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Apple has taken a step back with the iPhone 17 Pro. It was necessary to make a leap forward

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Apple has just presented the iPhone 17 PROy, with him, we already have all the letters on the table in terms of high performance processors. The new iPhone sets the soc a19 pro, the Pixel 10 Pro has the G5 tensor and we already knew the Snapdragon 8 Elite of mobiles like the Samsung Galaxy S25 Ultra. Those of the apple carry generations fighting to mark the rhythm in terms of power Thanks to some chips that have less nuclei than those of the competition, but great performance both in CPU and GPU. They are also usually sparse when talking about concrete specifications, such as the frequency of these nuclei, but this year they have been overcome. They have given very few data from the A19 Pro and, nevertheless, They announce how big they are “The most powerful pro models ever created”. The funny thing is that this power of the iPhone 17 Pro can be more marked by the design of the mobile than only by the benefits of the processor itself. Because you don’t have to talk about how premium that is titanium and glass: you have to talk about aluminum. And it makes all the meaning in addition to a great enemy: the covers. THE DELIBLED MYSTERY OF THE A19 PRO Apple is a company that takes great care of communication and does not say a word higher than another without having seriously meditated. Before seeing how they are talking about the power of the new iPhone, let’s see what they wanted to teach the processor. To read something about A19 PRO, you have to go down to the middle of the terminal’s presentation page, where we can see that the soc “It offers the greatest power that an iPhone has had”. On the page characteristicsthey simply detail that it has six CPU nuclei (with two performance and four efficiency), six GPU cores with neuronal accelerators (this is the great novelty of this soc, by the way) and 16 nuclei in its ‘Neural Engine’. Same CPU nuclei and same configuration as the A18 PRO (And that the A17 PRO) and same GPU nuclei, but now each of those nuclei with a support for the locations of the AI ​​at the local level. We have not had the classic “yields x% more than the previous generation, something they detailed before. The only percentage of yield we have had is that of sustained yield 40% better. And this is what must be explained because it is not so much thanks to the A19 Pro … as the design of the iPhone 17 Pro. Steam chamber and aluminum body, performance keys On its website, Apple mentions that “thermal design innovation makes the GPU and CPU achieve up to a 40 % more constant performance“, And all” thanks to their advanced cooling technology and the unibody structure of aluminum “, which has” allowed them to create the most powerful iPhone of all time. “ In the first seconds of the presentation of this model, we saw that Apple focused on showing the new chassis of the iPhone 17 Pro: A unibody body which implies that the sides, the interior and much of what we will have in sight and between hands it has been created from one piece, and not joining several to create the body. It is something that Apple itself has already done in the past and that companies like Tesla, with her gigapressThey also use to build a chassis with the least possible number of pieces. But what attracts attention is the material: aluminum. Apple has a couple of generations selling the idea that titanium and crystal of the iPhone 15 Pro and iPhone 16 Pro It was the culmination of what we could understand as a mobile manufactured with premium materials and … do they return to aluminum after all these years? As paragraphs said: it is the decision that makes sense if they want solve a historical problem. Aluminum is a material that is used, next to copper, when creating the dissipators that we have in consoles, computers and other devices that generate heat. He is a great driver, so the heat of his chips is easily transferred to aluminum and, from there, to the environment, helping to refrigerate the circuitry. Titanium and, above all, crystal … are not great heat drivers. It depends on many factors such as alloy and thickness, but it is estimated that thermal conductivity, in watts per meter and Kelvin, of the three materials is as follows: As I say, it is a measure that depends, but w/mk above or down, it is evident that aluminum is much better dissipating the heat than the other two materials. But if the iPhone 17 pro were only aluminum, it would be uncomfortable in the hand under heavy tasks (or recording video, that there is no need to render something with the iPhone so that TEMPERATE TEMPERATE). That’s where Apple’s other great rectification comes into play: a dissipation system at the height. Last year We already saw that Apple incorporated a structure of graphite to drive the heat of the processor and distribute it better for the rear of the phone to prevent it from concentrating on a single point. It was something necessary, but we also commented that it might not be enough. Thermal strangulation tests, as evidenced: When the iPhone is demanded, it is heated and the SOC, to protect itself, enters what we know as Throttling: its frequency – and performance – low to heat less. When the iPhone returns to normal temperature, the frequency of the processor increases automatically. This generation, finally, have been given and accepted reality, incorporating a rumored steam camerawhich is one of the most advanced systems to dissipate heat. This mechanism It uses a metallic duct full of a low pressure fluid that, when changing state between liquid and vapor, transfers heat to reduce the device temperature. That is why Apple, both in the presentation … Read more

