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A Russian submarine has appeared off the coast of France. And Europe’s reaction has been surprising: have a laugh

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August 2025. After learning through satellite images that the Russian nuclear submarine base had been was damaged After an earthquake, Ukraine leaked all the secrets of Moscow’s most advanced submarine, including its failures. Now, two months later, one of them has appeared off the coast of France. And, instead of fear, Europe has been amused. The silence broken. For days, NATO radars followed the strange figure of a Russian submarine that, instead of slipping secretly under the sea, clumsily advanced on the surface. Was Novorossiyska Kilo-class diesel-electric of the Black Sea Fleet, one of the few assets that still maintained Moscow’s flag in the Mediterranean. His march was slow and visible, accompanied by French, British and Dutch ships that escorted him with the same mix of caution and curiosity with which an injured animal is observed. For the Atlantic Alliance, that voyage was more than just a naval anomaly: it was a exhaustion signa reflection of what remains of Russian maritime power after three and a half years of war, sanctions and irreparable losses. Adrift. The official Moscow version It was immediate. According to the Black Sea Fleet, the Novorossiysk was sailing on the surface simply to comply with international standards when crossing the English Channel. But allied intelligence reports and leaks on Russian security channels painted a different picture: a damaged submarine, with a possible fuel leak, forced to surface repeatedly and, according to some reportseven to empty flooded compartments. The presence of a tugboat, he Yakov Grebelskiyreinforced that suspicion. For NATO commanders, the image of an attack ship “limping” toward its base was not only a metaphor for a technical breakdown, but the demonstration how Russian naval machinery is rusting in the eyes of the world. From Tartus to the Mediterranean. Until a few years ago, Russia maintained a permanent force in the Mediterranean, anchored in the Syrian base of Tartusits strategic bastion in the region. From there it projected power towards the Middle East and North Africa, protecting energy routes and monitoring Western transit. But the fall of the regime of Bashar al Assad in 2024 erased that balance in one fell swoop. With the new Syrian government, Moscow lost its last platform safe outside the Black Sea. Today, how he ironized NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte, “there is hardly any Russian presence left in the Mediterranean: just a lonely, broken submarine returning from patrol.” The decline is not measured in the number of sunken ships, but in the disappearance of an entire naval projection doctrine. The laughs. In his speech at the NATO Parliamentary Assembly in Slovenia, Rutte was so precise as biting. “What a change from Tom Clancy’s novel The Hunt for Red October, he said. Today, more like the hunt for the nearest mechanic.” The phrase, celebrated among the attendees, synthesized the new allied narrative: humor and joke as a language of power. Making fun of your opponent, taking away the mystique of their strength, is also a way of undermining their influence. Behind the irony, however, there was a geopolitical calculation. Rutte remembered the multiple Russian provocations in the last few months (drones over Europe, sabotage of underwater cables, failed plots, cyber attacks and instability in Finland and Poland), and warned that Moscow retains the capacity to inconvenience, although its military muscle has been reduced to symbolic gestures and worn-out threats. The invisible collapse. The Novorossiysk debacle It is not an isolated case. Since 2022, Ukraine has managed to destroy or disable more than thirty of Russian vessels with anti-ship missiles and marine drones. The losses have forced the Kremlin to withdraw a large part of its fleet from Sevastopol and move it to Novorossiysk, on the eastern coast of the sea, to avoid new attacks. That strategic refuge, paradoxically, bears the same name as the damaged submarine that is now trying to reach it. What was a symbol of supremacy in the Soviet era has become a floating cemetery of incomplete projects and demoralized crews. Mirror of war. If you like, the episode from Novorossiysk transcends the anecdotal. It represents the convergence of all fronts where Russia is wasting away: the military, the economic, the technological and the symbolic. Its fleet, once the second in the world, now depends on units that they age without spare partsas Ukraine innovates with drones that cost a fraction of its missiles. And NATO, aware of this, has learned to transform its silent victories in public stories that erode the perception of Russian invulnerability. The image of Novorossiysk advancing in the sight of everyone, towed and watched, it is the perfect image if you want to degrade an empire that can no longer hide its weaknesses. From shadow to emptiness. In the years of the Cold War, Soviet submarines were the silent terror of the Atlantic. Today, his most visible heir is a damaged ship that sails with the flag raised so as not to sink. This passage from shadow to void explains better than any report the real state of the Russian navy. What was previously feared, is now observed even with sarcasm, and what previously inspired respect, now provokes a mocking headline. In this transit we measure, according to Europe, the decline of a power and the rise of a Western communication strategy that no longer needs to confront directly to win. It is enough to unintentionally let the enemy show his shipwreck. And have a few laughs. Image | BORN In Xataka | Russia’s most advanced nuclear submarine was a secret. 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I always wanted to have the macos spotlight in Windows. The surprising thing is that whoever has just given me that option is Google

