff storm is torpedoing the Big Tech strategywith China seeking to reduce dependence on US companies and vice versa. Achieving this is not viable in the short term, but the door has been opened to a change in the consumer industry as we know it. Image | Xataka In Xataka | If the question is “how tariffs are going to affect the price of mobiles”, none of the answers is optimistic

The images of AI already flood the Internet. Google and see 2 will serve to start filling it with videos generated by AI

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The Images that mimic the Ghibli style They are very good, but be careful, because we can soon make small animation shorts that imitate that or any other style. The models of the generative video are closer more than ever to the general public by Google, which now offers its spectacular model I see 2 as part of the subscription to Gemini Advanced. Hello, Gemini Advanced. When it appeared on the scene I see 2 could only be used through the VERTEX AI and Videofx platforms, but the scope of both proposals was limited and was intended for a more expert audience. Now this model reaches Gemini Advanced, which allows you to transform our text prompts into dynamic videos. Interestingly, the option that now comes to Gemini Advanced It is available for weeks on the Spanish Freepik platformwhich was the first to offer that generation of ia videos using this same model. Eight seconds of artificial creativity. The model, created by DEEPMIND, is available as one more of the options of the GEMINI models drop -down menu. If we use it, we can generate an eight -second video clip with 720p resolution, MP4 format and 16: 9 appearance ratio. In Google they point out that there is a monthly limit for the number of videos that each Gemini Advanced user can create, but do not indicate which, only that we will receive a warning when we approach that limit. A text prompt is enough. To create videos with Gemini we will only have to describe the scene – as always, the details will help create it with greater loyalty – and Gemini will be responsible for materializing that idea and turning it into a video generated by AI. To conquer the Internet. In Google they also wanted to convert these videos into content that can be shared easy and quickly. Thus, it is enough to choose any of the videos that we have generated and then select the option “Share” and be able to upload it to platforms such as Tiktok or YouTube Shorts. Flood of videos from AI in view. We could already live how the phenomenon of the Image ghiblation He won the Internet, and AI models have shown that this type of uses are those that attract the general public at least temporarily. The images generated by AI are already everywhere and are flooding the Internet, but now we face that with the video generated by AI. That Google bets on this type of content and invites you to share it without tapujos is a declaration of forceful intent. The video generated by AI remains for those who pay. The AI ​​models to generate images have long offered their options to users even in free services —Chatgpt and Gemini do it – although with limitations. With the video at the moment that does not happen, and so much Sora as Runway Or now I see 2 are oriented to users who pay for this intensive use of resources to generate these videos. Already available, Spain included. The new option for generating videos in Gemini through View 2 begins to gradually deploy from today for Gemini Advanced subscribers worldwide, including Spain. We can write our Prompts in Spanish as well, which makes Gemini more and more versatile to be able to generate both text and images and video (for Gemini Advanced subscribers, we insist). Water brand in each frame. To avoid bad uses of this tool, Gemini can refuse to create some videos that are contrary to Google’s use policies. In addition, all the videos generated with I see 2 include a digital water mark embedded in each frame Thanks to Synthid technology. Whisk, the other option. I see 2 too will be available through whiskan experimental platform of AI that is not available in Spain. With it the advantage is that not only prompts of text are accepted, but also starting images that then serve as base frames for the rest of the animation. Thus, choosing a Studio Ghibli style frame makes us obtain an eight -second miniClip that also mimics that style, as Google shows in its promotional videos. The Whisk Animate function based on VI 2 is available from today for the subscribers of the Google One Premium Plan in various countries of the world, although for the moment not in Spain. Image | Google In Xataka | The Spanish Startup Freepik is already one of the most important ‘success’ in the history of Spain after being bought by the EQT fund

The United States has tired of the monopolies of great technological ones. And wants to start “chop them” with goal