China is no longer made up of moving away from Nvidia. His next step is the heart of the AI ​​with a system that breaks molds

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In 2017, the Paper “Attention is all you need”Google changed the technical basis of language generation: the Transformers They allowed to process long sequences in parallel and climb models to sizes that were previously unfeasible. That climbing route has driven architectures such as GPT and Bert and has converted self -how The central piece of generative AI Contemporary. But this new approach was accompanied by growing costs in memory and energy when the context lengthens, a limitation that has motivated research to develop alternatives. Spikingbrain-1.0 aims to break molds. Of the “attention is all you need” to the brain: the new commitment to break limits in the A team from the Chinese Academy of Sciences Automation Institute He has just presented Spikingbrain-1.0. We are talking about a family of spiky models aimed at reducing data and computation necessary for tasks with very long contexts. The experts propose two approaches: Spikingbrain-7B, of linear architecture focused on efficiency, and spikingbrain-76b, which combines linear attention with Mixture of Experts (MOE) mechanisms of greater capacity. The authors detail that much of the development and the tests were carried out in clusters of GPU Metax C550, with libraries and operators specifically designed for that platform. This makes the project not only a promising advance at the software level, but also a demonstration of own hardware capabilities. An especially relevant aspect if China’s effort is taken into account for reducing his dependence on Nvidia, A strategy that we already saw reflected with Depseek 3.1. Spikingbrain-1.0 is directly inspired by how our brain works. Instead of having neurons that are always “burning” by calculating numbers, uses spiky neurons: units that accumulate signals until they exceed a threshold and trigger a peak (spike). Between peak and peak they do nothing, which saves operations and, in theory, energy. The key is that not only does it matter how many peaks there are, but when they occur: the exact moment and the order of these peaks carry information, as in the brain. In order for this design to work with the current ecosystem, the team developed methods that convert traditional self -acting blocks into linear versions, easier to integrate into its spiky system, and created a kind of “virtual time” that simulates temporal processes without stopping the yield in GPU. In addition, the Spikingbrain-76B version includes Mixture of Experts (MOE), a system that “awakens” only to certain submodos when we are needed, which we have also seen in GPT-4O and GPT-5. The authors suggest applications where the context length is decisive: analysis of large legal files, complete medical records, DNA sequencing and massive experimental data sets in high energy physics, among others. That lace appears reasoned in the document: if the architecture maintains efficiency in contexts of millions of tokens, would reduce costs and open possibilities in domains today limited by access to very expensive computer infrastructure. But validation in real environments is pending outside the laboratory. The team The code of 7,000 million parameters has released in Github next to a detailed technical report. It also offers a web interface similar to chatgpt to interact with the modelwhich according to the authors are deployed entirely in national hardware. Access, however, is limited to Chinesewhich complicates its use outside that ecosystem. The proposal is ambitious, but its true scope will depend on the community to reproduce the results and make comparisons in homogeneous environments that evaluate precision, latencies and energy consumption in real conditions. Images | Xataka with Gemini 2.5 | ABODI VESAKARAN In Xataka | Openai believes having discovered why the IAS hallucinates: they don’t know how to say “I don’t know”

Windows 10 is one step away from running out of support. Almost half of the world’s computers continue to trust him, even more