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Google He just launched a curious tool for Windows: a pitcher who Imitate what Apple has been offering for years to its users with the Macos spotlight. This small component, yes, comes with some curious ideas and a clear secret objective: infiltrate your operating system. The option is available as a small tool that we can download From Google Search Labs. At the moment it is only available in English and can only be downloaded if it is downloaded from the US, but the latter is easy to solve using a VPN. Testing this “Google Spotlight” for Windows It is what I did to try the tool on my PC with Windows 11 – it is also compatible with Windows 10 – and after doing so it can start using this little pitcher who, yes, asks you to Log in your Google accountprecisely to be able to include in those searches the documents you have on Google Drive. You can deactivate that option in the tool settings, by the way. The so -called “Google App for Windows” acts as a pitcher that we can start with the Alt+Space Bar combination (this shortcut can be changed), and from there we will have at our disposal many of the Google search engine options integrated into Windows. Thus, we can: Search on the Internet Find files from our Google Drive account Launch applications installed in our equipment Look for stored files in our team But we also have direct access to take advantage of the Google Lens power directly on the Windows desktop. By pressing it we can then select a screen region, and on it we can for example translate text to another language or solve the problem described in that “screenshot”. One of the promotional images of the app shows how with Google Lens we can “capture” a small mathematical problem and ask Google for help so that it solves it. In my tests I could see that the pitcher behaves impeccably. The search results appear instantaneously, although here Google seems to give preference to those found in Google Drive (such as Docs or Sheets documents). The launch of applications is also very fast, and in terms of documents, also fantastic behavior: It is deviably fast When finding documents (by file name) in our team, although yes, it does not seem to find them if they are in network folders, or at least I have not achieved it in my tests. As for the functions of Google Lens, the Occion is interesting if we want, for example, translating texts in some languages, but that option is especially intentive when we cannot select the text. I tried to translate a fragment of an Xataka article and did it well, but in reality for this type of option there are more direct alternatives (such as Google Translate, or Deepl) for example. Where the thing gets interesting is If we capture an image with texts in other languages “As a poster in Chinese, for example,” and that is where Google Lens is able to identify that text and translate it into languages ​​such as Spanish instantly. Taking the Chinese text of an image and translating it with Google Lens is to sew and sing with this little tool Of course, the other great option of this pitcher is to do what Google tries to do: look for information. That text field lends itself to asking anything, which will make an integrated search engine activated in a small drop -down window that will behave like the Google search website, showing AI Overviews, links and even access to the AI ​​Mode (because we continue to use the VPN and that option is also available in the US). Windows 10: 9 very useful and little known tricks Actually it was already possible to have a spotlight in Windows Google’s proposal is undoubtedly interesting, although undoubtedly it is another way of “infiltrating” on our PCs. This time Google’s app for Windows fulfills its mission, but it is important to note that it is not the only one that manages to take Windows the macOS Spotlight options. Powertoys Run In fact, there are a few suitors who try to offer the options of that Apple tool. One of the most remarkable is included in the set of Microsoft Powertoys tools. There the pitcher (called Powertoys Run) is also activated with ALT+space bar and allows several options similar to those of the Google app. Thus, by default it behaves like a Application search engine and pitcher: As soon as we begin to write the name of an application, the results will appear to be able to launch them from there. But we can also look for files and folders by writing a question closing symbol (“?”) And writing the name of the file to look for, or use it as a quick calculator using the equal symbol (“=”). I always wanted to have a desktop search engine focused precisely on that work of looking for files, and I found a great option with Everythinga small application whose interface is somewhat obsolete but whose operation is enviable. Everything finds all kinds of files related to the search term at the speed of lightning. It is difficult to compete with her in search of files, because before even looking for them is building a gigantic index that then consults for those searches. And best of all, in my case, this index also You can include network folders And therefore files that we have – as happens to me – in a nas connected to our local network. Be that as it may, Google’s option is an interesting step, although it is still available only in a limited way. If anyone knows about looking for things – especially on the Internet – it is this company, and without a doubt this is a good company for other tools that have coquista our Windows systems. Above all, of course: Google Chrome. In Xataka … Read more

