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This game has been scheduled by only one person, and there is already talk of him as one of the great shooters of the year

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The ‘Void/Breaker’ trailer caught the attention of fans in the Great Night of the GamescomOpening Night Live, when it was announced that it was already available on Steam and PC Game Pass (in the future it will also be for PS5 and Xbox). His frantic rhythm and his style and humor, which seemed to connect with classics like ‘Portal‘, liked the respectable, although his big surprise is that being a game that is already drawing the attention of the experts Shootershas been developed by a single person. Eternal return. ‘Void/Breaker’ is a Shooter with structure of Roguelitezambuyéro completely in the Fashion mechanics In the current indie panorama, and justifies it argumentatively: the protagonist is trapped in a continuous cycle of destruction designed by an AI that uses human subjects to test combat variables. That is, you will die again and again facing randomly generated enemies while another human tries to help you escape: it is a person who died before you, but whose mind has ended up trapped in the program, which allows him to give you weapons, help and clues. Forget about the argument. What matters here is the unbeatable structure of frantic and cyclical games, spurred by slight improvements and by a sense of absurd humor of a robotic voice that tries to convince you that you live the best of possible existers, which undoubtedly reminds the classic ‘portal’ and its silly jokes with a very black transfus. You will not get bored of it, nor will you get bored of the enemies: being randomly generated, each new game is that, completely new. In addition to winning skills and improvements, some permanent ones. A titan. The most striking thing about the game is that it has been developed by a single person, and despite this it has an absolutely brilliant finish, which rivals spectacularly with much more ambitious games. Of course, it is easy to see what aspects has spared Daniel Stubbingtonvisible head of Stubby Games, to carry ‘void/breaker’ to fruition. We are not facing a blockbuster in terms of visual luxury, but in terms of gameplay: The satisfactory of the most powerful weapons, the destruction of scenarios, the gravity gun, infinitely improvable as progress is made … all of the first category. The goat throws the mountain. Stubbington already had a previous game that remembered Portal, ‘The Entropy Center‘, which in many ways is an essay of findings that will then return to’ Void/Breaker ‘: also uses a first person perspective, but we are facing a puzzle that instead of using a gun of portals such as the Valve classic, uses a rifle whose shots rewind in time what they reach. Complex and Machiavellian, it is one of those ridiculously quiet and ridiculously addictive games, although the action was not entirely in the equation, anticipating the next Stubbington game. With one you fix. In times when the industry is desperate to find ways of reduce the increasingly brutal development times (that is, to reduce the budgets absolutely out of mother), it is striking as some of the great successes of recent times are developed by a single person. Indies teams minimal are common since games like ‘Braid’ emerged, but lately we are seeing successes like ‘Balatro‘ either ‘The Blue Prince‘, whose most commented characteristic is that they are developed by a single person, and it is inevitable that we think that another industry is possible. If possible. Moreover, it is due. In Xataka | The 29 best free games for PC: Shooters, MMORPGS, driving and strategy

In Spain there is no summer without forest fires. Nor in which you do not talk about the fearsome rule of 30-30-30

