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Disney needs to solve the greatest crisis in the story of ‘Star Wars’. And Baby Yoda has been clinging to get it

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In Disney they are the first to know that ‘Star Wars‘A considerable identity crisis is going through: the projects that have emerged after the trilogy produced by JJ Abrams have been falling one after another, and since 2019 the franchise does not premiere a new film. However, The Star Wars Celebration That this weekend in Japan has been held, two years after the 2023 in London, has fought to fall that feeling, and has presented a few projects that have new roads of exploitation of the franchise. More than a celebration, a plan has been presented in Japan. What has been presented. The event has served to formalize the return of ‘Star Wars’ to the big screen: the main dishes are, on the one hand,’The Mandalorian and Grogu ‘which will continue the three seasons of the series starring Pedro Pascal and his adorable adopted son Grogu. He adds’ Starfighter ‘, self -clusive film directed by Shawn Levy (‘Deadpool and Wolverine‘) and starring Ryan Gosling. New seasons of ‘have been confirmedAndor‘ and ‘Ahsoka‘And an animated series of Darth Maul. On the horizon, although without date, projects appear as a story about the Jedi origins signed by James Mangold, an adventure by Tika Waititi and the return of King Skywalker. Where do we come from. After Lucasfilm’s purchaseDisney bet strongly with a new trilogy that premiered between 2015 and 2019 and that, although devastated at the box officewith more than 4.4 billion admitted worldwide, The most traditionalist fans did not like to like. The spin-off ‘was only An unexpected batacazo: just 393 million dollars of collection, to which projects canceled in chain followed, including Kevin Feige and Patty Jenkins movies. Series like ‘Andor‘ either ‘Ahsoka‘They achieved the support of criticism and public, but its impact globally was incomparably lower to the movies. And the failure of the Ubisoft ‘video gameStar Wars Outlaws‘He has endorsed that the saga is no longer infallible. The problem of nostalgia. Star Wars’s great dilemma in the Disney era has been his nostalgia addiction and to the Fan Service. Attempts to content the most traditional fans have resulted in products that, or are too conservative, such as the very critical and very unlike ‘The last Jedi’a film capable of being measured in terms of quality with the classics of the franchise, but Densed by fans). The audience has been fragmented: the riskiest projects, such as ‘Andor’, receive praise from critics but They click on a audience and They cost a fortune. What does the new plan intend to solve? The prowned strategy at the Star Wars Celebration is clear: with fans it is not enough to maintain these films and series, such as They have demonstrated ‘Andor’ or ‘Ahsoka’. You have to return to the box office parameters of the films produced by Abrams, that is to say to films-Event that are worldwide phenomena at a mass scale. ‘The Mandalorian and Grogu’ bets on the accessible and charism of its protagonists (remember: Baby Yoda marked Star Wars even Before receiving an official name); And ‘Starfighter’ seeks a broader audience with a story that does not require “doing homework” and resorting to a star like Gosling, oblivious to the usual blockbusters. But will it solve it? Obviously, it is complicated to predict because countless factors come into play. Projects such as the Spin-Offs ‘Solo’ and ‘Rogue One’ had all to win, but they worked with discretion (or directly) at the box office: their problem was, perhaps, the excessive dependence of the Lore Previous, the need to know the long history of the saga. Superficially, it seems that ‘The Mandalorian and Grogu’ and ‘Starfighter’ will circulate in another direction, which could inject the long -awaited revitalization of the franchise. An important property. It must be taken into account, however, that since the purchase of Lucasfilm for 4,050 million dollars, Disney has tripled its investment: the ‘Star Wars’ franchise has generated CERCA of 12,000 million dollars in direct income Until 2024. That income comes from the box office of the films, yes, but also from attraction parks, cruises and, above all, merchandising. However, its profitability cannot be compared to franchises such as ‘Frozen’ or Marvel. Internal earthquakes. In addition, the box office is not the only problem of ‘Star Wars’: Kathleeen Kennedy has started a discreet withdrawal of the Presidency of Lucasfilm and prepares his succession. Although Filoni and Levy’s films are still under their mantle, the announcement of the search for someone who relieves what has been Lucasfilm’s great architect since the purchase of Disney is the best example that things are changing in Disney. Header | Disney In Xataka | Before selling ‘Star Wars’, George Lucas imagined a megalómana series: 10 times more expensive than a saga movie