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The United States turned a blind eye with its great technological for years. He did not pay too much attention to whether they abused their privilege position or had monopolistic and anti -competitive behaviors, Something that was pursued by the European Union. That has changed, and we are seeing how one after another the Big Tech are being scrutinized in the American judicial courts. Not only that: the threat to those giants is to finish chopped. FTC against goal. The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) trial of the United States began yesterday, and for two months it will try to decide whether the company created by Mark Zuckerberg is a monopoly in the “personal social media services market” market. The consequences can be huge for the goal, which could be forced to divide into several companies. Zuckerberg on the stage. As they point out In The New York TimesMark Zuckerberg came yesterday as a witness to defend “his social media empire.” The FTC lawyers showed several emails in which they raised their argument: what a target “illegally cemented a social networks monopoly by acquiring Instagram and goal when they were small startups.” Zuckerberg made it clear in this Email of April 2012. Better buy than to compete. Source: Big Tech on Trial. If it is a threat to your domain, buy it. The Tactics of the FTC lawyers is to demonstrate that goal used their privilege position to buy companies that could represent a threat in the future. It is the strategy that Some call (rightly) “Better buy than to compete.” To those accusations Zuckerberg replied saying that they ended up investing a lot of money in them after buying them, but doing so they managed not only to reinforce their dominant position, but to eliminate those threats that Instagram or WhatsApp raised. The FTC proposes to chop target. If the government wins the trial, they point out on the Times, the FTC probably asks for the goal to divide into several parts. Thus, Instagram and WhatsApp could be independent companies that would compete with each other with Facebook, or at least that would be the intention of the government. Too much power. Thus, the government must demonstrate that goal would not have had the same success without those acquisitions. It is something really complicated, but this is part of the effort of recent years to try to mitigate the enormous power that technological giants have. These privilege positions allow these companies to clearly influence the exchange of ideas, entertainment and of course political debate. A peculiar judge. The case is chaired by Judge James Boasberg, 62, who already faced a Trump decision in a previous case but that above all attracts attention by a choice: he affirms that he has never used the goal applications, although he is familiar with Facebook Live, which has been used in some criminal cases. Google is in the same. Last summer, federal judge Amit Mehta pronounced a few words that were not evident were less important: “Google is a monopoly“. And threat of “chopstick”Fines do not seem to function as punishment for these types of companies, and for years another option than politicians has been considered Like Senator Warren They defend to act against the Big Tech: chop them. In the case of Google, the sentence could force Alphabet, the matrix, to get rid of Chrome and even Android. Apple, another of the objectives. In March 2024 the Department of Defense (DOJ) accused Apple of being a monopoly and to close the iPhone and iOS to the competitors. The United States followed the steps of Europe, although in this case, which has not yet concluded, a company’s split was not raised. Amazon is a monopoly. Years before the US Congress has already concluded that Amazon was a monopoly in the field of electronic commerce. The long investigation ended with A document of almost 500 pages, but had no specific consequences beyond an attempt to reform legislation in this regard. The US follows the EU wake. For years the European Union has been the nemesis of the large technological companies of the US, which it has stopped with fines and sentences that punished anti -competitive practices. We saw it a few months ago when Meta received A fine of almost 800 million euros for one of this type of cases. The new roof of the Big Tech. Microsoft was a clear objective of the European Commission at the beginning of the century, and since then the antitrust cases They have happened constantly, as companies such as Google either Apple. In the US, such issues seemed to be in the background, but from a time to this part of the US justice It has become very serious With these companies, as we have been able to check with Amazon, Apple, Google and now Meta. Image | Goal In Xataka | A 1.3 million rolex and a brilliant suit: the new Mark Zuckerberg has celebrated his wife’s birthday

