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The EU has a perfect plan to suffocate Russia. The problem is that now it needs its oil to survive

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In December 2025, we said goodbye to the year by telling Vladimir Putin a resounding da svidániya (До свида́ния). The president of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, and the Commissioner for Energy, Dan Jørgensen, pompously announced a political agreement to end Russian gas imports (both by pipeline and liquefied) by 2027. The political message was crystal clear: Europe wanted to show that it was no longer dependent on Moscow. The blackmail was over. But in its eagerness to celebrate the blackout of Russian gas, Brussels forgot a small detail: Putin’s oil still runs through the veins of Eastern Europe. And the embargo, in reality, has lasted very little. Barely three months later, physical reality has imposed itself on diplomacy. Today we find ourselves with a brutal paradox: the same European Union that designed an unprecedented economic war architecture against Moscow, and that asked its citizens to make sacrifices in the name of collective security, is now pressuring invaded Ukraine to open the tap on Russian crude oil. Deep down in the Kremlin, Putin always knew that the laws of politics rarely win against dependence on infrastructure. The epicenter of this crisis has its own name: the Druzhba pipeline (Interestingly, “friendship” in Russian). As revealed by an exclusive from Financial Timesthe EU is pressuring kyiv to allow inspection and repair of this infrastructure that transports Russian oil to Hungary and Slovakia. The problem lies in a Russian attack that occurred on January 27. As detailed ReutersUkrainian Energy Minister Denys Shmyhal confirmed that a bombing severely damaged the sensors and internal equipment of the infrastructure. The story is expanded by the CEO of Naftogaz, Sergii Koretskyi, in statements to Financial Times: The attack caused a storage tank with 75,000 cubic meters of oil to catch fire, unleashing a fire the size of a football field that took 10 days to extinguish. Ukraine claims that repairing this in the middle of war is slow and dangerous. However, Hungary and Slovakia do not buy this version. According to EuronewsPrime Ministers Viktor Orbán and Robert Fico have created a joint investigative committee, demanding immediate access to the area. Orbán has gone further, accusing Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky of lying and orchestrating “state terrorism” and, together with Fico, demands that an independent investigation mission be deployed on the ground to verify the damage, something that kyiv refuses for security reasons in the middle of the war. The perfect storm in the Middle East Europe is not asking Ukraine for this favor on a whim, but out of pure survival. And to understand it you have to look to the Middle East. The recent coordinated attack by the US and Israel against Iran, which culminated in the assassination of Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, has unleashed chaos. The Iranian response has caused a blockage de facto of the Strait of Hormuz, 20% of the world’s daily oil supply passes through this maritime funnel. The impact has been devastating: hundreds of ships are paralyzed, insurance premiums have shot up by up to 50% and the daily cost of renting a supertanker has risen by 600%. This has destroyed European plans.As analyst Shanaka Anslem Perera emphasizesEuropean sanctions have collided head-on with thermodynamics, and thermodynamics has won. With the EU’s gas reserves at 30% in mid-February, Qatar’s LNG trapped after the Hormuz blockade and the alternatives of Norway, Algeria and the US at the limit of their capacity, Europe has been left without a plan B. “The EU does not return to Russian oil because it wants to, it returns because it has no other option,” says Perera. So, are we once again dependent on Russia? For some EU countries, dependency was never cut. According to The Moscow TimesHungary and Slovakia continued to enjoy legal exemptions from European sanctions and were almost 100% dependent on the southern branch of the Druzhba pipeline, receiving some 150,000 barrels per day in January. The reason is purely economic, since Russian crude oil is between 13% and 20% cheaper. Although Croatia has offered its Adria pipeline (JANAF) to ship non-Russian oil to these countries, Euronews explains that Budapest resists. Orbán considers that it is not commercially viable, demands that Croatia allow the passage of sanctioned Russian oil and defends that its energy security cannot be an “ideological” issue. Curiously, while Europe suffers from its dependence, Russia observes the crisis of its allies from afar. According to an analysis of the cnnFollowing Khamenei’s death, the Kremlin has issued strong verbal condemnations but has refused to provide real military aid to Iran. Ukrainian military analysts note that Russia even refused to “blind” Israeli radars using its bases in Syria. Moscow, bogged down in Ukraine, does not have the resources to open new fronts, demonstrating that its alliances are more transactional than strategic. The pipeline crisis has mutated into lethal financial blackmail for kyiv. As noted Financial TimesHungary has vetoed the approval of an EU aid package for Ukraine worth €90 billion (scheduled for 2026-2027). Hungarian Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó made it clear: there will be no money until oil flows through the Druzhba again. In Brussels, the European Commission is looking for shortcuts. Euronews points out that complex legal options are being consideredsuch as invoking Article 327 (which prevents countries excluded from an agreement from blocking the rest) or using the withholding of defense funds (the SAFE program) to pressure Orbán, who is in the midst of an election campaign. In the midst of the crossfire, diplomacy tries to survive. Deutsche Welle reports that Zelensky remains open to negotiating an end to the war with Russia. Although the talks were scheduled for March in Abu Dhabi, the instability in the Middle East due to Iranian missiles has led the Ukrainian leader to propose moving the dialogue table to Switzerland or Turkey. The great silent winner and European weakness While the West hyperventilates, calm reigns in Asia. 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In 2020, humanity was confined by covid. And that caused a species of bird to modify its beak to survive