Bonzibuddy’s story, Windows camouflaged spyware

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If you used a computer in the late 90s or early 2000s, you will surely remember Clippy in Office 97 OA Rover, that animated puppy that appeared in the Windows XP search engine. They were times of sympathetic, colorful, a bit clumsy virtual assistants … and, in general, harmless. But not everyone worked with the same intentions. In The new episode of ‘Xataka presents’ of our YouTube channel We review the curious case of Bonzibuddythat purple monkey -shaped assistant who promised to help you with everyday tasks as you released jokes and read you Correos. “An alleged virtual assistant in the form of a purple monkey who promised to make your life easier,” tell our classmates. But after that harmless appearance something quite different was hidden: “steal information and send it to the Bonzi Software database.” And that was only the beginning: deceptive ads, alterations in the system configuration and a payment version that did not solve precisely anything. “When installing a back door, Bonzi Buddy allowed other malicious programs, such as viruses, will infiltrate the system“, is explained in the video.” In 2014, a YouTuber brought it back in a video where Windows XP destroyed with malicious programs. And suddenly, Bonzi Buddy was famous again, “our teammates point out. What was Bonzibuddy? What happened to its creators? Why in 2014 did it circulate online thanks to a youtuber that decided to test it in an environment full of malware? It is a story that puts many questions on the table. And that says a lot about the time, about how we saw technology … and about what Vulnerable that we were when they introduced us something as fun and harmless. If you want to know how far this peculiar assistant came, you have all the details in our video. Today we have better defenses against malware, since Windows Defender to him Antivirus integrated into macOS, Without forgetting the tools of third parties that work quite effectively. At the time, Bonzibuddy had it much easier to sneak into computers. Its history is still a valid reminder: you never have to lower your guard. Sometimes, malware comes with a smile. Images | Screen capture In Xataka | In 1995, Microsoft believed to have found a way to humanize Windows: it called Bob and ended up being a loud failure In Xataka | Public administrations turn the tortilla: Midni promises to be another success with Midgt and my citizen folder

In 2007, Better Place said to recharge an electric car in five minutes. This is the story of a loud failure

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Nio and Catl have reached an agreement to implement the largest battery exchange network in the world. “The most extensive and advanced,” Catl announced in a statement collected by The avant -garde. The project comes from afar. In 2020Nio already presumed that he could change the battery of his electric cars in three minutes. Since then, we had not known the project beyond In 2022 The electric cars company made noise with this issue. By then, the competition seemed served. The Geely Group, also Chinese, assured that In 2025 5,000 stations would have deployed of battery exchange. But, again, little has been known again on the matter. Until Catl has decided to trust the child project, investing 314 million euros in its battery exchange system. But although they explain that they aspire to have the “most extensive” network, the truth is that no stations numbers data have been provided. However, Nio and Catl’s proposal is not alone. In China, other companies have also tried to standardize this system and Bloomberg He calculated in 2022 that for this year some 26,000 battery exchange stations in the Asian country would have available. It is clear that there is some interest in China in keep investing in the system and technology. However, everything indicates that if there are certain recharge times of byd and are economically viable their stations, A 400 km load in five minutes You can kill the concept. If so, the system would go to a better life. A system that has already been touched almost 20 years ago and that failed irremediably when, ironically, more fault. A little context with a battalion When a person tells me that an electric car does not serve to travel and, above all, he tells me that they will not be in a long time, I usually tell an experience. At the end of 2019 I participated a project to join all the provincial capitals of the Iberian Peninsula by electric car. It was about demonstrating that the network had advanced and that the second generation of Nissan Leaf was a much more capable car. Turning among colleagues, it was late as little as possible. We get it yes, but it is also true that the challenge took us Almost seven days Although we stopped just and necessary to recharge the car. We ate as the car was loaded and slept while the car drank from the plugs. I remember calling a gas station to ask please open a plug even though we arrived after the service station had closed. We had no choice. For Todo Teruel there was only one public charger available. That charger had to open with a key the employees of the gas station. They asked us that at the end we would leave the hidden key. Once the load was finished, Nissan’s electric should have almost 400 kilometers available on a 62 kWh battery. The truth is that we stopped every 200-250 km to take advantage of the fastest part of the recharge unless we would like to sleep in the middle of the trip. Today, in Teruel and its surroundings, there are More than 25 public plugs available according to Electromaps. A few kilometers from the city, next to the highway, one carries 100 kW. Two other closest plugs can load a maximum of 350 kW if your car admits it. That Nissan Leaf, tells us Km77it would have taken 90 minutes to go from 0 to 80% of the battery charge. Today, most cars with 60-70 kWh battery capacity would recover the load up to 80% in about 20 minutes. I count all this battalion because, believe me, if I had had a Better Place battery exchange station on hand, I would have used it. Too bad that when we got into that jaleo, the project had been dead for six years. In just over a five years, the electric car market in Spain has changed completely. And although the recharge network You have to keep improvingright now it is easy to travel to any point in the country if the car has more than 60 kWh battery capacity. The minimum required to travel if we are going to make the recommended stops every two hours or 200 kilometers. What happened to Better Place? We explained all this because it is important to know the context. Having an electric car and traveling with him makes just over a five years ago was a real headache. Now, imagine that you are in 2007 and someone has said that those cars that barely do 200 kilometers in the best case and take a whole night to load are the future. What would you think? You have to look for ways to reduce loading times. And that same idea had Shai Agassi. This Israeli businessman saw that there was a business road. The electric car began to make its way but without recharge points and with times of the same too extensive, the project was unfeasible. He decided that he would create something as simple and as groundbreaking as a battery exchange station. The theory was perfect on paper: you arrive with your car and you don’t have to worry about standing for hours. In a few minutes the car would be ready to travel another 150-200 kilometers. In practice, the car was something like taking it to a wash tunnel. You entered the station after saving a barrier. Inside, The machine extracted the car battery and “sealed” it with another already loaded. An auxiliary space was needed to recharge the batteries that were interspersed. The proposal received immediate support. Different investors came to put 650 million euros in total. In 2013 the company declared bankruptcy after raising just over five million euros. Along the way, yes, I had attracted Renault’s interest. The French company adapted its Renault Fluence to function as an electric car. He put the surname ZE and the car was compatible with the battery … Read more

