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The fourth iPhone syndrome

September 10, 2025 by usatoday24

Apple just present the new iPhone. We already have all the characteristics of the iPhone 17 and of the iPhone 17 Pro and Pro Max. Of which we have not had news is from an iPhone Plus because, simply, it does not exist anymore. Instead, we have the iPhone Air. Apple carries years obsessed with an idea: the fourth iPhone. And during all that time, Things have not done well. This year there is no iPhone 17 plusa family with warm results The one that has ended up cutting off the wings to bet on a new trend: that of ultra -launching mobiles. Because the iPhone Air does not stand out in technical characteristics if we compare it with the rest of the family, but if for something it stands out it is for a thickness of just 5.6 millimeters. Forks Apple’s weapon to stand up in an unexplored niche in which its greatest rival, Samsung, has already positioned itself with the Galaxy S25 Edge. iPhone Air and Apple’s desire Until the launch of the iPhone 5sthose of the apple only had one model every year, but in a market that advanced at high speed and with great competition, in 2013 they threw themselves into the pool with the iPhone 5C. It went so bad that they wanted to repeatbecause it was a iPhone 5but cut at a price that made it unattractive. Later they began launching larger plus models, but in 2021 they tried again to position themselves with a new product: the iPhone 12 Mini. It was an iPhone 12, but in a smaller format. The following year they repeated with the iPhone 13 Mini that solved the main problem of the previous one -autonomy -but the accounts still did not leave. Simply, the market was talking and I shouted bigger screens. The diagonal of the phones did nothing more than increase and less and less small mobiles were thrown. Even asus, whose zenfone were champions of this niche, They deposed the weapons With the latest generations, hugging the biggest screens. Apple was clear: if the market wanted large screens, that would give the market, and that’s how they created (again) Plus models. The latest generations have had iPhone 14 Plus, iPhone 15 Plus and iPhone 16 Plusmobiles that were like the ‘normal’ model, but with more screen and battery. But as the mini (although perhaps not in such a beast), the plus models have not finished curdling. The user who wants to spend the least possible money on an iPhone goes for the normal one. And the one who is willing to stretch the budget to buy the plus, If stretches a little more it reaches the PROr, with better screen, best processor and more versatile cameras. The Plus were running out of hole, but Apple’s story is clear: They sell more the more models they offer. Taking that into account, Those of Cupertino have redesigned the iPhone and have not limited themselves to launching one with a screen of different dimensions: The iPhone Air does not carry a “17” because it does not need it: it is unique. It is a new member of the family that comes to live with the rest, not in the shadow. It has only one camera, yes, but the processor is the same A19 Pro that we find on the iPhone 17 Pro and Pro Max. It is a different bet for an Apple that wants to have that fourth iPhone compatible with the rest of its range, that smartphone that is not “the cheap iPhone” or “the most pro iPhone”, but the one that attracts attention by itself. Memories of Jony Ive Apple And yes, it draws attention, but here the question will be resolved within a few months. Because the response to whether the user needs a 5.6 millimeter mobile thickness (which implies in battery limitation, for example) will be elucidated when the List of the best -selling mobiles. In the end, that Apple’s strategy is successful or not, will be responded with sales, which It was what ended the compactsbut in the absence of having that thermometer, there is something obvious: whoever wants this iPhone Air should be very clear that it needs – or wants – that extreme thinness, because The price is on complicated land: 260 euros more expensive than the iPhone 17 … and 100 euros cheaper than the iPhone 17 Pro. It will also have to be clear that It means goodbye to esim. But The iPhone Air has an ace in the sleeve: The Apple of recent years has been blamed that it is late for trends (AI is a very clear example), But with an ultra -elapsed mobile, it comes from the first to this unexplored land in which, apart from Samsung, There are other brands like Tecno. In Xataka | I don’t know any photography. But since I discovered this free app, I feel that my photos with the mobile play in another league

It affects few people, but Williams syndrome can help us understand new details about human evolution

June 8, 2025 by usatoday24

Williams syndrome is a condition with its own “personality.” And it is not quite a way of speaking, some call it “personality of the Williams syndrome”And it is one of the features that usually characterize people with this uncommon condition. Let’s start at the beginning: What is Williams syndrome. The origin of this can be found in the genes of the people in which it manifests itself, specifically in chromosome seven. The absence of a region that covers between 25 and 28 genes is what causes the appearance of the syndrome. This absence can be hereditary. Although most cases are not inherited but the result of chance, who manifest this syndrome have a 50% chance of transmitting it to their descendants. This is because it is a Dominant autosomal inheritance. The syndrome affects a person between 18,000 and 7,500and does it similarly regardless of sex. According to Explain in The conversation Deborah Riby, expert from Durham University, this syndrome usually comes associated with some concrete facial features But also with problems that affect the health of those who are born with him, including heart problems and difficulties when feeding. This syndrome is usually rigged with intellectual disabilities that can be between mild and moderate, but perhaps their most defining feature, and is greater extraversion and trust. The “Williams Syndrome Personality“Includes traits, Riby explains, as the greatest sensitivity and consciousness that occurs in parallel to the difficulties that people with this syndrome present. “Many individuals are highly mad (…), some are music experts and the large majority are highly social. ‘Extroven‘,’ Over-amygible ‘, and’ emotionally sensitive ‘, are frequently used descriptions to describe (this personality), ” Riby details In your article. People with this syndrome, very often, present hyperacusia, an extreme auditory sensitivity that can be responsible for high levels of anxiety. Levels that in turn can be disabling. These features are rigged with A vulnerability related, and that is that people with the syndrome can be excessively confident, explained to the BBC Alyson Muotri, from the University of California, San Diego (UCSD). Contrary to autism? The different vision of social exchanges that characterizes people with this syndrome makes some see this syndrome as “The opposite of autism”. The idea that this disorder is an opposite to autism is also nuanceable, says Riby. “There are several cognitive domains that are problematic in both disorders. Deficits in nonverbal behavior such as visual contact, facial expressions, interpretation of gestures, are widely documented. Additionally, we know that both disorders are associated with difficulties in sensory processing, high anxieties and repetitive behaviors or restrictive interests,” Riby adds to your article. The existence of this type of relationship, both similarities and differences, lead to the possibility that learning more about one could lead us to better know the other. Especially, Riby proposes, knowing more details about this syndrome of such clear genetic origin can give us clues about the biological mechanisms that determine the appearance of something as complex as autism is. And this is not the only way in which this syndrome can help us advance in the knowledge of our own species. Some experts seek how to take advantage of this to find out new data on how they evolved as human traits, trust or sympathy. Studies on this syndrome have managed to link some of their features with the disappearance of one gene or another. Interestingly, experts They have not found the gene “Limiting sympathy” whose disappearance makes these people more extroverted and friendly. In Xataka | The chromosome and is disappearing … What will be of men? Image | Xataka with chatgpt /

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