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During the COVID-19 pandemic the world stopped completely. Something that scientists have named ‘anthropause‘: a sudden silence of human activity that left many of us confined at home and that even affected nature. This effect was so extreme that even a species of bird changed its beak as science has now seen. The study. Although in the past we saw some disorders in nature, such as the appearance of wild boars in Barcelona or dolphins in Venetian ports, now a team from UCLA has gone further. a study published in PNAS indicates that a population of urban birds modified his physical anatomy in record time. The objective they had was to survive the absence of humans at that time. But the most surprising thing is that when everything returned to normal and humans began to go outside, the birds returned to their original beak. The dilemma. To understand the discovery, you first have to know the protagonists: the dark eyed juncos. Some small birds that are very common in the field of the University of California in Los Angeles. Before 2020, these birds had short, wide beaks. Something that makes perfect sense, since they were in an environment full of students and, therefore, His diet was based on leftovers. that were left This is why it needed to have a robust beak to handle these ‘artificial’ foods. In contrast, their relatives that live in wild forests have longer, thinner beaks, designed like precision tweezers to search for insects and seeds hidden in vegetation. The pandemic. When UCLA closed its doors in 2020 and the students disappeared, so did the easy food. And this was where the university researchers saw a unique opportunity to study what happens when you eliminate humans from the ecological equation. The results. What was seen in this case is the new generations of reeds that were born precisely in this time of ‘loneliness’ they developed longer and thinner beaks. All this because since there was no human garbage, they had to behave like wild birds again, foraging on the ground and looking for food alternatives. But what was most fascinating happened after the reopening. As soon as students (and their snacks) returned to campus in 2022, the morphology of the peaks quickly reverted to the urban form with a short, thick shape. This is ultimately an extremely rapid evolutionary change that is very rare to see. A change of mind. What makes this study so relevant to the scientific community is the speed of the field. Generally, we think of evolution as a process that takes thousands of years. However, what we observed here suggests that urban species have a much more elastic capacity for adaptation than we believed. Since it’s not just the peak. Previous studies by the same team had already noted behavioral changes: during the pandemic, these birds lost their fear of humans, becoming less aggressive and more curious, although that behavior also readjusted with our return. Its importance. This case is a brutal reminder of our ecological footprint. We don’t just alter the climate or the landscape; our mere presence and our waste acts as an evolutionary force that shapes the biology of the animals around us like these birds. The UCLA rushes have taught us that nature is not static; It is a dynamic system that reacts to our habits almost in real time. The question that remains in the air is: if a couple of years of silence changed the shape of a bird, what other invisible changes are we causing without realizing it? Images | Vincent van Zalinge David Mitran In Xataka | The insects of Antarctica had been living peacefully for thousands of years. Until microplastics arrived

Since I know that combustion cars will survive 2035, there is one that I dream about. And it’s not a Porsche or a Ferrari