The European Hera probe has just sent us its first photos for the story: we orbit Mars

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Despite how much we have explored Mars, we had few photos of Deimos, the smallest and distant from its two moons. The European Space Agency has just solved it. Launched October 7, 2024ESA’s hera probe goes towards Dimorfo, the first asteroid diverted by humanity. Understand the effects of historical impact that NASA’s Dart probe achieved In 2022 it will be Europe’s contribution to the International Planetary Defense Mission as we detect new potentially dangerous objects in the Solar System. Before getting to Dído, the binary asteroid system of which Dimorfo is part, the Hera probe has flown Mars to gain speed. The gravitational assistance maneuver It happened last night and it was totally successful: Not only because hera shortened his travel time in several months, saving a crucial amount of fuel, but because he took more than a thousand photos. Deimos and the surface of Mars through the Hara Camera (ESA) Moving at 32,400 km/h with respect to Mars, Hera went to just 5000 km from the red planet, taking advantage of its gravity to gain energy. But also to photograph The moon deams only 1000 km A distance, a historical overflow that was possible thanks to the fact that ESA had adjusted the trajectory of the probe to coincide with the satellite. When the images arrived, the agency scientists project them on a large screen at the European Space Operations Center. All present, including Brian May, a astrophysicist in spectroscopy and guitarist of Queen, exploded in shouts and applause. Deimos and the surface of Mars through the infrared thermal chamber (ESA/Jaxa) Affected by the mare coupling, we always look at Mars with the same face, so Hera has photographed his remote sidehis most unknown face. With 12.4 km in diameter, Deimos, a dark moon and covered with dust in potatoes could be a remnant of a great impact on Mars or an asteroid captured by the gravitational attraction of the planet. During your overfruit, Hera used for the first time Three scientific instruments outside the Earth-Luna system: its black and white sensor used for autonomous navigation, its hyperspectral image sensor (which exceeds the limits of the human eye in terms of visible and infrared colors that it is capable of detecting) and its infrared thermal chamber. In addition to the photos, the exercise has served as training for the main mission, but Dimorfo will be a much more complex objective of photographing: the 151 -meter diameter asteroid is Didimo’s moon, which measures 780 meters. The encounter between the probe and the asteroids should occur in December 2026. Two cubesats that travel inside Hera They will approach the asteroids. Image | THAT In Xataka | NASA and ESA have taken a turn in their predictions on the asteroid: the new data almost rule out the impact

In 2016, a urologist discovered that a Disneyland attraction helped expel renal calculations. The story was a bit more complicated