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In Spain there is no summer without beaches. Nor without fire. Fire is hitting areas of Galicia, Castilla y León, Catalonia either Andalusia, sweeping hectaresforcing to evacuate hundreds of people and affecting even to icons like the place of Las Médulasin the Bierzo. With that backdrop, firefighters remain attentive to a key factor in forest fires. Which? The ‘rule of 30-30-30’. What is the ‘Rule of 30-30-30’? A formula that helps us understand when the elements play against firefighters and favor of forest fires. It is not new And it has above all a didactic dimension, but if something cannot be denied to the ‘Rule 30-30-30’ (o ‘rule of 30’) is that it is intuitive. Basically, what identifies are those scenarios in which the temperature exceeds 30ºC, the wind gusts exceed 30 km/Hy the relative humidity is below 30%, conditions that facilitate the expansion of the flames. Why is it interesting? Because as remember The University of Chile (Uchile) offers “an alert signal”, an indicator that recalls that there have been a cluster of “very favorable conditions” to spread the fire. “The origin of the term is not scientifically demonstrated, but approaches the conditions of extreme care that the manager should take knowledge to take measures,” Miguel Castillo explainsCenter researcher. The ‘Rule of 30-30-30’ stands out for its practical nature, especially when planning fire prevention strategies and informing the population. “It’s useful”, summarize The academic. “For example, if the meteorology indicates that in 72 hours a burst of permanent and dry wind will arrive and the conditions will not fall from the 30ºC or 32ºC, the communities should establish certain mechanisms.” Do more factors influence? Yes. Perhaps heat, intense winds and low humidity are “the ingredients of a perfect storm” for the spread of forest fires, but castle itself remember that there is another crucial factor: the human. Their own data The Ministry of Environment shows that a good part of the great fires that are declared in Spain cause them accidents, negligence or even intentionally. WWF in fact calculates that 95% of fires respond to human causes and 53% are deliberately caused. Man also influences the state of the fields and mountains. “The strong depopulation and rural aging, the cessation of traditional agricultural activities, the absence of forest exploitation and serious policies that manage the territory has transformed the territory,” Remember wwf. “This increase in forest surface does not translate into the increase in healthy, stable and diverse forests. The cultivated and grazing areas in the past are today covered by thickets, young pioneer or monoespecific rods that, without adequate management, are condemned to burn sooner or later. “ Is the ’30’ rule fulfilled? As Castillo recalls, the ‘Rule 30-30-30’ is useful when preventing disasters and alerting the population. Reality however is something more complex. A few years ago Civio analyzed The large forest fires registered between 2007 and 2016 and proved how many of them were adjusted to the ’30 rule’, that is, they had given the mercury above 30ºC, wind gusts of more than 30 km/hyo a humidity of less than 30%. What did you find out? That were adjusted to those parameters 72 of a total of 196 fires, about 37%. The key is again the one that slides the Chilean expert: at stake more factors enter the strictly climatic. “In the devastating expansion of a great fire you have to take into account other variables such as the type of vegetation and topography,” Comment Miguel Ángel Soto, from Greenpeace. Going down to detail. If we analyze the different factors of the ‘rule of 30’ separately, we verify, however, they do influence forest fires. Of the 196 registered fires between 2007 and 2016, in 153 the windfall exceeded 30 km/h. In 80 the temperatures reached or exceeded 30ºC. “The great fires occur by a cocktail effect: the more elements introduce in the shaker, the more possibilities you have to face an ungovernable fire,” agrees Soto “If the ‘rule of 30’ is fulfilled we will be facing the worst possible scenario, but if there are two variables it is also serious.” The last fires that have hit in recent days Galicia, Castilla y León, Andalusia either Cataloniasweeping thousands of hectares, have coincided with a heat wave. In the Bierzo, which has seen the medulla, the thermometer passes from 30ºC with relative humidity levels that have been below 30%. Image | Civil Guard (X) In Xataka | In 1993, an author predicted devastating fires in Los Angeles of 2025 and the “Make America Great Again”

What you will do is talk to him

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Microsoft knows that the mouse and keyboard can be two news. PCs and laptops still make sense, but want to prepare them with a Windows version that is adapted to what is coming. And what is coming is AI and voice. So they are starting and they already have their particular vision of what Windows will be like in 2030. Of mouse and keyboard, (little o) nothing. “The world of mice and keyboards will be as strange then for people as it is now more for generation Z”. This blunt was David Weston, director of Microsoft, In a video posted this week by the company with the title “2030 Vision” (something like “our vision of how 2030”). This executive explained that the Windows operating system will probably be very different from the one we have now. At least, in its use interface. Multimodal Or what is the same: voice. Weston also highlighted how “the future version of Windows will interact multimodal. The computer will be able to see what we seehear what we hear and we can talk to him and ask for much more sophisticated things. “Voice interaction will undoubtedly be one of the keys, and although the mouse and the keyboard will continue to have relevance, it is likely that the progression is clear: we will use them less because what we will do, simply, is to ask Windows things. Machine, do this for me. Thus, on the one hand We can ask simple things As “the resolution changes to 1920×1080”, “Open Slack”, “Write an email with the following text”, and for another more complex things such as “organizes a weekend in Salamanca and reserve the hotels and restorative after my confirmation” or “creates a presentation with Canva with the data of this document.” In these requests there will probably moments in which the user continues to intervene to correct or confirm tasks within the sequence that the system executes autonomously. An agricultural Windows. And it is that the key component of that future Windows will be an agricultural AI capable of chaining tasks autonomously to complete processes that a user asks. AI agents They already begin to show their potential in this regard, and we have seen that both those present in the PERPLEXITY CUTE browser and in Chatgpt agent They are able to see what we see on screen and act accordingly by moving the mouse or typing when necessary. Even They exceed some captchas If they need it! A feasible, but uncertain vision. The advance of AI is frantic, but AI agents They are not fulfilling for the moment With expectations and according to some studies they fail in the 70% of tasks. In this type of automated processes, the danger is also that of the compound error: by chaining actions, if there is an error in one of them, that error is becoming greater in each next phase. The risks are huge in all types of scenarios, but they are even more if users begin to use that capacity for delicate tasks with sensitive data of the type “Make me the income statement”. Nadella already warned it. More than a year ago Satya Nadella, CEO of Microsoft, already pointed to that future. He did it when he intervened in the Snapdragon Summit 2023, where said that “it will radically change what an operating system is, the aspect of a user interface and how it interacts with applications.” The browsers threaten. That agricultural interaction We are already beginning to see with the browserswhich are often the center of our experience with PCs and laptops, and that are gradually integrating those automation capabilities with AI agents. Both chatgpt agent and Perplexity Comet They show it, and Google is also preparing to do something similar in Chrome. It is expected that in Microsoft They also apply The story with Edge, which has long integrated Copilot. However, Microsoft’s vision is broader and affects the entire operating system, not just the browser. Image | Microsoft In Xataka | The GPT-5 paradox: OpenAi needs the greatest jump in the history of AI just when it seems most impossible