You will start adjusting your template, according to Business Insider

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Although the figures registered in 2022, 2023 or 2024, years in which each round of layoffs are not being reached segated thousands of jobs. According to The portal Layoff.fyi,The great technology have fired 23,505 employees in what we have been. The most recurring reason: the Restructuring of the departments To gain agility. According to Published information by Business InsiderMicrosoft would be considering a New round of layoffs They aim to reduce the number of intermediate and management positions, as well as Posts “No coding“. That is, positions not directly involved with software development. Programmers are not the objective Anonymous sources close to Microsoft assured the American media that the technology prepares Another round of layoffs that could be executed next May, but do not provide a specific figure of the number of employees that will be affected by the measure. The spokesmen of the company consulted by the medium have declined to comment. According to what is published, the adjustments that are coming will be focused on the intermediate controls and team managers, as well as in DEVELOPED DEVELOPMENT DEPARTMENTS Software direct. This includes commercial, human resources and managers departments. Microsoft already carried out layoffs at the beginning of the year. But unlike that, the new round would not have the objective Like Google and Amazon. Less bureaucracy and more agile teams Charlie Bell, co -founder of Amazon Web Service and current Chief of Security of Microsoft, could have brought from Amazon this ratios system. Its objective is to redirect the maximum of Personnel resources to the development area To step on the accelerator in matters such as AI or the creation of new software solutions to put back to Microsoft in the AI ​​race. Applying this strategy, Microsoft would be looking for an infrastructure with development equipment with less bureaucratic obstacles in the command chain and more dynamic reducing the number of department managers. Hence, the main objective is not to reduce the template in general, but in specific positions. According to sources of Business Insiderthe department managed by Charlie Bell has a ratio of 5.5 programmers for each manager, when the objective is to achieve a proportion of 10 to 1. This strategy is slightly different from that adopted by technological ones as a goal, which in its last round of layoffs hardened the performance scales, which served as an excuse for dismiss 5% of your workforceincluding in that list many software engineers that had to date had good grades. However, although programmers are not the objective priority in this personnel cut, Microsoft could take the opportunity to say goodbye to some employees (including programmers) that have a “impact 80” or lower performance rating for two consecutive years. The company establishes a 200 scale, in which 100 would be an average yield. Therefore, a programmer with a qualification of 80 would be yielding below the measure and could be one of the names that go in The next list of layoffs, Although your profile is development. In Xataka | “In a year or two code editors will not exist”: four programmers explain the Vibe Coding revolution Image | Microsoft

Lack of motivation is a problem for productivity. The trick to avoid it is simple according to science: start

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Complete your goals and be more efficient with your time, both work and personal, may seem a complicated challenge, especially when procrastination is An incombustible threat that gets in your path. Use small tricks for Encourage your motivation which serves as gasoline for Maintain productivity You can make a big difference in how you face your daily tasks. These are four strategies that can help you maintain your motivation and prevent distractions from moving away from your goals. Completing tasks is already a motivation for your brain According to Manu KapurProfessor of Learning Sciences and Higher Education at the ETH of Zurich and author of ‘PRODUCTIVE FAILURE‘, “We like to close paths. We like to finish what we start. In fact, we have a strong affective impact by completing what we have worked in “, He countedProfessor a Fastcompany. This is corroborated by Zeigarnik Bluma Studies In 1927, which gave rise to the call Zeigarnik effect A condition of the brain that prioritizes the retention of that information you need to complete a certain task. On the other hand, Maria Ovsiankina complemented Zeigarnik’s investigations in 1928 demonstratingThe natural tendency of the brain to finish those tasks that you have already started, Even when it is not mandatory to do so. He does it for an unstoppable need to close a door that was kept open. Therefore, one of the Keys to maintain motivation To complete the tasks it is simply starting them. Take the first step. This is what Mel Robbins, speaker, creator of the podcast The Mel Robbins Podcast and author of the book ‘THE POWER OF THE 5 SECONDS: Be brave on a day to day and transform your life‘called in Your Ted talk“Activation energy”. According to Robbins, the greatest ally for procrastination is immobility. Once You dedicate two minutes to a taskthe brain itself finds tools to stay in it until you finish it. 1- Divide tasks One of the reasons why procrastine and the motivation to face tasks is lost is the overwhelming feeling that The task is too big. The solution could not be simpler: divide it into smaller and more manageable tasks. This approach uses what Psychology experts Teresa M. Amabile and Steve J. Kramer have called “effect of progress.” In their research they analyzed thousands of employee labor newspapers and found that progress, even incremental, in their tasks is the most important factor to maintain labor motivation. Every little achievement achieved release dopamine in the brainwhich activates a sense of reward, thus increasing the levels of motivation. Therefore, these completed tasks have a positive effect on emotional state and motivation, which increases productivity and commitment. Amabile and Kramer’s studies are the key that demonstrates the importance of dividing large goals into small steps to promote a constant sensation of progress. 2- Look back helps continue If the task is longer than expected and you see that your motivation begins to falter, Kapur recommends Change the work perspective That you have to do, on the path you have already traveled. “If you are very far from your goal of swimming 20 lengths, you can say: ‘I came to swim a long one. I have already made five more.’ This system is known as the gradient effect of the objective, and is a concept in psychology and motivation that describes how people tend to increase their effort and motivation as they come to achieve a goal. This phenomenon was initially studied by the Psychologist Clark L. Hull In 1932 and is widely applied to areas such as human behavior, marketing, productivity and personal goals. A 2006 study Made by Kivetz, Urmininsky, and Zheng for the field of neuromarketing, revealed how consumers accelerated their purchases to complete rewards programs. In addition, research in the workplace have shown that, when employees come to complete a project, Its approach and productivity tends to increase. Especially when you are at the beginning of the task, you can fall into the trap of looking towards an objective that obviously still remains far. That perspective acts as a brake for the first advice we gave you, so, to mitigate it, it is much more motivating to take a look at all the work you have already done and put it in value, in front of which it still remains to be done. 3- The fallacy of the sunk cost Have you ever continued seeing a mediocre series or reading a book just because you have already started? Is what is considered Sunk cost fallacywidely cognitive bias studied in psychology and behavioral economy. It refers to the human tendency to persist in a decision, activity or investment simply because we have already dedicated time, money or effort, even when your continuation It is not rational and leads to losses additional Now imagine that, after many years of study, dedication and efforts, you are in a job that is not what you expected and It bores you tremendously. The fallacy of the sunk cost can make you believe that, since you have dedicated so much effort and dedication, you will not change work area to something that, perhaps, motivates you much more. As his own name says, it is a fallacy. The “sunken cost” that represents the training or work done to reach your position is not something that is going to be lost, but adds points to your personal account as an experience, skills and knowledge that can be used in any other sector. “Each recognition is valued and the effort is celebrated. The student realizes that it does not start from scratch, he has relevant previous knowledge, but that they need to be activated, extracted and registered in his mental progress,” says Professor Kapur. 4- The final sprint Have you wondered how a marathon corridor, after having given everything for more than 42 km gets enough energy to tighten the rhythm in the last meters before the goal? It is the power of motivation that drives the brain to end … Read more