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In September 2016, David Wartinger (Urologist and Professor Emeritus at Michigan State University) He published a study according to which the Russian mountains facilitated the passage of kidney stones and, of course, the media went crazy. The kidney calculations They usually cause intense pain, bleeding, nausea and vomiting. In many cases they do not even go through the ureter them alone and you have to reduce them to dust with shock waves. The mere idea that a simple walk in a fair attraction could help solve it was a bombing. Of course, the story had a small print. Big Thunder Mountain Railroad. At some point in the late nineteenth century, someone found A colossal gold vein in Big Thundera mountain of the southwest of the United States. Quickly, the small mining camp in the immediate vicinity became a prosperous city and the mountain was filled with an intricate system of trains that moved the mineral from one place to another. No one suspected that Big Thunder was a sacred place for the Native Americans. Or, rather, it was a damn place that the natives avoided as a soul that the devil carried. It was inevitable that, sooner or later, a catastrophe would pass. And it passed. Some speak of an earthquake, others of a sudden flood. Be that as it may, the town was abandoned and the mine was closed until, years later, an expedition discovered that the wagons continued to move through the heart of the mountain without anyone who handled them. No, As Randy Meeks explained to usIt is not a real event: the plot of the most mythical mountain of Disneyland. That’s where history begins. A urologist in Michigan. As Wartinger himself explainedthe idea came unexpectedly. “Basically, I had patients who told me that after getting on a certain Russian mountain in Walt Disney World, they were able to expel their kidney calculations (…) I even had a patient who said he expelled three different calculations after climbing several times” As it seems, this theory did not pay much attention until, already retired, he discovered that other urologists They told similar things. It was then, when he felt the need to put it into practice. He did not do it with people, of course: he did it with a 3D model of a kidney with three calculations. He put it in the backpack, went to Orlando and rode 20 times in the Big Thunder Mountain. And what did you discover? “In total, we use 174 kidney calculations in different shapes, sizes and weights to see if each model worked in the same attraction and in two other roller mountains,” Wartinger explained in Msu Today. Interestingly, Big Thunder was the only one that gave positive results. “In the pilot study, sitting on the last car of the Russian mountain showed a success rate of around 64 percent, while sitting in the first cars only had a successful rate of 16 percent.” A simple curiosity … that quickly took out of context. With the help of the same Wartinger, by the way. As explained in Snopesin the interviews given by the retired urologist went far beyond reporting the results of his study. “If you have kidney calculations, but otherwise it is healthy and meets the requirements of the trip, patients should try it. It is certainly a cheaper alternative to medical care,” he said. The problem is that the basis for this is weak. What really does science say? There is no doubt that, as other urologists pointed out, This preliminary evidence suggests that a roller coaster can help naturally expel (very “) small. But, obviously, there is no empirical basis to recommend it. That is, it is a very striking study that could give an interesting clinical trial. A study that was never conducted. And without which, raising it as an alternative is risky: the experience of riding in that roller coaster with a large calculation can be terrible. Image | Renato Mitra In Xataka | There are people addicted to drink up to 15 liters of water daily (and it is a more serious problem than it seems)