What is, what differentiates it and how to use it to talk to artificial intelligence characters

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Let’s explain What is Janitor aia popular website of characters based on artificial intelligence. We are going to tell you what their advantages are, their disadvantages, and what differentiates this website of alternatives such as Character AI. But if you have never heard of this type of websites, we will start with a simple explanation to know what it is. Then we will tell you its differentiating characteristics, and we will end up telling you how it works. What is Janitor ai Janitor AI is a platform for create and interact with artificial intelligence characters. This is a type of platforms that continues to grow, and becoming stronger according to the improper faculties to interact with people as if they were also real people. In this type of websites, you choose one of their personal and open a chat with them. There is a presentation or staging with a first message from the character, and then you can write anything. Grace is in interact with the character as if he were a real personalthough it really is an AI generating answers from the personality with which it has been created and what you have written first. This type of characters allows you perform text -based role -playing games. Just as if you were rooting with a person saying their part in their message, but with an AI. The possibilities of actions and situations are as many as you can imagine: you can make small scenes of specific moments, or a long -term role. In Janitor you can find a catalog of bots or characters from the de ia created by other users, they are currently more than 34,000. But also to be able to create your own characterconfiguring your story, your personality and everything you want. In addition, so that the conversations you have with the characters are better oriented to your liking, you can also Configure one or several “people”. These people with how the character to which you interpret, and you can add a description with features and characteristics that will take into account when interacting with you. What a difference from Janitor AI Janitor is a free platformto which many users who flee from Character AI and their payment plans come. Here, you can create a free profile and interact everything you want with the other bots. In addition to this, Janitor allows erotic conversations and interactions and sexual with the bots, as long as they respect some basic standards. But ultimately, just as other pages do not allow you to have these interactions or make you pay for them, in Janitor it is free and you can do it as you want. One thing in common with other platforms is that Each character has personality tags They serve to, on the screen where you can see them all, know the type of interaction they will offer. You will know if it is a man, woman or trans, you will know if it is dominant or quite the opposite, if it is human or a monster, if it includes a scenario, if it is designed to interact with men or women, if it is real or invented, if it is a villain, if it is done, or everything you can imagine. Janitor can only be used with a web pageand for the moment it has no official application. Therefore, either on the computer or on the mobile, you will have to pull a browser to use it. How to use Janitor AI To use Janitor ai you have to enter the website Janitorai.comand create a free account. You will have to confirm that you are over 18 years old, and use an email or password, or identify with your Google, X or Discord account. Once you do, you can go to the page of Profile To see your selected person or configure it by adding a description, or the colors with which your dialogue appear. You can go to the section My peoplewhere you can create different characters for yourself, and then choose which one you use for each conversation. On the main page you will have A list of characters or bots of AIto click on that with which you want to interact. Up, you can choose between seeing those that are trend, favorites, or entering the section of Tags and categories. Pressing in All Tags/Categoriesyou can choose between popular tags or look for them all, and click on one so that only the related characters are shown. And both here and on the main page you have a search engine Above all with which you can find characters by description. When you press in a character, you will see your description and your tags in a file, where you can also choose your person to interact. Click on Chat with To start a conversation with the character. In addition, to the right of the file you can see the valuations of other users for this character. And that’s it, then you will enter a conversation, where the character writes a presentation or staging. And then you will have to write To start game and interaction. When writing, you can use quotes or other formulas that you will learn to distinguish between what you say and what you think and do. From here, it’s your whole thing. In Xataka Basics | 22 useful and not so well -known free artificial intelligence tools