Neither Spain, nor Portugal, nor Greece. The country where you work less in Europe has a surprising protagonist: Germany

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In May, and through Eurostat dataa reality was found that sometimes confuses a story: the myth that says that the Germans work more than the Spaniards It was not held With the figures in the hand. The key, like We comment thenI was in the quality of the labor market: a good part of the German workers work less hours a week in part -time jobs, but they did it for more years than the Spanish workers. And now the OECD has arrived to put Germany In its place. Labor identity crisis. Germany, traditionally associated with discipline and productivity, faces a paradox today: According to the OECDis the developed country where Less hours work per year, just 1,331 against The 1,898 of Greece or the 1,716 of Portugal. The situation involves a symbolic blow to a country that just a decade ago imposed austerity policies to the countries of the South, stigmatizing them as little workers. The fall in the workload is combined with a economic deterioration Palpable: unemployment has overcome three million people For the first time in a decade, the economy has contracted for two consecutive years and GDP is already less than in 2019, while Spain and Greece grow at rhythms over 2%. The debate on work. We have gone counting. The reduction of hours worked has become on central theme In German politics. Chancellor Friedrich Merz warns that with four -day work weeks and an excess of emphasis on the “vital balance” will not sustain the prosperity of the country. The data They are striking: German workers enjoy holidays longer than the legal minimum, numerous festivities and an average of 19 medical casualties a year, in front of 16 before the pandemic, a change that experts attribute more to culture than to health. Scandals like that of a teacher in Baja since 2009 charging full salary They have reinforced the perception that labor laxity is unsustainable. The roots of the phenomenon. They counted In the Washington Post that specialists argue that it is not a laziness, but rather of structural barriers. Almost half of German women work part -time, figure that exceeds 65% In the case of mothers, which translates into one of the greatest full -time equivalent employment gaps of the entire EU. Historical factors also weigh: in Western Germany, working mothers were stigmatized Like “Cuervo Mothers”while in the east, under the socialist model, full -time employment was promoted with nurseries from an early age. Today cultural differences persist and a child care system with short schedules that prevents many families from holding full -time jobs. Proposals and resistances. The experts They coincide in which to expand the nurseries and extend their schedules would be decisive, but the technical solutions collide with the policy. Changing the tax declaration to individual system could add the equivalent to half a million jobs full time, but is perceived as “anti-family” and is difficult to approve. For their part, entrepreneurs They claim Less bureaucracy and more immigrationwhile some researchers advocate simple reforms that release hidden work hours. However, government responses have been considered shy and insufficient, and the feeling of postponement persists. The four -day elephant. Paradoxically, while political leaders ask for more work, there are more and more companies that rehearse with shorter jobs. In 2024, 45 companies tested the four -day With equal salaries and reduced hours, with Positive results: Greater productivity per hour and more satisfied employees. Most of these firms plan to keep the model, consolidating the trend in favor of free time. Thus, Germany moves Between two poles: a productive system that suffers stagnation and presses to extend days, and a society that values ​​life more and more outside of work, drawing a clash of visions that puts into play not only the economy, but the identity of the country. Image | International Tr In Xataka | The myth says that Germans work more than the Spaniards. The data tell a different thing In Xataka | Some researchers have analyzed the working day in Spain: the same thing that 40 years ago is worked, but in worse jobs

In China a chips designer for the growing like foam. The surprising thing is that it is not about Huawei or Moore Threads