It will be the third Spaniard in the story that crosses the line of karm

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Flying, flying by plane was an option available for very few people, but over time access to heavens was democratized. With space we are far from saying the same, but more and more people can pay to see the land from above. Only Blue Origin, the Jeff Bezos rocket company, has already launched 47 people beyond the Kármán line. And in his next mission he will lead a Spaniard, The famous adventurer Jesús Callejawho has been telling the preparations of his trip in a Amazon Prime Video and Mediaset documentary. The launch. The Blue Origin NS-30 mission It is scheduled for Tuesday, February 25. If there are no delays, the New Shepard rocket will take off at 9:30 in the morning, local Texas time. 16:30 in Spain. There will be a live broadcast on the Blue Origin web and social networks, which will begin 35 minutes before takeoff. The launch will also be broadcast by Telecinco. It will be the tenth manned flight of the New Shepard program, in the thirtieth flight of the program in general. Kárman line? It is the official border of the space, located 100 km above sea level. There is still atmosphere, but it is so fine that it allows us to observe the blackness of the vacuum, the curvature of the earth and everything that the millionaire space fonds want to experience, in addition to microgravity. The concept was introduced by the Hungarian-American engineer and physicist Theodore von Kármán, who calculated that, at that altitude, the atmosphere would be so dimly that a plane would need to reach orbital speeds to generate sufficient aerodynamic support. Therefore, from that altitude, conventional aircraft cannot operate effectively: we enter the field of rockets and spacecraft. The flight plan. On Tuesday, Calleja and five other crew will access the space capsule at the top of the rocket along the launch tower stairs. The New Shepard will turn on its be-3pm liquid hydrogen engine and accelerate until you throw the ship over the Karman line. While the rocket returns to the launch zone to land, the ship will make a free flight of 3-4 minutes in the space, during which the six travelers experience microgravity and enjoy the panoramic views of the earth. Next, the capsule will begin its atmospheric reentry and open the parachutes to land, 11 minutes after takeoff. The crew. Represented in the mission patch with different symbols are the six crew of the Blue Origin NS-30 flight: Jesús Calleja: The third Spanish to fly to space after Michael López Alegría and Pedro Duque. Mountaineer, pilot, adventurer and presenter of television programs such as Planeta Calleja Lane Bess: Inverter and former CEO of Palo Alto Networks. It is the second time that it flies with Blue Origin, he did it for the first time in the NS-19 mission on December 11, 2021 ELAINE HYDE: Founder of the news company Chicago Star and the artificial intelligence company for Eastside Enterprises media. Studied business and physics Richard Scott: Reproductive Endocrinologist, Embriotic, Scientific Researcher and Founder of Ivirma Global, the largest world group of fertility clinics Tushar Shah: Research partner and co -director in a New York Fondode. He studied physics at the MIT and experimental physics of particles for his doctorate also at MIT And a sixth anonymous crew. It is not known how much each seat has cost, but it is estimated that around a million dollars. As for the patch, it includes design proposals of the crew members themselves, especially those of Calleja himself, which is represented by the mountain, such as climber, the plane and the clouds, as a pilot, and the olive tree, for their desire for peace . Image | Prime Video, Blue Origin In Xataka | In a strange turn of events, Jesús Calleja will be the third Spaniard in history to travel to space

Jay Graber’s story, the CEO that is breaking the silicon valley mold

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When Jay Graber went up to the stage of Techcrunch In December 2024his message was overwhelming: Bluesky It is built “billionaire proof”. “The armor is in the design,” he said. “If someone bought Bluesky or broke, everything is open source. What happened to Twitter could not happen to us.” With more than 24 million users after the US elections of 2024, Bluesky has become a serious alternative to X. It is not necessary to exaggerate and say that it is already at its height because it is not even much less, but at least there is one Alternative where there was practically only empty. The story of how to get led this little revolution is singular and contextualize your vision of social networks. The origins Born in 1991 in Tulsa, according to Forbeshis mother – a acupunturist who fled from the Chinese cultural revolution – gave him the second name “Lantian” (蓝天), “blue sky” in Mandarin. As he revealed Vanity Fairthis name represented a desire for “freedom without limits” for his daughter, born of his own experiences under an oppressive regime. His father, a professor of mathematics of Swiss origin, completed this multicultural environment that would mark his vision of the world. The coincidence with the name of the company that now directs is casual, Jack Dorsy had already baptized the project as “Bluesky” before. However, it seems a something prophetic, especially considering the vision of freedom and openness that Graber would bring to the project. After graduating in science, technology and society from the University of Pennsylvania, where I monde He reports that he co -founded a student time bank, Graber worked as a engineer in Skuchain and in a factory welding Bitcoins mining equipment, before joining ZCASH in 2016. As revealed in Decode, This early experience with decentralized technologies was fundamental: “I have worked a lot of time in decentralized technologies and I have seen its limitations, but I also believe that there are many limitations in centralized systems.” Bluesky’s birth In 2019, while running Happening Inc., she was invited to a group of experts convened by Twitter. “He was one of the experts in a small chat room,” he recalled during An interview in Decode, the podcast of The Verge “I was very excited. At that time I worked in my own social app, and had been building decentralized social protocols, playing with them, doing a lot of research.” In 2021 It was named CEO of Blueskyalready as an independent company. This independence was a key decision that she promoted. As she revealed, “I insisted that we separate as an independent company. If the captain changed or if that support disappeared, it would lose institutional support for Bluesky, and I really wanted this project to exist.” “Jack had a vision of something better for social networks,” he explained to CNBC. “We are building an open source social network that anyone can take and build on it. No one has been so open or put so much control in the hands of users.” In your conversation with DecodeGraber deepened this vision: “We want this to be the last social identity that you will have to createbecause you can move it between applications and services. You can carry your identity, your relationships and your data with you. “ According to data provided by Emily Liu, spokesman for Bluesky, to Newsweekthe platform added five million new users after the 2024 elections, mainly from the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom. This explosive growth, as reveals The country“after the escaped flight of many users of X was intensified, once the news was made public that Elon Musk had been appointed co -director of the Donald Trump government efficiency department. “It is not entirely clear if there was a stampery as such and what magnitude, but that The dates of the rebound of users of Bluesky coincide with the post -electional. Monetization and leadership The challenge is now monetization. In “The Big Interview” of Wired, Graber announced premium subscriptions For high quality and customization videos. The company has raised 36 million dollarsincluding 15 million capital blockchain. And sooner or later he will have to return that money. “We are not going to build an advertisement algorithm that encloses users,” he told CNBC. With Twenty employees and one hundred moderatorsBluesky bets on an alternative model. As explained in depth to Decode, The platform is developing a “componable moderation” system which will allow users and communities to create their own rules and filters. “We think about the ‘bus problem’,” he explained to Forbes. “We have blocked everything so open that we cannot degrade the experience because we have opened the market to entrepreneurs.” This approach reflects The unconventional leadership style of Graber that, according to The country“He communicates directly with users, he is close and accessible. From his personal account, he writes threads explaining tricks to use better bluesky and usually reveals curious data with a sense of humor.” Rose Wang, Bluesky Operations Director, who met Graber in 2018 during a car trip to Lake Tahoe, describes her way of leading: “What does Jay so special is that in addition to being collaborative is a visionary, capable of anticipating ten steps to what is to come. “ The future Investor Mark Cuban told Forbes That Bluesky sees as a “really social” experience, although he made a nuance: his account in X has ten times more followers, a way of throwing a darting to the low penetration of the first against the second. This disparity does not seem to worry about Graber, who in Decode emphasized that the objective It is not to replicate the model of traditional social networks, but to create something radically different. Well. The future is about to be written. As Graber he told Wired: “We are focused on offering a good experience while we climb.” In Decodeexpanded this idea: “We have to show the first people that this vision can work, which is fun, useful, better than the … Read more