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If you live in Spain and you have a compatible device, from today you can start using Apple Intelligence in Spanish, without installing developing versions. Apple’s artificial intelligence system lands in our language and in the European Union, and does it one day earlier. Although the company had announced that the deployment would begin in April, the activation has started this Monday, March 31 with the launch of iOS 18.4, Ipados 18.4 and Macos Sequoia 15.4. Now, we can use the tools that debuted in the United States in October last year. Smart writing, Genmoji, Siri improved and more Apple’s response to the rise of artificial intelligence after the launch of Chatgpt in November 2022 arrives with a variety of novelties. Some are already available, while others remain in development and should arrive with future software updates. In any case, this system aims to mark a turning point within the company’s ecosystem. Writing tools. One of Apple Intelligence’s key functions are its writing tools. The AI ​​is able to review our texts and generate different versions of the same content. It can be especially useful when we seek to refine a message, such as responding to an important email with the fair words to fulfill its purpose. We can invoke writing tools from almost anywhere where we can introduce text: from mail, telegram, bear or even Word, just press in the text box or touch the Apple Intelligence icon when it appears. Interestingly, in our tests it has not worked in WhatsApp, where Meta has its own AI. Priority notifications. It is no secret: we live surrounded by applications, and many of them saturate us to notifications. Apple has been improving the management of notices with each version of its system, but with Apple Intelligence it takes one more step with the priority notifications, which place the most relevant at the beginning of the list and in summary format. Can be activated from Settings > Notifications > Prioritize notifications. Priority messages. Something similar occurs with our entrance tray. Now Mail incorporates priority messages, a function that shows in the upper part those emails that care the most. In addition, with a simple touch we can also get a summary of the mail content. How to activate Apple Intelligence in Spanish and Spain Now that Apple Intelligence is already officially available in Spain, it is no longer necessary to use it in English or install beta versions. Starting to explore your functions is very simple: it is enough to update the devices to the most recent version of the system. In the case of the iPhone, it is iOS 18.4; on the iPad, of iPados 18.4; and in the Mac, of Macos Sequoia 15.4.The steps are the usual: On iPhone and iPad: Settings > General > Software update. In Mac: System settings > General > Software update. Once updated, it only remains to be waiting for the language models that support Apple Intelligence. Of course, not all devices are compatible. Apple Intelligence is available only on the iPhone 15 Pro, 15 Pro Max, the entire iPhone 16 range, the iPad Mini with chip A17 PRO, and the iPad and Mac with M1 or higher processor. If you have a previous model, you can install the system update, but Apple Intelligence will not be activated. In development. Images | Apple In Xataka | Apple Intelligence is a “fire” for Apple. The firefighter chosen to turn it off is the chief of the vision pro

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