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In just over 40 days, Windows 10 will stop receiving patches and security updates. Microsoft will thus mark the end of support for an operating system that still Almost half of the global market dominates (In Spain, 54%). Windows 11 It has been in the market for several years, but the change has been slower than expected. The countdown is still underway And millions of users apparently have not yet decided how to face the jump before October arrives, although those willing to pay may keep it with extra support. What real options now has the standard user The end of support does not mean that your computer stops working, but it is more exposed. Microsoft offers three main outputs: Make the leap to Windows 11. If your PC has the necessary hardware, the update is free and guarantees updates and new functions. The equipment that does not meet requirements will have to be renewed to continue protected. Pay for extended updates (ESU). With this plan they continue to receive security patches paying an annual fee. It is designed to win margin, not to stay indefinitely in Windows 10. Keep Windows 10 or explore alternatives. Install Linux or using the system without support in controlled environments is possible, but requires assuming risks and planning in the medium term. Compare the situation of Windows 11 with that of its predecessors helps to understand if this slow change is an exception or simply history that is repeated. According to statistaat three years and ten months of life Windows 11 is around 49% of the global market. Windows 10, at that same age, had reached about 57%, and Windows 7 moved in even higher figures, around 61%. At the opposite end, Windows 8.1 barely reached 10%, a reflection of his warm welcome. These data draw a clear pattern: Windows 11 progresses more slowly than its successful predecessors, but leads widely against Windows 10. Everything indicates that the hardware barrier, which leaves millions of old teams out, explains a good part of this rhythm. It is not that users resist by custom, but that the jump to the new generation implies more effort than ever, and that shows in global and European figures. The slow advance of Windows 11 is better understood when looking at the requirements imposed: TPM 2.0 and a closed list of processors leave out millions of computers that were runnings 10 without problems before. For many users, update implies renewing the equipment, and that slows the transition. There are unofficial methods to install Windows 11 on non -compatible PC, But doing so entails risks. The result is a slower adoption and a Windows 10 that is still very alive at the doors of its end. Microsoft Operating Systems Market share at a global level Europe and Spain advance to another rhythm. While the global average shows that Windows 11 is already present in almost half of the teams, in the old continent Windows 10 maintains more than 53% quota and Windows 11 is around 43.9%. Spain follows that same pattern (54% in Windows 10 and 42.61% in Windows 11), with practically traced figures. ANDThe result is a photograph other than the global: Here the version jump progresses more slowly and Windows 10 is still the protagonist at the doors of its support end. Microsoft operating systems market share in Spain Update resistance is not unpublished either, although the current context has nuances. Windows 7 reached its support end in January 2020 with a still significant presence, around 27% of the global market, but already surpassed long by Windows 10. Today the situation is different: Windows 11 leads, but Windows 10 retains almost half of the teams, just over a month of running out of patches and official support. Images | Microsoft In Xataka | If you have an old PC, there is an effective alternative against the requirements of Windows 11 and the Bloatware: Flyoobe works

Google’s new AI generates interactive worlds from a prompt. Deepmind believes it is a step to get the AGI

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The Google Deepmind team has announced its new AI model to generate interactive worlds. At the end of last year We were surprised with what Genie could do 2 And the new version is an important leap, one that for Google is an advance in the creation of the General Artificial Intelligence or AGIthat which can match the abilities of the best human. Genie 3. It is the new World Model o Deepmind world model. Allows to create interactive worlds for which we can explore, all from a Prompt of text. The previous model was very limited and could only be used for a few seconds, but with Genie 3 Deepmind promises that it can be explored for “several minutes.” In addition, the resolution has improved at 720p to 24FPS. The model is based on Genie 2 and I see 3. It has memory. It is the most important improvement of the new model. The world is generated through ia as we explore it, but if we turn around and look at something we had already seen, it remains the same. We can also change something, such as painting on a wall, and that is kept as we leave it all the time. This did not happen in previous versions and its creators say they did not explicitly schedule it to do that. As explained in an article in TechcrunchGenie 3 is able to remember what he has already generated to train himself, in this way he learns how the world and his physical works. Interactive. It also emphasizes that events can be added with Prompts additional In his article, Deepmind puts several interactive examples such as a meadow in which we can choose if a tractor, a bear, a horse or hot air balloons will appear. They call it “promptable World Events” and also allows you to change aspects such as weather. Why is it important. Worlds models are useful in different scenarios such as the creation of scenarios for real -time games, in education or in the training of AI agents. Google points to it in its blog as a key step to reach the AGI, that upper artificial intelligence that so many companies are trying to get as soon as possible. These worlds can be used as a training field for other AI, also including robots, cases in which simulating real scenarios is a challenge. In the presentation, the Deepmind team explained how they put an agent in a stage that simulated a warehouse and asked him to approach certain elements, such as a green garbage cube. In all the tests he achieved, according to the Deepmind team “the fact that (the agent) is able to achieve this is because Genie 3 remains coherent.” The competition. The largest IA competition, at least at the level of products for the end user, we see it in the chatbots and, to a lesser extent, in video or audio generators. The world models are less popular among the public and there is not a great competition. Nvidia presented cosmos at the beginning of the year And there are some companies like World Labs They offer similar proposals. We would like to finish this text with a link so you can try it, but Genie 3 is only available in Beta for a very limited group of academics. Image | Deepmind In Xataka | Some researchers created a company where all employees were AI agents. They did not make a quarter of the work