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If you are one of those who like the world of automobiles, it is almost impossible that you have not heard about it. The European Commission has proposed maintaining cars with combustion engines. Indeed, we have not been wrong. Europe has not approved anything yet, the European Commission has made its proposal and now it has to be approved by the European Parliament and the Member States (the Council of the EU). Seeing how positions within the European Union have evolved in the last three years, everything indicates that if this proposal is not approved we will see something very similar to what has already been published. This proposal, as we tell in this article, anticipates a future where, indeed, we will have combustion cars. But they will be restricted to a few exceptions. With the obligation to maintain the average emissions below 11.6 gr/km of CO2 in its fleet To avoid possible fines, brands will have to continue selling enormous volumes of electric cars. The measure has been called by some analysts such as Mathias Schmidtt of “Porsche amendment”. And it is these types of vehicles that will continue to have combustion engines at exorbitant prices. Luckily, if everything goes the same, we can continue to see a Porsche 911 with a combustion engine or a Ferrari with its good V12. But it seems almost impossible for us to see affordable cars with this type of technology. Does that mean that every sports car will be electric? Most probably will be. But if this new regulation is approved, at least the door will be open to seeing a type of vehicle that we have little studied in Europe. One with which Mazda wants to keep alive a sports option in its range. The new wording opens the door for our dream of seeing the Mazda Iconic SP becoming a reality to be closer. Why does an electric car have less autonomy than advertised? Let’s dream about him It was November 2023 when Mazda dropped a bomb at the Tokyo Motor Show. It was at that time when he presented the Mazda Iconic SP, a beautiful prototype with retractable headlights and proportions halfway between the Mazda MX-5 and the Mazda RX-7two of his legendary cars. Very few details were given about the car but enough to understand that its return may be viable even with the expected emissions reduction. It was said that it was an extended range electric car. That is, a kind of plug-in hybrid where a rotary engine supports the vehicle to generate electricity and send it to the battery. The electric motors are what drive the wheels by taking electricity from the battery. A battery just enough for daily trips in electric mode but supported by a rotary motor allowed the car to have 370 HP but, above all, a weight of 1,430 kg. A low figure for an electric car, in line with Mazda’s philosophy of always trying to keep weight at bay. And the company has made it very clear on repeated occasions that they do not believe in electric cars with long ranges, among other things because of the excess weight it causes in their cars. He Mazda MX-30 electric and its 1,720 kg weight is a good example of how batteries affect this aspect. But its extended range version is also a good example of how they are already using this technology. The passage of time, however, seemed to be making things complicated for the company. In a recent interview with Coachhis Masahi Nakayama, head of the sports car’s design, said that it was the car of his dreams and that “technically it is viable” but the problem was in the costs. It has logic. For a brand as small as Mazda, putting a vehicle that will presumably be niche on the road is a huge risk. The eccentricities, the different cars, are reserved for huge companies like Toyota or vehicles that can remain on the market. If the company could not emit CO2 emissions in Europe in 2035 it would be another market that would be closed. The European market is, in fact, the most interesting market for this car. In China, customers They have looked at another type of vehicle more technological inside. In the United States the electric car is not taking off and There doesn’t seem to be any intention for it.. Only Europe and Japan seem to be areas where sales can be made, but the first market still has a ban on selling cars with combustion engines approved, which prevents a commercial life long enough to guarantee its viability. However, approving the European Commission’s proposal leaves the door open to seeing this sports car on the street. First because it would be complying with the regulations and second because, given that it is a niche car with few sales expected, it would be easy to offset the emissions with other vehicles from the firm or with the purchase of emissions credits. It remains to be seen, however, the future of Mazda in Europe. The restrictions are so tough over the next 10 years that they threaten to thin the firm’s product portfolio. Right now, its only competitive electric comes from China and the second model It will also be a purely Chinese car. The rest of its range is made up of cars with large combustion engines with emissions that go well above the 93.6 gr/km of CO2 with which they have to comply in 2027. What is certain is that a change of this type in the regulations paves the way for a different car. One of those cars that are worth dreaming about to break the monotony of an increasingly standardized market. Photo | Mazda In Xataka | Mazda wants to reinvent the electric car with an electric car that is not entirely electric. In China they have improved the idea