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Cambricon Technologies is an essential company in China’s plans to dispute its leadership in the US artificial intelligence (AI). Although it is not as well known as Huawei or Moore Threads, this is one of the companies specialized in the design of GPU for AI With greater growth potential. In fact, he has received the approval of the Shanghai bag (China) to raise 560 million dollars. Will allocate them to the design of four chips for training and inference of AI models, and also to the development of an alternative to CUDAfrom Nvidia. To this company everything seems to be going well. And is that during the last twelve months The value of its actions has tripled. The strategic role of AI for China in its technological and commercial war with the US supports Chinese companies dedicated to the hardware design for AI and the development of large language models. However, there is more to promise to boost the business in the short and medium term not only of Cambricon Technologies, but also that of the other Chinese companies that design integrated circuits for ia. As we explained yesterday, the Chinese government has decided to force data centers that belong to the State throughout the country To use at least 50% of Chinese integrated circuits on their servers. A priori is one of the most effective strategies when promoting innovation and minimize China’s dependence of technologies from abroad. And in all likelihood this measure will be supported by others in the future that will try to encourage the use of Chinese chips in all data centers in the country. Public and private. Huawei and Moore Threads complete a very valuable trio for China Moore Threads appears since October 2023 in the blacklist prepared by the US government. This is one of the Chinese organizations that are dedicated to the production of hardware for which companies aligned with the interests of the US and their allies cannot sell software or advanced equipment. Although it is very young (it was founded in 2020) it has something very important in its favor: its founder is Zhang Jianzhong, former general manager of the Nvidia subsidiary in China, so it is evident that he knows well what he has in hand. Moore Threads appears since October 2023 in the blacklist prepared by the US government Moore Threads has developed several GPU for AI applications that, on paper, rival some of the advanced solutions that have placed in the Nvidia, AMD or Huawei market. MTT S4000 and MTT S3000 cards are Your most interesting proposals Right now, although, curiously, in its porpholio the MTT S80 card, a proposal for games and content creation that, according to Moore Threads herself, has a calculation capacity of 14.4 Tflops in Simple precision floating coma operations. Currently this company does not have the ability to compete with Nvidia outside China, but its future looks very interesting. And is that has received During the last four years a total investment of about 800 million dollars from more than two dozen investors. Among them are Chinese technology companies bytedance and Tencent. The other indispensable actor in the Chinese chips industry for IA is Huawei. His most ambitious proposal right now is the chip Ascend 910dwho seeks to overcome the performance of the GPU NVIDIA H100. However, this Chinese company has also recently presented its chip Ascend 920a solution that is clearly destined to occupy in the Chinese market The gaps that the NVIDIA H20 GPU is going to leave. This proposal will enter large -scale production during the second half of 2025 using 6 NM integration technology that have presumably developed elbow with Huawei elbow and SMIC (Semiconductor manufacturing international corp). More information | SCMP In Xataka | Nvidia has to deal with the absolute distrust of several US legislators. His plan in China is in danger In Xataka | The US wants to end the chips for the Chinese that are sold abroad. And China knows how to defend oneself

The most self -sufficient countries on the planet at the food level, gathered in a surprising graphic

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Humanity has eaten what it played For thousands of years. With globalizationhe has started eating what he wants and that, together with the population increase, It has consequences. Not being able to meet the demand of some foods, Import is a necessity. But it turns out that there is a unique country in the world, a completely self -sufficient one if we talk about food. Guyana The All-Star of Self-sufficiency. In the upper graph, prepared by Visual Capitalistwe can see the 50 most self -sufficient countries in the world at the food level. It reflects seven food groups: Fruit. Vegetables. Legumes. Starchy foods such as flours or rice. Meat. Fish. Dairy. And the only country that not only complies, but exceeds the production of what its population of each of these groups needs is Guyana. It is a small country of about 815,000 inhabitants located in northern South America that has shot your GDP These last years. Partly, thanks to discovery Of great oil reserves in 2015, but before that boom, their agricultural and mining industry were the ones that pulled the car. Closing the podium. So much that it is, as we say, the only one that produces its own food in all groups, highlighting in one that does not usually highlight: starchy foods. Closing the podium, we must look at Asia. Vietnam and China are two other countries that meet in six of the seven groups. The common strong point is the production of meat and fish (Meritory in the case of China, but At the expense of half -world folders). The weak is that of dairy products. It is common in Asia, with cases as dramatic as Indonesia, Thailand, Tonga, Laos or Philippines, which satisfy 0% of their dairy consumption with the national product. To the tail … On the other side of the balance we have Armenia, Thailand and Greece. The three countries are in the group of those that meet in the production of four categories (where the vast majority of countries are found), but with low percentages in general in almost all groups and a total dependence on dairy and vegetables in the case of Thailand, starchy and, curiously, fish in the case of Greece and legumes and fish in the case of Armenia. Europe and the fruits that come through those who come out. Taking an eye on the panorama of the member countries of the European Union (Greece is an example), we see that some falter, others stand out. And vice versa. The north, for example, does not get along with the Fruit culturesomething that does stand out in the countries of the South. The key in this case is the Single market Agricultural that allows food products to circulate freely between member countries, without regulatory tariffs or barriers. More than 70% of EU’s food products is carried out between member countries, being something that ensures balance and supply even in cases of local productive problems. In Xataka | The size of the submerged economy of all countries in the world, exposed in this developer map