It is a first step to understand why we exist

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The most elementary question that human beings ask ourselves since we are here is simply: why do we exist? According to the best theories about the origin of the universe, We should not be here. The Big Bang should have created identical amounts of matter and antimatter, which would have annihilated each other in an energy flash, leaving an empty cosmos. And yet, here we are, in a universe made of matter. Short. The key to our existence lies in a subtle asymmetry, a small trap in the laws of physics that favored matter over antimatter. Now, the CERN LHCB team has announced the first observation of this asymmetry in the bariones, the particles that make up everything we see: stars, planets and ourselves. It is a milestone that we had been waiting for decades, and that after its Publication in Nature magazine Open a new and fascinating way to solve the mystery of our own existence. The enigma of the material universe. The Soviet physicist Andréi Sájarov saw it clear in 1967. For the matter to prevail above the antimatter after the Big Bang (so that a universe like ours was born, in short) three conditions should be met, including the violation of the load-partner symmetry. Load symmetry (c) means that if you change a particle for its antiparticle (for example, an electron for a positron), physical laws should not change. Parity symmetry (P) is like looking at the process in a real mirror, investing space coordinates. Combined symmetry load-partity (CP) implies that a physical process is indistinguishable from its “antimatter version” in the mirror. If the CP symmetry were perfect, the balance between matter and antimatter would never have inclined. CP symmetry violation means that the cosmic mirror is slightly broken. Subject and antimatter do not behave exactly as specular reflexes. The fundamental piece that was missing. This phenomenon had already been observed for the first time in 1964 in particles called inns, formed by a quark and an antiquark. But there was a key piece of puzzle: it had never been detected in the bariones, formed by three quarks. It was a key piece because ourselves are barionic matter: the protons and neutrons that constitute us are bariones. An imperfect reflex. The CERN LHCB team, one of the great detectors of the great Hadron collider, specializes in studying particles that contain a type of heavy quark called “Beauty” or “Bottom”, in which the effects of the CP violation are expected to be more pronounced. For this investigation, physicists focused on a specific particle: the Lambda B zero (λb0) barion, a kind of heavy cousin of the proton. Scientists analyzed billions of collisions In data from 2011 to 2018observing how this particle disintegrated in four lighter: a proton, a kaon and two pions (λb0 → pk –π+π−). The key to the experiment was to compare the rate of this disintegration with that of its antimatter twin, the disintegration of the anti-barion lambda b zero (λˉb0 → pˉ k+π-π+). If the CP symmetry were perfect, both disintegrations would occur with the same frequency. But it is not so. The LHCB team measured a clear and statistically robust difference. Are we facing new physics? The results have a statistical significance of 5.2 sigmas. In particle physics, an observation with more than 5 sigmas is considered a full -fledged discovery. It is the first time that a barion and its antibarion are observed do not behave identically. The mirror is broken, also for particles that form the tangible world. This discovery is, in the first place, a spectacular confirmation of the standard particle physics model. This model, our most complete theory on the subject, predicts that CP violation must occur in both inns and bariones. The fact that it is finally seen in barions reinforces our current understanding of physics. However, and here comes the most exciting, it is also the beginning of a new chapter. The observed violation is insufficient to explain the enormous mastery of the matter we see in the cosmos. There must be Another source of asymmetrysomething that the standard model does not contemplate. Physicists have confirmed that the universe does not deal equal to matter and barionic antimatter, but hunt continues. Image | Cern In Xataka | You can now download the 800 TB of information that the CERN has just released. They are a treasure of particle physics