Australia’s idea to survive its own solar success

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In Australia, solar energy has gone from being the promise of the future to a problem of the present. There is so much sun, and so many panels, that the electrical grid is reeling from excess production. During the middle of the day, millions of rooftops feed electricity back into the system, generating more energy than the grid can absorb without losing stability. At that time, wholesale prices fall to zero and even negative values. The solution that the Australian government has found is as simple as it is disruptive: giving away electricity for three hours a day. The challenge of excess. Australia has been experiencing its particular energy paradox for years: the transition towards renewables has advanced so quickly that the system is beginning to suffer its consequences. More than four million homes —one in three— have solar panels on their roofs. This distributed generation already produces more electricity than all the coal plants still active. According to Reutersthe program, dubbed “Solar Sharer”, will allow millions of homes to access three hours of free energy a day, even those who do not have solar panels. “People who can move their electricity consumption to the zero-cost period will benefit directly, whether or not they have solar panels and are homeowners or tenants,” explained Energy Minister Chris Bowen. Energy for everyone. The plan is not optional for electricity companies: the Australian Government will require them to offer three hours of free electricity each day during the midday solar peak. The measure will start in 2026 in New South Wales, South Australia and southeast Queensland, and will be extended to the rest of the country if it works as expected. To make it possible, the Executive will modify the Default Market Offer (BMD)the benchmark fee that limits what retailers can charge. From now on, that rate will include a daily slot of zero cost, just when the grid is saturated with solar energy. Participating households must have a smart meter and reorganize their consumption: run the washing machine, charge the car or turn on the air conditioning when the sun is at its highest. A double objective. On the one hand, it seeks to relieve pressure on the grid and reduce emissions. According to the Financial Timesthe plan seeks to utilize excess solar capacity and rebalance the electrical grid to reduce dependence on coal and gas. Tim Buckley, director of the Climate Energy Finance think tank, called it an “obvious” measure, as it will create a “demand pool” in the middle of the day, helping to stabilize the system. The Australian Government has been committed to accelerating the energy transition for some time. In 2022, Bowen set a goal for 82% of electricity to come from renewable sources by 2030, as detailed by Reuters. Initiatives like the Solar Sharer They are added to the subsidy for domestic batteries, which will allow part of that free energy to be stored for night use. Not everyone is happy. The Australian Energy Council (AEC), the consortium that brings together the main electricity companies, criticized the Government for not having consulted the sector before the announcement. Its executive director, Louise Kinnear, warned that “Lack of consultation risks damaging sector confidence and generating unintended consequences.” Additionally, some companies fear the plan will increase network costs and force smaller retailers out of the market. According to FTemployers fear that the measure will distort competition, although defenders of the plan assure that the real risk is not acting in the face of a saturated network. Despite this, large players such as AGL Energy and Ovo Energy have shown willingness to collaborate with the Government to define the technical details. From Australia to Spain. The Australian proposal has sparked interest in other sunny countries, especially in southern Europe, where solar energy has also grown explosively. From there the inevitable question arises: can we replicate it in Spain? Being one of the largest photovoltaic powers in Europe and with negative price episodes In the electricity market, it is logical to consider this possibility. However, the Spanish electrical system goes through a phase of instability: while the south of the peninsula produces more solar energy than it consumes, the north continues to depend on gas plants, the only ones capable of providing the “inertia” necessary to stabilize the network. Although the hourly tariff system and smart meters would allow the Australian measure to be technically replicated, the European framework prevents offering free electricity directly. The price is set in the wholesale market, managed by OMIE, and the State cannot intervene except through subsidies or discounts. In short: Spain has the sun and the technology, but not the regulatory flexibility. As noted by analyst Joaquín Coronado“we have the generation of the future, but we continue to use the crutches of the past.” The global experiment. Giving away electricity to avoid a collapse of the grid may seem contradictory, but it contains a lesson about the energy transition: the problem of the 21st century will not be producing energy, but managing it. While Europe debates how to lower the bill, Australia has chosen to share its excess. If the plan works, it could become a reference for other countries with strong solar penetration, such as Spain or Italy. In the words of Minister Chris Bowen“the more people take advantage of the offer and transfer their consumption, the greater the benefits will be for everyone.” Perhaps the future of energy is not just about paying less, but about using light when the sun gives it away. Image | Unsplash Xataka | 75% of the universe is made up of unknown matter. Australia has gone down to look for him in a mine

We are going to see a lot of strange things as platforms fight to survive

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The platform war is increasing, and given the atomization that we have been seeing for years (each production company with its own platforms), we started attending to some apparently unnatural pairings but that make all the commercial sense in the world. The latest: Netflix wants to promote content that it had not entered into until now: podcasts. To do this, it partners with another digital communication giant, Spotify. From the digital hand. Netflix and Spotify have signed an agreement which can mark a turning point in the world of streaming audio and video. The pact will allow Netflix to distribute a selection of video podcasts produced by Spotify Studios and The Ringer, the label founded by sports journalist Bill Simmons and acquired by Spotify in 2020. The official launch is scheduled for early 2026 in the United States, with international expansion plans throughout the same year.​ Everyone against YouTube. The alliance places both companies in a competitive position against YouTube, until now a benchmark in the long-form video format with conversational content. Unlike what happens on the Google portal, where the main financing model is advertising, Netflix will not include ads, while Spotify will maintain control of the podcast advertising inventory, which reinforces its business strategy based on creator monetization more than in dependence on the user and subscriptions. The programs. Due to the language barrier, not well known outside the United States, although that could change. The initial catalog will include 16 video podcasts. Some of them are: The Bill Simmons Podcast: sport and pop culture. The Rewatchables: analysis of iconic films The Dave Chang Show: conversations about food culture. Conspiracy Theories and Serial Killers: true crime. Dissect: in-depth analysis of historical records. Also abundant sports programs, a specialty of The Ringer: The Ringer NBA Show, The Ringer NFL Show and Fairway Rollin’. Spotify and podcasts. Since 2023, Spotify is increasing its presence in the podcast landscape after years of heavy investments. The company invested more than a billion dollars in famous exclusive contractslike those of The Joe Rogan Experience or Call Her Daddy. But high costs and the evolution of the podcast landscape led it to abandon the exclusivity policy. For some time now it has decided to reinforce its bet on videosince the video podcasts register a growth twenty times greater than audio-only programs, according to account TechCrunch. Netflix wants variety. As for Netflix, this fits perfectly into its diversification policy: Ted Sarandos, co-CEO, had already advanced in April 2025 the intention to incorporate conversational and experimental video content. It is normal for it to join forces with Spotify to fight Youtubewhich has grown noticeably since the public began to stream your content from television. Two super two. The alliance also allows Spotify to avoid the high infrastructure costs that would entail maintaining its own streaming service. streaming videowhile Netflix obtains a volume of new content that does not require large production investments. It is a beneficial collaboration for both content giants: while Spotify expands the spaces where it can be consumed, Netflix diversifies its catalog with a reasonable investment. Header | kit in Unsplash / Netflix In Xataka | Spain is one of the most important “sets” in Europe: the platforms already invest 2,000 million in filming here