Between franchises, action and superheroes Hollywood has found a surprising gold mine: horror movies

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14.4% of the American box office already belongs to horror movies. It is its historical maximum and a great leap from 9.8% of last year confirming what we already suspected: the damn genre has become an unexpected hero of Hollywood. ‘Weapons‘, the last success of director Zach Cregger, has debuted with $ 42.5 million collected and 100% critical approval in Rotten Tomatoes. The pattern is confirmed. Why is it important. The era of streaming has created the perfect conditions for this genre: Cheap productions, between 5 and 30 million compared to 200 of a Blockbuster. Viral by its very nature. Consumed in the intimacy of the home, where no one judges you for shouting (when they reach the platforms). Simple equation: Less investment, greater return. The contrast. In 2021, the best previous year for the genre, dominated the sequelae. ‘Halloween’, ‘A Quiet Place’. Now the original stories, new scares. Six horror films have exceeded 50 million worldwide this year. There are 29 horror launches scheduled for 2025. The average budget is a tenth of a Blockbuster traditional. Yes, but. The industry fears an early saturation. Variety I already talked in April of ‘Horror Glut’ (‘Terror Empacho’). The risk is to turn fear into routine and end up tireding the viewer too early. In perspective. Historically, terror is the Hollywood refuge genre in times of crisis. In the great depression it was when the classic monsters of Universal were born. In the seventies (Vietnam, Watergate), they arrived ‘The exorcist‘ and ‘The Matanza de Texas‘. There were also rebounds in Pandemia. Today, with the industry staggering between The strike hangoverthe change of model towards the streaming And the threat of AI, terror is the answer again. Cheap to produce, easy to sell, impossible to ignore. And now what. The generative AI can be the following revolution of the genre. Special effects at balance price, scripts generated by trained algorithms in our deepest fears. Terror, which has always been the most honest genre about the human condition, could be the first to hug the AI without complexes. Fear sells. He has always done it. But now, also saves balances. In Xataka | More ads for less money: the equation of success that Netflix has deciphered big Outstanding image | Warner Bros. Pictures

The misuse of agricultural machinery is behind a surprising number of events

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We are in full heat wave and extreme precautions. Reminders we do not lack and one of the last ones has given the Agrarian Association Young Farmers (ASAJA), for a good reason: the danger that these days supposes The misuse of agricultural machinery. 131 fires. The use of machinery and engines, especially in the agricultural context, has been triggered 131 forest fires in Castilla y León so far this year. Are ASAJA datathat cite a letter from the General Director of Natural Heritage and Forest Politics, José Ángel Arranz, in which the increase in forest fires of agricultural origin was alerted. This implies, Asaja points out, an increase of 37.9% compared to the average of the last five years: 95 fires. In a statement, Asaja details that these fires would have burned 750.57 agricultural hectares and 52.53 hectares of forest soil. The Administration indicated that 17 causes of fire by harvesting had been identified, but that the investigation continues in other cases. One third. According to data of the Ministry of Environment, Housing and Planning of the Territory of the Board of Castilla y León, this year (on July 30, the latest data we have) have occurred in the Autonomous Community 391 fires, most of them, 313, conatos (fires in which the burned surface is of a hectare or less). This implies that around a third of the fires produced in the Castilian-Leon territory would have their origin in this type of machinery. The 17 fires caused by harvesting would represent more than 4% of the total. A double risk. This type of fire has a double impact on the agricultural sector. First, when producing in agricultural farms, these fires disproportionately affect the field, putting at risk not only harvests and facilities, but also the workers themselves. In second place, Asaja remembers that to the risk of fires must add the sanctions, which can take different, administrative or criminal. The fact that the event is accidental and even complying with the regulations does not exempt from civil liability derived from the fire caused. The last alert of the Board. In this context, the Junta de Castilla y León has made a special appeal To the citizens to extreme caution. It also published a resolution of the General Directorate of Natural Heritage and Forest Politics in which certain actions are prohibited. Among them “the use of machinery that, in its usual functioning, dismisses sparks or electrical discharges such as torch, welders and radials, both in the mountain and in a strip of 400 meters of the terrain that surrounds it.” The resolution also prohibits lighting fire in open spaces in the mountain, as well as in recreational and camping areas, “even in areas enabled for it”; also the use of barbecues located in open spaces of the mount or nearby areas; and suspend events such as fireworks, other elements of pyrotechnics, and in general, the use of fire in activities. In Xataka | Turning Portugal into eucalyptus monoculture was a disaster. And the last fires do nothing but remind us Image | Asaja Castilla y León