In full European rearme, Belgium has just expanded his f-35 fighter request. The next step is much more ambitious

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In full European rearme, not exempt from obstaclesBelgium will expand your request for F-35 With eleven new units. Thus adds to other allies such as the United Kingdom, who continue to bet on the American hunting Despite the problems that its deployment has raised. The current geopolitical context has once again placed aerial superiority in the center of the strategic board. Belgium had already commissioned 34 F-35 in 2018 With a clear objective: replace its aging F-16 fleet, a hunt that has been in service decades. At that time, the Belgian government opted for the American model against other proposals such as the Eurofighteralleging interoperability reasons, costs throughout the life cycle and compatibility with NATO nuclear weapons. Why the F-35 is the option that Belgium continues to see how more solid To date, eight units have been delivered, All in US baseswhere they serve as a training platform for the first Belgian pilots. The new order will raise the total figure to 45, in a decision framed in the reinforcement of the military budget agreed by the current government, that has committed to achieve 2% of GDP in defense in 2025 and climb up to 2.5% in the following decade. The investment planned for this extension amounts to about 1.6 billion euros, According to the strategic vision document. Although the F-16 have been updated over the years-and remain operational in several countries-it is a fourth generation platform, without furtive abilities and with less integrated sensors. They are versatile, reliable and relatively economic fighters, but belong to another era. In some scenarios, the technological difference with F-35 is abysmal. The new Lockheed Martin hunt offers a poaching, fusion of real -time sensors, advanced electronic warfacities and, above all, It is certified to carry American nuclear armament. Beyond conventional combat, this renewal of the fleet has deep strategic implications. Belgium is one of the European countries that actively participates in the strategy of NATO nuclear deterrence. To fulfill that paper, you need compatible aircraft with nuclear pumps that it is believed that they are stored in the base of Kleine Brogel. The current F-16 are certified for that mission, and the F-35 not only inherits that function, but reinforces it with more stealthy and precise technology. The delivery calendar also imposes its own limits. According to VRTthe Lockheed Martin production line is practically saturated, and the first additional fighters will not arrive until after 2033. The decision to expand the fleet, in that sense, is also a long -term commitment: future governments may resume the issue and add more units if the budgetary conditions allow it. Apart from F-35, Belgium seeks to gain weight in the air defense of the continent. In parallel to this acquisition, he has reserved 300 million euros to fully integrate into the second phase of the FCAS, The New Generation European Hunting Program. The objective is to be at the table where the technological standards of the next decades are defined, without renouncing the US fleet. On the horizon, a future coexistence is even contemplated between the F-35 and the plane that emerges from the FCAS after 2040, if the staff and the budget allow it. Images | US Air Force (1, 2, 3) In Xataka | China will need 9,000 new airplanes in the coming years. And a manufacturer takes the lead to Boeing: Airbus