125,000 years ago the Neanderthals ate bones to survive. Today we discovered that they were right

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In the police comedy Brooklyn 99during a party the detective Charles Boyle meets the gastronomic writer Vivian Ludley, with whom he talks about the last meal on earth. The policeman, in a clamor for his love of French food, chooses El Hortelano: a tiny French bird that eats a single bite, with skin, viscera and bones. “A challenge to God”, They call it. Vivian replies that the practice is illegal, But he confesses that he had academic permission to try one: “The peak was very crispy,” he recalls with fascination. The scene may seem eccentric, but opens a question that is not less: what is in the bones that makes them so valuable – at the same time so controversial – in the history of food? Western oblivion. For centuries, the bones were a natural part of the human diet. The neardentals They came to ride “Fats of fat” in places like Neumark-Nord (Germany), where 125,000 years ago they broke bones of deer, horses and cattle to extract marrow and heat fragments with water until obtainable lipids. It was not a whim: it was survival, a way to avoid the so -called starvation of the rabbit, caused by eating too much lean protein without sufficient fat. Later, many cultures continued with practice. In sub -Saharan Africa, for example, rural communities even chew long bones as part of the daily diet. In Asia it is common to eat flags and fins of fried fish until they are crispy. And in Europe, popular cuisine always turned to the thorns of canned sardines and anchovies, softened by sterilization. However, speaking today of what bones are as such, this practice of consuming them disappeared. Most meat reaches the clean, boneless plate, ready to avoid discomforts. The bone has been relegated to the secondary paper of the broth. As Chef Jennifer McLAGAN explains: “We no longer see bones as useful. People consider them a discomfort, something to get rid of.” But that perception begins to crack through The search for “superfood”and the bones are on the table again. What is inside the bones? The short response would be essential nutrients. But I will not be so simplistic, the bones are mainly formed by calcium and phosphorusin addition to containing iron, magnesium and potassium. In protein terms, up to a 25 and 33% of the content of an animal It corresponds to collagen, a key structural protein for bones, skin and joints. In my case, I discovered it by accident. After an injury doing crossfitthe traumatologist told me about the importance of collagen To recover fabrics. Beyond prescribing supplements – which also opened the door to the veal bone broths, rich in natural collagen. It was my first conscious contact with this part of the animal we usually throw without thinking. Science behind. In a National Geographic report describe how bones They are one of the denser tissues in nutrients: they provide collagen, fat marrow and minerals. But science clarifies. An article, Posted in Frontiers in Nutritionpoints out that the benefits are modest: some trials show minor improvements in skin and joints, although with methodological limitations. A meta -analysis in Orthopec Reviews It points positive effects on bone and articulating health, but insists on the need for broader and standardized studies. In addition, we are not designed to bite hard bones: they can splinter, damage teeth or pierce the digestive tract. And large animals bones tend to accumulate heavy metals such as lead or cadmium, which advise against consuming them in excess or un controlled dust, According to Healthline. The heat and pressure of the long broths allow to extract collagen and minerals safely, and some studies They suggest a certain benefit when ingesting collagen peptides. However, the reviews of the studies consulted coincide: Quality trials are missing, with standardized protocols and clear clinical markers. A new trend? The interest in bones does not happen in a vacuum. A couple of months ago, the “Carnivorous Diet” for Babies: families that offer ribs or cord to their children as part of the Baby-Led Weaning. Health and expert authorities They coincide in which to introduce meat from six months is recommended by its iron and zinc. But they warn that a strictly carnivorous diet in babies lacks fiber and vitamin C, essential nutrients for development. At the same time, startups in Europe and Asia experiment with powdered bone -based products: breads, sausages, patches or nuggets that incorporate calcium and collagen without bothering the consumer. According to National Geographicthe initial results are positive: when the bone appears as an invisible ingredient, acceptance is high. Collagen is more present. Korean cosmetics and social networks They have converted To the collagen in a global phenomenon, associated not only to joint or bone health, but above all to beauty and anti -aging. From facial creams to soluble coffee powders, the promise is to erase wrinkles, combat sagging and rejuvenate the skin. However, skeptical voices such as that of the surgeon Afshin mosahebi Remember that scientific evidence It is limited and that, by ingesting it, the collagen does not reach the dermis: it decomposes in amino acids like any other protein. The bone broth is a nutritious and comforting classic, but Not a guaranteed age. The real secret to aging well is still in basic habits: do not smoke, protect from the sun, maintain a balanced diet and sleep enough. An unexpected return. Of the “fat factories” Neanderthals to Korean cosmetics, bones have accompanied humanity in multiple forms. Today they return to the scene between broths and collagen powders. The difference is that, this time, they do not arrive as a resource of survival, but as a market as a product: what was previously thrown, is now sold as a trend. Image | Freepik Xataka | Boomers trust pills and supplement, generation Z in “functional snacks”: two ways to look for the same