If you talk to your plants even if everyone thinks you are crazy, science has something to tell you: you’re not so crazy

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When in January 2012, Risto Mejide said that of “You sing like a diva, but you move like a plant“I did not know that I was completely wrong. And not only for Natalia, the contestant of ‘You do vouchers’ to which he directed those pearls, but because, under that static appearance, the plants do not stop doing things. And not by chance, no. Plants are not only able to detect threats, but activate a whole series of defensive reactions that have intrigued scientists for decades. Everything starts with a bite. Heidi Appel and Rex Cocroft met at a seminar at the University of Missouri and, quickly, saw that His interests fit. Cocroft was one of the great experts in biotremology (the branch of biology that studies the role of vibrations and sound in life) and had been analyzing how insects use the stem of plants to communicate. Do you listen? Apple was an expert in ecological chemistry and listening to those recordings (specifically how the caterpillars of the butterflies of the Col bit tiny mustard plants) had an idea: what if the plants could listen to them? And if that explained that, suddenly, plants activated a whole series of physiological reactions to “attack” the caterpillars? Answering that question was not easy. We had to measure laser vibrations and try to understand what plants could really hear. On the other hand, we had to quantify “how plants care and how.” However, it was enough to measure in real time what happened to the first bite of an caterpillar to verify that, indeed, the plants listened. And not just that. “What is surprising and great is that these plants only create defense responses to feeding vibrations and not to wind or other vibrations in the same frequency as the chewing caterpillar,” Appel explained. They discovered that, in fact, it was enough to expose plants to the sound of chewing so that glucosinolate levels (that defensive response) triggered. Does this mean that putting music to plants is a good idea? No, it doesn’t mean that. “This field is somewhat obsessed with its history of putting music to plants. That kind of stimulus is so far from the natural ecology of plants that it is very difficult to interpret their answers,” Cocroft explained. What it really means is that what we usually think about plants is often wrong. A mistake that, little by little, we are waking up. Image | Annie Spratt In Xataka | We have found a plant capable of producing 40 cannabinoids. A closer plant evolutionarily to lettuce that to hemp

We talk about the best and worst in crossover

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In the second decade of the 90s and the first of the 2000 the world in general and Spain in particular was conquered by mobile phones. Those devices They were not much less smartphones, but rather “Dumb phones” quite limited but still could have quite high prices. It was the time when mobile phones did not want to be larger, but smaller, in which the screen mattered almost nothing – because you just used it – in which the physical keyboard was absolutely fundamental and in which to send an SMS cost a small fortune. In fact, mobile phones were used for something for which they are almost or used: call. Despite their limitations, those devices –Many of them “Concha”– They caught us and marked the way to what would come later. Thanks to them they were created (and destroyed) empires – who tells Nokia and Blackberry – and we saw how experimentation in designs and benefits offered a frantic and sometimes crazy evolution. That evolution made us understand how the mobile was going to end up becoming a much more powerful device: one with which we could take photos or listen to music, for example. They were the great advance of our current smartphones, and we have done a small review of that story in the third episode of crossover, Xataka’s biweekly program and range What mixes entertainment and technology. This third program goes beyond that trip to the past with the mobiles of that first batch. Thus, Jaume Lahoz and Carlos Santa Engracia The engineerknown for its YouTube channel with almost “scientific” analysis of football matches, but there are even more surprises. For example, Jaume, Carlos and his team detail us how far we can get with the Meta Ray-Ban, review the actuality of the last days and even invite us to know the Tesla Cybercab, the autonomous taxi of this manufacturer. You can enjoy This full program on YouTubeand you can also follow the best moments of the program on Instagram (@CrosSoverofc), Tiktok (@CrosSoverofc) and Twitter (@CrosSoverofc). On YouTube | Crossover

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