The ‘in vitro’ fertilization has taken a surprising step using mitochondrial DNA

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A child, three parents. It might seem science fiction, but it is already a reality. It is a reality that It started a decade agowith the approval in the United Kingdom of a novel technique that allowed Enter genetic information of a third person in a fertilization process In vitro Eight births. The British team to launch this technique has published the results Obtained from monitoring nine babies born after a fertilization process In vitro. A process with an important peculiarity: the introduction of mitochondrial DNA from a donor. Mitochondrial diseases. To understand the scope of the new procedure, we have to understand the reason that led to the development of this technique, avoid the transmission of mitochondrial DNA diseases. A problem that is estimated affects about 5,000 births per year. The mitochondria is a part of the cell responsible for producing energy but also has a DNA segment which is inherited matrilinearly. This matrilinear transmission can only be inherited by the mother, although they can affect people of any sex. This DNA can present harmful mutations that usually affect the proper functioning of this intracellular “energy” central “, which derives in diseases that manifest especially in those tissues that require the most energy, such as those of the heart or the brain. We do not have a cure for these diseases, but now we have a way to cut its transmission. Pronuclear transfer. The technique It is called pronuclear transfer And, according to the team that has launched it, it is done after the fertilization of the ovule, and consists in transplanting the nuclear genome of the ovule with the mutation to a new donor ovule, this with the desired mitochondrial DNA. The resulting cell has the parents’ nuclear DNA but the mitochondrial DNA of the donor parent. Studying the technique. The details of the study were described through two articles published in the magazine New England Journal of Medicine. The first of them He focused on studying the success of the technique itself. The technique did not eliminate the entire original mitochondrial DNA since in the core extraction process, part of this DNA was also captured and introduced into the new cell. According to the team, its presence in the neonate blood ranged between undetectable levels up to 16%. “The findings give rise to optimism. However, research to better understand the limitations of mitochondrial donation technologies will be essential to improve treatment results,” explained in a press release Mary Herbert, who led this part of the study. Healthy babies. He Second study He focused on clinical results, both on mothers and babies. During pregnancies only a complication was detected in one of them (hyperlipidemiaan excess of blood lipids), which responded to the prescribed treatment. The eight babies were born healthy and their development was normal during the study period, with most babies without health problems and the rest with mild problems that the team considers not related to the donation process. Regarding the success of the process, the team did not detect mitocondrial DNA in five of the eight babies, and the mutations that detected in the remaining three were maintained below 20%, which is far from the limit of 80% from which problems could begin to occur. The monitoring of these cases is still necessary to better know the evolution of each case. Ethical considerations. This monitoring will be necessary to clear doubts about the possible long -term impacts of this technique, a key consideration in the ethical discussion around the procedure. The United Kingdom approved this technique in 2015, but there are still many countries that have not legislated in this direction. “The study also raises ethical and scientific questions. The combination of nuclear and mitochondrial DNA of different people could have long -term effects still unknown,” indicated a Science Media Center (SMC) Rocío Núñez Calonge, scientific director of the International UR Group and coordinator of the Ethics Group of the Spanish Fertility Society. And in Spain? Spain would remain in a legal limbo, without clear legislation in this regard, experts explain. “In Spain, our (…) (Law) on assisted human reproduction techniques, does not explicitly refer to this technique (which did not exist when this legislation was approved) by what Sensu stricto The procedure would not be expressly prohibited or explicitly authorized in our country. Essentially it is not regulated. The legal and ethical doubts that subsist have prevented, so far, that the technique of the three parents is applied in Spain ”, explained to SMC Lluís Montoliu, researcher at the National Biotechnology Center (CNB-CSIC) and Ciberer -iscii. In Xataka | 50 years ago we discovered people whose blood did not fit into conventional types. We have just discovered why Image | Newcastle University / Nathan Dumlao

The artificial skin that feels heat and cuts is already real. It is the first big step for robots to look more like us