74,000 years ago, a volcanic eruption led humanity to the edge of extinction. We begin to understand how we survive

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74,000 years ago, in a remote lake north of Sumatra, a volcano erupted. But it wasn’t a normal volcano. According to archaeologist Jayde N. Hiniak“The Toba expelled 2,800 cubic kilometers of ash to the stratosphere, created a crater of 1,000 soccer fields” and caused a global winter. That could take our species to the edge of extinction: for more than half a century, many anthropologists are convinced that it was that eruption (one of the greatest known eruptions) that reduced the human population to about 10,000 fertile couples. It would be the most critical moment of Homo Sapiens since it arose. It is true that the theory is controversial and the debate around the real climate change that the Toba created is still very alive; However, no one doubts that what happened that day in Sumatra was a huge catastrophe. And that can be seen in archaeological remains. As Hiniak pointed out“Most archaeological sites show a history of resistance.” In areas such as South Africa or the lowlands of Ethiopia these climatic changes led to the adoption of technological innovations such as the development of arches and arrows. In much closer places (such as Indonesia, India or China), the population also suffered deep changes that allowed him to survive. All this can be known because the Toba left many geological samples distributed throughout the world. Studying the deposits before and after the ash of the volcano gives a lot of information on how these societies changed socio-technologically. The flexibility was key. Regardless of what Toba will cause (or not) drastic reduction Of the population, what is clear is that it allows us to draw conclusions about what was the fundamental feature that explains the survival of human communities: behavioral flexibility. Something that allows Image | Tetiana Grypachevska In Xataka | When Newton reached the fundamental laws of physics there was already a sign that said “Leonardo was here”

Nvidia is ready for the chip for the need to survive in China. Who is not ready to let him sell is the US government

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The journey in China of the Nvidia GPU for artificial intelligence (AI) H20 He has been full of ups and downs. Since this chip reached the Chinese market in mid -2024 its sales 50% quarter to quarter grewwhich positioned it as The most successful Nvidia product of recent years. However, this era of bonanza lasted little. And it is that in the middle of last April the US Department of Commerce decided impose export restrictions To China of the H20 GPU. After several weeks of negotiations with the US government Nvidia got the export license that he needed to sell his GPU for the H20 in China, but the joy lasted little. And it is that the Chinese government has vetoed this chip. And he has done so that the administration of the cyberspace of China, which is the main Internet regulatory body in this country, is thoroughly investigating this GPU because it suspects that it could incorporate a rear door of difficult location by Chinese experts. Nvidia engineers have been working on a new GPU for several months for expressly designed for the Chinese market. It will be called B30A And on his shoulders he will rest, neither more nor less, the future of the company led by Jensen Huang in China. This chip must necessarily meet two conditions. On the one hand it has to be more powerful than the GPU H20, and, in addition, it must satisfy the restrictions imposed by the US Department of Commerce. Otherwise Nvidia will not get the export license you need to be able to sell this chip in this Asian country. The future of the B30A GPU in China right now is uncertain Chinese companies that are dedicated to the development of large AI models are trapped. On the one hand they are being forced to deal with the export restrictions of the GPU imposed by the US government. And, in addition, they are subject to their own dependence on American technology. A priori the optimal solution for them would be to stop buying Nvidia and other US companies their chips for AI, and getting “comparable” GPUs proposed by Huawei, Change either Moore Threadsamong other Chinese companies. Jensen Huang has just recognized that his next GPU will take to arrive in the country led by Xi Jinping However, as explained in your article to Foreign Policy The American analyst Kyle Chan, the scenario they face is more complicated than it seems. And it is that abandoning Nvidia in practice is very difficult. According to ChanTencent, Bytedance, Alibaba and other Chinese companies They prefer GPUs for Nvidia Because its performance is greater, especially when facing the training processes of their AI models. However, they especially opt for the chips of this American company thanks to CUDA (Compute Unified Device Architecture). Most of the AI ​​projects that are currently being developed are implemented on CUDA. This technology brings together the compiler and development tools used by programmers to develop their software for NVIDIA GPUs, and replace it with another option in the projects that are already underway it is a problem. Huawei, who aspires to an important portion From this market in China, it has Cann (Compute Architecture for Neural Networks), which is its alternative to CUDA, but for the moment CUDA dominates the market. In these circumstances, the B30A chip that is putting to point Nvidia has all the meaning of the world. Presumably It will be half powerful that the most advanced GPU this company currently has, The B300 chipbut, even so, it is reasonable to assume that will overcome performance of all the chips for the developed in China, especially when facing the training processes of the AI ​​models. This is the best asset that Nvidia has, but Jensen Huang has just recognized that its next GPU will take to arrive in the country led by Xi Jinping. And it will not be because it is not ready. It will be because the US Trade Department will take long to give it approval, if it finally gives it. What is happening to Nvidia in China is a full -fledged soap opera. Image | Nvidia More information | Reuters In Xataka | The US gives Huawei a great opportunity: to get its new chip for AI with the Nvidia market in China