The last Russian tactic are not kamikaze drones. His soldiers carry a helmet with antennas that is surprising Ukraine

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Once it has become clear that The drones They are the offensive on which They are sustained The offensives in Ukraine, has begun a face B: the search for tactics that counteract the armies of swarms. Ukraine, for example, had achieved a Unexpected shield: the Fishing networks of a town in Denmark. For their part, Russian soldiers have revealed the last tactic against kyiv’s drones. Boom drones. The war between Russia and Ukraine has entered a phase marked by the hegemony of droneswhich have gone from being tactical weapons against armored to transform into executioners of individual soldiers. In devastated cities Like Chasiv Yar or in the nearby plains To Kupiansk and JárkovFPV drone swarms have Back omnipresentturning any movement of troops into an immediate target. This new reality has imposed a stagnation scenario: any offensive advance is detected, tracked and destroyed in minutes. The strategic consequence is clear: the side that achieves shield their soldiers in front of drones will acquire a decisive advantage In the front. Aware of this, Russia has presented An unpublished system of portable electronic war designed specifically for each combatant, one more step in the miniaturization of anti drone defense. Design of the new system. In A video Disseminated in networks, a Russian soldier has shown a compact device integrated into his team. The system consists of a module with two antennas coupled to the helmet, a connection harness, A mounted screen In the forearm and a power battery. The process is simple in appearance, but complex in execution: the device Detect passively The drone radio signal intercepts the video signal transmitted to the operator and reproduces it on the soldier’s screen. From there you can order the directed interference, blinding the enemy pilot. Innovation lies that this mechanism does not seek to cut the control or navigation link (the usual objective of traditional inhibitors) but directly attack video transmissiona channel that operates with greater power and is more noise resistant. This precise targeting reduces the need to emit large levels of energy, decreases the risk of interfering with Russian communications themselves and maintains the electromagnetic footprint of the system, making it difficult to detect and destruction by Ukraine. The set screen for each soldier Tactical value. The method offers several advantages over conventional suppression systems. First, avoid activating the security protocols of the latest Ukrainian drones, which usually enter into Autonomous or return mode When navigation or control is interrupted. By maintaining those intact channels and limiting yourself to blinding the operator, confusion is immediate: the pilot loses the vision of the target, but no automatic defense is activated. Secondly, portability allows each soldier to have A protection bubble Minimum against hostile drones, instead of depending exclusively on systems mounted on vehicles or on fixed platforms. This is especially relevant in urban or wooded environments, where clashes are decentralized and scattered. Limitations and vulnerabilities. Despite its ingenuity, the Russian system is not exempt from weaknesses. For example, it is ineffective against fiber optic dronesthat transmit their images by physical wiring and, therefore, are immune to the radio block. In addition, it would not be surprising that the evolution of Ukrainian tactics ends neutralizing it, or with the adoption of safer video channelsreinforced encryption or even the implementation of emergency modes by losing visual signal could reduce its effectiveness in a matter of months. Likewise, depending on continuous technical updates to follow the rhythm of the adversary will imply A logistics cost and significant production. Strategic consequences. That said, if Russia manages to display this large -scale technology, even with partial efficiency, it could Transform balance in key front sectors. Neutralize drones, even temporarily, opens the possibility of offensive maneuvers that today are suicidal under the constant look of The enemy FPV. The ability to advance hundreds of meters without being immediately detected can mean the difference between conserving the initiative or being trapped in a wear war endless. And, if we expand the focus, the trend reflects the transition of high -range anti drone systems and Mounted on vehicles toward portable solutionsindividual and adapted to the war of proximity. In this technological career, each innovation determines not only the survival of isolated soldiers, but the viability of entire offensive operations. EVOLUTION OF THE ELECTRONIC WAR. The appearance of this portable inhibitor confirms a deep doctrinal change: the Electronic Warin the past mastery of mass stations and strategic air platforms, now descends to the soldier level. What was previously deployed in long -range radars and powerful antennas is concentrated today on an coupled device to a helmet. If generalized, modern combat will be even more linked to the capacity of engineers to miniaturize electronic defenses and adapt them to the individual soldier. Russia has taken a significant step in that direction, and if its bet is viable in combat, it could inaugurate a new era in which each carrying combatant, next to its rifle, an invisible shield against drones that dominate the 21st century. Image | Reddit In Xataka | Russia has reminded the US that has a last button: it is called Dead Hand and is operated in case of Russian annihilation In Xataka | Not that war in Ukraine has become a laboratory of the future, is that there are drones saving lives with bicycles