Of algorithmic trader to revolutionize AI. This is the story of Liang Wenfeng, the founder of Deepseek

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In just two weeks, an unknown 40 -year -old Chinese engineer has shaken Silicon Valley and has monopolized the world conversation about AI. It has even caused a global stock earthquake. Liang Wenfeng has achieved something that seemed impossible: Develop an AI model that rivals Openai to a fraction of its cost. If we move the focus, what has actually done is to launch an order to the American domain in Ia. Liang is not a technological entrepreneur to use. Born on the southern coast of China, in Zhanjiang, he began his career studying electronic engineering at the University of Zheijang. With Bright notes. In 2015 co -founded High-Flyera quantitative investment fund that managed more than $ 13,000 million using algorithms of Machine Learning To operate in the stock market. What distinguishes Liang is His unusual way of guiding his career. While most Chinese companies of AI focused on marketing products, He opted for research Pure and hard. “In the last thirty years, (the Chinese technology industry) has only emphasized to make money and ignored innovation,” he told China Waves as collected Reuters. “Innovation is not driven only by the business, it also needs curiosity and desire to create.” This vision materialized in 2021, when it began to accumulate thousands of Nvidia chips for a project without name, just before the United States restricted its sale to China. Two years later he founded Deepseek with just over one million dollars of initial capital. Today, They say local mediaDeepseek has only 140 employees. That is 10% of the OpenAI size, for example. Deepseek’s success He has driven Liang in his country. On January 20, he was in a closed door with Li Qiang, the prime minister. Liang was the youngest in the room. His meteoric ascent, going from a very limited fame to his field to being the epicenter of the global technological conversation in a few days, he has also put him in the trigger for those who question that Deepseek has been able to develop V3 and R1 only with the declared infrastructure. This is what Alexandr Wang, CEO of Scale AI, suggested in statements to CNBCwhen he assumed that his access to Chips had been much older but could not admit it for commercial restrictions. Dario Amodei, CEO of Anthropic, It was more comprehensive and even magnanimousbut not condescending. For Liang, The goal goes beyond competing with Silicon Valley. As explained to 36krseeks that China “gradually transit” to be a beneficiary to a taxpayer in the AI ​​industry. “What we see is that China cannot always be in a follower,” he said. “We often say that there is a gap of one or two years between China and American AI, but the true gap is between originality and imitation.” With a discreet profile and a disagreement image That has nothing to do with Altman, Zuckerberg and company, some liang companions They have described it as a pragmatic leader most motivated by his curiosity than for wealth or fame. It fits with seen so far. His commitment to research rather than by commercial applications reveals A certain background of your personality: It puts curiosity for long -term knowledge to immediate benefits. And perhaps that is what has changed the role of China in the Global Race of AI. Outstanding image | X, Xataka, Deepseek In Xataka | I have tried Deepseek on the web and in my Mac. Chatgpt, Claude and Gemini have a problem