This guy existed and scientifically demonstrated that Jack could survive

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We will never know for sure if James Cameron was aware during the filming of ‘Titanic‘Of what I was filming. What I have less doubts is that I knew perfectly the end I had to give to the story. At this point we do not discover anything with the death of poor Jack so that Rose remained afloat, although the doubt will always be there. Could I have survived? It turns out that the answer was in a frame of the movie. Let’s go first with one of the most famous deaths in the history of cinema. It is because, in essence, Jack could have saved Perfectly, or so we think many. Where one fits, two are always possible, but the character of DiCaprio decided that he left Rose’s entire table while she, far from forcing him to get on, dedicated herself to contemplating him curled up while the protagonist dies agonally and her parts freely freeze. The controversy was served. Myth hunters appear In 2012, the popular program raises the debate with a live test. What do they do? A drill with dolls and a small recreation of the film’s board. Indeed, the table leans, but when they tried the feat with a large -scale replica, they discovered that Rose could have removed the life jacket and place it under the plank to add extra float. The method lifted the table in such a way that most of their bodies (80%) were out of the water while floating. The conclusion from the program was clear, “Jack’s death was unnecessary.” The video of the Mythbusters went viral and Cameron soon came out in his defense. The director replied that people “were losing their meaning” with the whole issue of the character of the character. In 2017, Cameron began to be fed up with the question and called him sadist or had little scientific rigor. In the past he had already recognized that the character’s death was simply and plain An artistic licensebut seeing that no one paid attention to him, he opted for try the situation that occurs in Titanic. “It was in the water with the wood table, placing people on it for approximately two days, and studying exactly if it was buoyant enough to endure the weight of a person with full free space, which means that their body was not immersed in the water so that it could survive the hours that lasted until the ship came,” explained. So could it have been saved? Two years ago, Cameron, given the insistence of many fans of the film, went out to say something that until then was unknown. In an interview with Half The Toronto Sun He revealed that he had documented a “Scientific study“That shows that two people could not have survived at the floating door at the end of ‘Titanic’. “We have conducted a scientific study to end all this and nail a stake in the heart once and for all,” Cameron said. “Since then we have performed an exhaustive forensic analysis with an expert in hypothermia that reproduced the filly raft and we are going to make a small special about it.” Apparently, in this study they took two specialists who had the same body mass of Kate and DiCaprio, they put sensors throughout the body, “and we put them in ice water to see if they could have survived through a variety of methods. The answer was that there was no way that both could have survived. Only one could survive.” In addition, he added that “Jack needed to die. It is so, as in Romeo and Julieta. It is a film about love, sacrifice and mortality.” The baker Be an artistic license or not, the truth is that Cameron knew something that went unnoticed by many spectators at the premiere of the film. Among the many historical characters that are strategically placed in the film and representing real lives that embarked on the Titanic, one of them was the answer that fans expected at the end of Jack. Your real name: Charles Joughina guy who embarked on the Titanic to work as head of the transatlantic pastry and bakery section. Joughin, 33, was resting in his cabin when on April 14 the Titanic hit the iceberg. He was in charge of sending the greatest amount of food to supply life boats, and while doing so, he “gave” the bottle. This was recorded in The British Government Commission during the research on the sinking of Titanic. “I went down to my room for a drink,” Joughin declaredadding that I had A bottle of whiskey in his cabin that would accompany him the rest of the fateful day. The man then climbed and helped women and children enter the boats, and from time to time, he gave the bottle, which possibly calmed him and made the situation of chaos that was lived more bearable. And here comes the time (actually appears several times, but this is the clearest) in which reality and fiction come together (Min. 01:22 of the video). The film shows us Joughin, played by actor Liam Tuohy, in the same company as Jack (Dicaprio) and Rose (Winslet) and the Titanic departing in two. However, unlike the film, it is said that the “baker” remained as the only individual at the end of the Titanic while rising in the air, was suspended for a moment and then sank into the ocean. “I don’t think my head will sink underwater, really. It may have been wet, but up there,” declared in the investigation. Joughin was, therefore, one of the survivors who found himself floating in the icy waters of the North Atlantic (like Jack) and lived to tell it. As? The researchers explained that it is estimated that LAt water temperature that night was -2 ° C. In addition, we must have the impact of immersion in such frozen waters, which is why the majority died in just a few minutes. We know … Read more