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Can a robotic hand like that of Optimus or that of 1x get to feel like ours? Researchers at the University of Cambridge and the University College London believe they have taken an important step in that direction. They have developed one Artificial skin Composed of a single flexible material, capable of detecting temperature, pressure, cuts and multiple simultaneous touches. All without rigid layers or sensors distributed inside. And the most promising, according to its creators, is that it can adapt to complex forms and promises a relatively simple manufacturing process: it is enough to melt it, pour it into a silicone mold, remove the internal positive and place it as a glove on a robotic structure, as shown in This demonstrative video. The nucleus of this technology is a driver hydrogel that, when combined with electric impedance (EIT) tomography, allows you to continuously register what happens on its surface. When a stimulus occurs – contract, heat or pressure – the fields are altered. The system detects not only the type of stimulus, but also its location and environmental conditions. All this is interpreted through automatic learning, with latencies that depend on the number of active channels, explain in the article published in Science Robotics. A soft membrane, millions of data The best example of the system is a robotic hand of real size, hollow inside, fully covered with this artificial skin. Instead of distributed sensors, use exclusively 32 electrodes placed on the wrist. This configuration was sufficient to extract more than 1.7 million information channels, derived from 863,040 different combinations. During the tests, the hand was exposed to different stimuli: a human finger, a thermal probe, the impact of a scalpel. In all cases it was able to distinguish the type of interaction and locate it with an average precision of about 25 millimeters above its entire surface. The interesting thing is that a sensor is not necessary for each type of stimulus. The membrane itself reacts differently depending on the intensity or nature of the contact, and it is the model of the one that identifies the most relevant signal between hundreds of thousands of possibilities. In addition to touch, this skin is able to monitor the environment. During a 100 -hour test, the system registered variations between 19 and 25 ° C and between 38 and 72% relative humidity, as details The official note of the University of Cambridge. All this with a design without rigid components, which facilitates its integration into Prosthesis, technical clothing, control surfaces or collaborative robots. Applications ranging from rehabilitation and remote exploration to the automobile sector. Of course, this development does not start from zero. In recent years we have seen other proposals that seek to endow robot sensitivity, such as This synthetic skin capable of replicating pain, This other that presumes to approach human skin as never beforeeither A capable of self -backing and recycling. What distinguishes the work of Cambridge and UCL is its radically simplified approach: a single flexible layer, without mechanical components, which centralizes all sensitivity and interprets it by software. Challenges remain in front: improve the resolution in areas far from the electrodes, reinforce the resistance of the long -term hydrogel. But paradigm shift seems to be underway. Everything indicates that it is a matter of time until we see robots not only more advanced in mobility and interaction, but also closer to us in appearance and physical sensitivity. An artificial skin like this opens the door to a new generation of machines that not only execute tasks, but also “feel” the surrounding environment. Even so, we are far from reaching the level of realism that proposes’Detroit: Become Human‘. Images | Cambridge University (1, 2, 3) | Quantic Dream In Xataka | Figure 02 has worked only for an hour. The shocking thing is that your brain already remembers and your hands “feel”

We have found the first narcosubmarino with Starlink. It is a new step in drug logistics

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The drug trafficking industry It has an important challenge that does not go through producing the drug, but to distribute it. Of conventional networks infiltrating the product in commercial vehicles or using ‘mules‘, the drug traffickers have controlled huge fleets of submarines. These craft vehicles baptized as ‘Narcosubmarino’ have experienced a boom In recent years, and the striking thing is that they are updating in terms of technology. So much that a narcosubmarino without a crew that is controlled at a distance, thanks to StarlinkElon Musk’s satellite Internet network. And, obviously, it is a new headache for Maritime authorities. Short. It was a few days ago when Colombia’s Navy reported On a strange finding that made the first week of April: a narcosubmarino ‘stuck’ to a boat that had the capacity to transport ton and average drug. Neither by size nor by capacity was a ship that caught attention, since in recent years the capacity of this type of boats has increased to transport more drugs. What was striking was the antenna in the front. In that area He was A Starlink antenna, Elon Musk’s Internet service for which every time More satellites are displayed To increase global coverage, and we can imagine the usefulness of such a system in the operations that a narcosubmarino can perform. Advanced remote control. No crew was found, so it is speculated that this connection with Starlink would allow new generation drug traffickers operate semi -autonomous. That is, someone on land would perform the functions of remote controller, assuming a huge advantage if the authorities intercept the ship because they would be carried out with the cargo, yes, but not with human operators. Now, apart from logistics advantage and facilities when navigating any type of water thanks to that global satellite connection, the authorities estimate that this technology represents a major challenge for anti -drug forces because it will make them more difficult to track. Narcosubmarine are not real submarines in many cases, but semi -submersible that can escape the ‘vision’ of radars, and without humans inside, they can also go more unnoticed to tracking systems. In addition to the Starlink system, the ship has two cameras, an internal to monitor both the transmission and the engine and an external one for the vision of the trajectory and that the operator can avoid obstacles. Of all sizes. Having caught a narcosubmarino for remote control thanks to Starlink supposes One more step in the drug trafficking network and demonstrates how their vehicles are adapting thanks to the latest technology in order to be more efficient. Because the one seized by the Colombian Navy was empty and estimate that it was a proof unit, but that there is already something like that, surely, it implies that there is more on their way. Because if something is clear, they are investing in the construction of these ships. It is estimated that, in 2009 there were about eight vehicles of this style, a figure that reached the 180 estimated in 2020. Obviously, there are many gray in all this because they are estimates. World Network. Many of those narcosubmarinos are usually precarious ships with a short useful life, but also There are more sophisticated And in recent years we have seen semi -submersible Greater and sophisticatedsome reaching 30 meters long with designs very, very similar to the submarines used by world armies. In fact, a few months ago Colombia’s Navy intercepted A ship that had the Australian or Neozelands coasts as an objective, implying that there is no country that escapes Colombian drug trafficking networks, consolidated as the heart of cocaine world imposing increase in production These last years. As much as it may be, and although it has only been a test, that a narcosubmarino has already caught with Starlink assumes that the drug traffickers are already ‘Armando’ with vehicles capable of operating remotely, even in areas to which the traditional coverage does not reach, with all that it implies. And compared to the first vehicles in the early 90s, It is a huge step and a great challenge for the authorities. Image | Wikideas1 In Xataka | The cartels have a vehicle that seems taken from Mad Max: it is called “Narcotanque” and is a nightmare in Mexico