Intel was about to snatch Apple as a client from TSMC. Having achieved its story would be another

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Apple is the largest TSMC customer. By difference. In 2021 26% of income From this manufacturer of Taiwanese semiconductors came from the signing of the apple, a figure much higher than 5.8% derived from its activity for Mediatek, which was then its second best client. All probability These numbers will barely varied In the following years. In any case, the narrow bond that these two companies have maintained has caused Apple to be a priority customer for TSMC. Those of Cupertino were the first to have access to the 3 nm lithographic node which is underway in TSMC plants in Taiwan. And Apple will have priority access, as expected, to the 2 nm lithographic node With GAA transistors (Gate-alall-around) in which TSMC will begin large -scale manufacturing for 2025. That of these two companies is a story full of complicities and alliances that have allowed both to be reinforced. However, everything was about to be very different. Intel tried to convince Apple The company led by Tim Cook began to develop its own SOC for its smartphones and tablets between 2009 and 2010. At that time Apple decided that Samsung, which is one of the three semiconductor manufacturers From the planet next to Intel and TSMC, be responsible for producing its chips. However, there was a problem: Samsung already was already one of the integrated circuit manufacturers that had some of the most advanced integration technologies, but it was also a direct competitor of Apple. This rivalry led Tim Cook to opt for other options, and one of them, presumably the most attractive, consisted of allying with TSMC and trusting that this Taiwanese company was responsible for manufacturing its semiconductors. However, this It was not the only option Cook had on the table. He also considered the possibility of working with Intel or Texas Instruments. The problem was that Intel had barely manufacturing chips for third parties, and, on the other hand, Texas Instruments integration technologies were not advanced enough. “Simply Intel does not know what to do to exercise as a chip factory for third parties” Despite all this, Paul Otellinithe general director of Intel at that time, met with Tim Cook in early 2011 with the purpose of convincing him that Intel was his best option. And it must have been very persuasive. In fact, the head of Apple decided to stop the commitment he had already reached with TSMC for two months with the purpose of evaluating Otellini’s proposal. Morris Changthe founder of TSMC, worried a lot when he learned that Tim Cook had temporarily stopped his commitment and decided to travel immediately to the US to meet with Apple’s general director. Chang has revealed during an interview with Acquired What happened during those negotiation days: “Intel’s general director approached Tim Cook and asked him to consider his company. At that time Intel was the main supplier of the Apple Mac line. I knew many of Intel’s clients in Taiwan, none of them liked it because Intel always acted as if they were the only ones who had microprocessors. Even if Intel tried to do business in good faith, he had a conflict of interest. “ However, Chang adds something else. “We have learned to attend all the requests of our clients. We always respond with courtesy, but Intel has never done that. All Intel clients in Taiwan who knew wanted to change the supplier,” recalls Morris Chang. Anyway, when the TSMC founder spoke with Tim Cook the latter had already made a decision. A decision that reassured the veteran Taiwanese engineer: “Simply Intel does not know what to do to exercise as a chip factory for third parties.” This is the phrase that, according to Morris Chang, Tim Cook said to let him know that Apple would seal his alliance with TSMC. The rest is history. Image | Asia Society | Flickr (Fortune Ceo Initiative, David Geller) More information | Acquired In Xataka | The new TSMC factory in the US has achieved something “impossible”: overcome the performance of Taiwan plants

The longest Greek papyrus found was not what it seemed. His translation has revealed an unknown story of Rome