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It was suffocating heat From the first hour, and from afar, nothing suggested that something could twist. An Air India plane took speed on the track of Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel International Airportin Ahmedabad, he raised the nose and took off. But just a few seconds later, everything changed: he began to lose height and ended up crashing into a residence for doctors. The tail of Boeing 787 Dreamliner It was embedded among the remains. What seemed like a total tragedy, without any margin for hope, took an unexpected turn just a few hours later. During the first minutes, the figures were devastating: 242 people on board, and any news of survivors. The magnitude of the disaster did not seem to leave place for exceptions. Until A video began to circulate in social networks and Indian media. In the material, a man advances, with traces of blood, and staggers towards an ambulance. A few hours later, The Interior Ministry of India confirmed What many could not believe: among the passengers of flight AI171, There was a survivor. The man in seat 11A How Hindustan Times points outIt is Vishwashkumar Ramesh, a 40 -year -old British citizen who was traveling back to London with her brother, also aboard the flight. He occupied the 11A seat, a row next to an emergency exit. He arrived at the hospital with multiple injuries, disoriented, but out of danger. His case was confirmed by the Indian authorities and by his own Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who visited the hospital this Friday and briefly met him. From his bed at the Civil Hospital of Ahmedabad, Vishwashkumar Ramesh spoke with several Indian media about the moments he lived inside the plane. His story, brief and choppy, has been one of the few direct windows inside the flight. In an interview with DD News Vía BBC said there was a time when the plane seemed as if it were “stuck in the air.” Ramesh continued to explain that “the lights began to flash in green and white” before the collision. “The (emergency) door was broken, I saw that there was a hole. I tried to go out there. And I did. ” Ramesh explained that he was on the side of the plane that was at the ground level and did not hit the facade of the building. “The other part was embedded in the wall. No one could have left there,” added the only survivor of the tragic accident. In another statement, Collection by Hindustan Timeshe explained: “When I joined, there were bodies around me. I was scared. I got up and ran. There were pieces of the plane everywhere. ” The video that showed Ramesh walking towards an ambulance, broadcast shortly after the accident, was the first proof that someone had managed to leave the fuselage in flames. His words make it clear: “I still can’t believe how I have survived.” How do you survive such an impact? The question is still open. There is no official explanation on how it managed to survive Ramesh. Nor has it determined If your location on the plane was decisive Not if any structural factor influenced its output. What does exist is technical information about the variables that are usually analyzed in this type of scenarios. The Washington Post collects the perspective From Anthony Brickhouse, American consultant in air security with almost three decades of experience in the accident survival study. The expert says that researchers usually focus on three main factors: The level of force G at the time of impact. The structure of the plane that surrounds the passenger. The conditions after the clash, such as fires or injuries. “This man survived something that should not be possible to survive. I can’t scientifically explain how he succeeded.” Asked about whether certain seats are safer than others, In statements to NewsweekGraham Braithwaite, director of the Aviation Area at Cranfield University, said “is a very difficult question to answer.” He added: “While this does not serve as comfort to those affected by the tragic accident that occurred yesterday, the answer is simple: all the seats of modern aircraft are incredibly safe.” An unprecedented accident for Dreamliner Ai171 Air India flight was destined London. He took off from Ahmedabad airport on Thursday, June 12 at 1:30 p.m. (local time), with 242 people on board: 230 passengers and 12 crew members. Less than a minute later, he crashed into a residence of doctors of the BJ Medical College, located on the perimeter of the airport. More than two hundred people died, including several students who were in the dining room at that time. The security cameras captured the sequence: the plane took height, stabilized briefly and then struck to crash and explode on fire. The causes of the accident have not yet been determined. The aircraft was a Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner, a model introduced in 2009 and recognized for its fuel and autonomy efficiency. Until the moment of the incident, the Dreamliner accumulated more than a thousand units delivered and no fatal accident registered in commercial operations. The wrecked apparatus was delivered to Air India in 2014 and had made more than 8,000 take -offs and landings, according to data from the firm Cirium. The General Directorate of Civil Aviation of India reported that the pilots issued a Mayday emergency signal after takeoff, but there was no more communication from the cabin. A few hours after the impact, the authorities confirmed the recovery of one of the black boxes. The analysis of the flight data registrar will be key to clarify what happened. Experts consulted by international means have indicated that unusual configurations are observed in the take -off video, such as the deployed landing gear and the flaps without extending, although for now there are no official conclusions. Images | Interior Minister of India (1, 2) | Prime Minister of India (1, 2) In Xataka | We prepare to say goodbye to Windows 10, but part of the US Air … Read more

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