A surrounded soldier, a drone and a bicycle have turned a ransom in the most surprising scene of the war in Ukraine

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In Ukraine they had given themselves Moments that possibly They will be remembered at the end of the contest for the advance of the Wars of the future. One day the machines captured and they made prisoners Without human help, another, drones took a completely autonomous attack taking off from mobile houses. However, few scenarios can give both themselves and the one that occurred this week with a Ukrainian soldier caught in battle. An impossible rescue. Yes, the dramatic rescue of the Ukrainian soldier “Tankist”, surrounded by Russian and isolated troops For five days Behind the enemy lines, it offers a clear advance of how rescue operations are mutating before drone omnipresence and the impossibility of applying classical methods. The operation, conducted by the Rubizh Battalion of the National Guard, consisted of sending a 40 kilos electric bicycle Through a drone large to allow its flight. The mission. Apparently, the first two attempts They failed: one because the drone was shot down and another because the bicycle resulted Too heavy For transport. Finally, in a third effort, the vehicle reached its hands and Tankist undertook the escape, although a few meters after it detonated a land mine that fortunately alone It caused injuries minors Even so, he managed to continue until he reached a safe area thanks to a new bicycle launched by another drone and was finally rescued by his teammates. The episode, registered in a video Of sixteen minutes, it reflects both despair and inventiveness on a front where each meter is exposed to air and air ambush. The emergence of mobility. The case is also not isolated: the use of drones For evacuations doctors or fighter extractions He has shot In the last eighteen months, driven by the proliferation of short -range meloding ammunition that make human rescue teams. Both Ukrainians and Russians increasingly resort to Non -manned land vehicles To move injured, transport supplies or open escape routes under constant fire. The lethal risk combination, airspace saturation and mobility limitations has generated an unprecedented dependence on these technologies, in many cases improvised but effective. The example. This trend has extended even to civil areas. For example, he counted recently The New York Times The recent case of a farmer in China who was saved from floods thanks to An agricultural droneconfirming that rescue robotization is already a reality beyond war. The time factor. In this context, the speed is decisive. Health professionals stand out The “Golden Time”those first sixty minutes after a serious injury in which the life or death of the fighter is decided. Each delay implies an irreversible risk, and in scenarios where enemy fire prevents the intervention of traditional equipment, drones offer only viable option. The ability to deliver a light mobility means, such as Electric bicycles of the rescue, demonstrates how technology is redefining the Auto-Rescate conceptallowing the fighter to move to areas where extraction is less risky or possible. The soldier’s scene undertaking the escape by bicycle under the surveillance of his classmates through recognition drones seems taken from a science fiction movie, but is already part of the day -to -day life of the forces in Ukraine. Strategic implications. In fact, even the pentagon has Taken note of these transformations. In future scenarios, such as a hypothetical conflict in the Pacific, classical air rescue operations with helicopters could become unfeasible Due to the enormous distances and the dense anti -aircraft networks of the adversaries. Not even a poaching hunting could survive in certain environments, much less a slow helicopter loaded with rescuers. Hence they are studied New formulas Self-rescate based on air and terrestrial drones, light electric vehicles or even non-manned aircraft specifically designed to extract injured without risking more soldiers. In short, what happened With Tankist It is, in reality, a rudimentary version of these strategies: a tangible look at a future where the survival of a combatant will depend on both its ability to resist and the availability of autonomous technologies that connect it with salvation. Image | Rubizh 4th Brigade NGU In Xataka | Ukraine has turned drones into armed soldiers against Russia. It is no longer necessary to “sacrifice them” because they carry launched In Xataka | Ukraine has become a combat drones school. Even the Mexico Cartel has infiltrated classes

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

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