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The tablets and papyri of antiquity are time capsules that show us a specific moment of the past fascinously, sometimes even in the first person. There is everything from The oldest trigonometric systemor from applied geometry a thousand years before Pythagoraseven stories or anecdotes that reveal us How was life thousands of years ago. Therefore, when the longest Greek papyrus was found, the world was expectant. It turns out that it was something else. A papyrus in Israel, a Roman case. An unprecedented discovery has thrown New light on the functioning of the Roman judicial system and the fight against financial crime in the eastern provinces of the Empire. An international team of researchers from the Academy of Sciences of Austria, the University of Vienna and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, has published The study of a Greek papyrus of more than 133 linesthe most extensive ever found, found in the Judea desert. The document, unknown until rediscovery in 2014offers a direct testimony of a trial for fiscal fraud and falsification of documents in the Roman provinces of Judea and Arabia, a region shaken by Jewish uprisings against Rome in the I and II DC centuries As we will see, life then was not as different from what it is today. A legal testimony of imperial Rome. The papyrus, initially Erroneous classified as Nebateoshe remained forgotten for decades until Professor Hannah Cotton Paltiel realized something. When examining it in the Parchment Laboratory of the Israel Antiques Authority, it identified its true nature. That finding motivated the formation of a specialized team to analyze its content, later confirming that it was actually, of notes of prosecutors in a trial against Roman officials on the eve of the Kokhba Bar Revolt (132-136 AD). Not just that. The document of the document is surprisingly dynamic, showing procedural strategies and discussions among prosecutors on the strength of evidence. An exceptionally well documented case within the judicial context of the province of Judea, comparable in importance, for example, to the process of Jesus, especially in terms of written evidence of Roman procedures in the region. A fiscal fraud scandal. As for the pure content of the same, the judicial case documented in the papyrus involves two defendants, Gadalias and Sauloswho operated a network of fraud based on fictitious sale and fraudulent slave manumission without paying taxes required by Rome. Gadalias, son of a notary and possibly Roman citizen, had a criminal history of violence, extortion and falsification of documents. For his part, Saulos, his accomplice, designed the scheme to avoid Roman taxes, using counterfeit documents to register non -existent transactions. The punishment. Under Roman law, falsification and fiscal fraud were serious crimes, punished with forced labor or even the death penalty. The arrest of Gadalias and Saulos not only responded to its criminal history, but also happened in a context of growing political tension. His case, in fact, developed between two great Jewish revolts: The diaspora revolt (115-117 AD) and The Kokhba Bar Revolt (132-136 AD)which led the Roman authorities to suspect that their activities were linked to a conspiracy against the Empire. By the way, the papyrus mentions TO TINEIUS RUFUSthe governor of Judea when the revolt of Bar Kokhba exploded, and places the activity of the defendants in the context of the visit of the Adriano Emperor to the region in 129-130 AD said connection suggests that The Romans saw any illegal activity in the area suspiciousespecially those that could be interpreted as acts of challenge to imperial authority. Economic and social implications. One of the most intriguing aspects of the case is the lack of an obvious economic benefit in the fraudulent liberation of slaves, which raises questions about the motivations of the accused. Among the hypotheses that are considered is the possibility that the case was linked to the traffic of people or the Jewish tradition of redeeming Jewish slavespractice based on biblical precepts. Not just that. The document also provides valuable information about the Roman legal administration in the Eastern Mediterranean, Confirming the application of institutions such as the judicial tours of the governor of Judea and the mandatory jurors in the provincial courts. These structures, widely documented in Egypt, can now be confirmed in other regions of the Empire, which reinforces the image of Rome as that highly organized state with a legal supervision system that even reached the most remote areas. The enigma of the papyrus. He Papiro P. Cotton was found in Judea’s desert, possibly in a cave used as a refuge During the Kokhba bar revolt. It happens that its conservation is a mystery, since judicial documents rarely survive outside the Roman archives. According to historians, it is possible that the trial will never reach its outcome due to the outbreak of the conflictwhich would have led the defendants to hide and carry that document with them. Be that as it may, we are facing one of those findings that occur very occasionally, an extraordinary discovery that provides us with an unprecedented look at the administration of justice in the Roman provinces of Judea and Arabia and that gives us an idea, not Only of the legal mechanisms of the empire, but also of the political and social tensions that marked the time, especially in a region where resistance to Rome was constant. Power, yesterday and today. If you want also, the writing says a lot about how the political elites of Rome worked, demonstrating how the empire regulated the economy and fought fraud even in their further territories, in addition to suggesting that the Romans saw with suspicion any illegal activity in contexts of political agitation, interpreting it as a potential threat to its domain. Politics and power, after all, have not changed so much since then. Image | Israel Authority Antiquities In Xataka | This clay tablet can be the oldest applied geometry example that is known: a thousand years before Pythagoras In Xataka | We have discovered Plato’s tomb in carbonized papiros … Read more

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