Lyft, closer to landing in Europe. The platform has taken a key step to buy Freeow from BMW and Mercedes

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Lyft wants to enter Europe and has begun to move. The company has notified the National Commission of Markets and the Competition the purchase of Freeow, the taxi app that until now shared BMW and Mercedes-Benz. The operation, valued at 175 million euros It represents a key movement: if completed, it will allow Lyft to deploy in more than 150 European cities, including Madrid, Berlin and London. Instead of building a network in Europe, it is committed to acquiring a platform that already operates in some of the most important markets on the continent. Freeow not only has a consolidated presence in key cities: it also has local agreements, active fleets and an approach that fits the European ecosystem, more regulated than the American. The operation would allow Lyft to enter with a base already made. The operation is not closed. On July 9, Lyft officially notified the purchase from the National Commission of Markets and Competition (CNMC). With that step the initial phase of the regulatory process in Spain is activated: the agency now has a month to pronounce. If you consider that the operation needs a more detailed analysis, a second phase will be opened that could be lengthened between three and four months, As Europa Press collects. Only after overcoming this process the transaction could be completed. For users, nothing changes for now. But there are clear promises. Both Lyft and Freeow have confirmed that, for the moment, there will be no changes in the experience of use. The app will continue to function as until now. However, in the medium term, improvements such as more consistent prices, faster vehicles and new functions are expected. They are future objectives, even without a concrete date, but that are already in the road map of both companies. The Integration of Freeow would allow him to significantly expand his scope, both in number of cities and in potential volume of users. According to its internal estimates, the total market to which it aspires would reach more than 300,000 million annual journeys, with an expected increase in gross reserves of 1,000 million euros. Freeow does not disappear: he maintains his team, his brand and his local DNA. The agreement contemplates that Freeow retains its current structure. There will be no mergers or rebranding: the brand will remain active and directed by the same team. That continuity is part of the strategic value of the operation, since it allows Lyft to access a consolidated network without altering its internal operation. An agreement that meets two different, but complementary cultures. Lyft arrives with an experience focused on digital platforms and large volume management. Freeow brings the knowledge of the land: relations with fleets, authorities and operators in each city. Both companies assure that it is not an absorption, but a collaboration that aspires to climb what already works, without losing local identity. Images | Lyft/Freeow In Xataka | Europe has denied 1,100 million euros to Spain with a single goal: that we pay more for diesel

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