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Mercedes wanted to jump into the electric car in record time and is clear that they were wrong

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Four years now meet. It was a summer of 2021 when Mercedes launched his ordinance: in 2030 they would be an exclusively electric brand. They wanted to do it by building eight gigafactories to go out to their electric cars and batteries. Today they are clear that they were wrong. “They will last more than expected”. “We have changed the course, electrified combustion engines will last more than expected.” They are the words of Ola Källenius, CEO of Mercedes, in Auto Motor Und Sport Confirming what was an A Voca Secret: Mercedes will not fulfill the deadlines planned in the electric car. The company, therefore, will continue to bet on combustion engines that are key. It is not that he was going to withdraw overnight but that self -imposed obligation of being electric in 2030 led them to significantly reduce their offer until they focus exclusively on the electric car. Two symptoms (1). Although he had been rumored for a long time and in winter Mercedes already said that “There was too much optimism in the industry”there are two great symptoms that came to tell us clear that the time of combustion engines had not died. The first was The failure of EQS as flag bearer of the electric car in the company. The great electric Berlina, “the electric class” has been a failure and confirmed that the customer of a luxury car continues to bet mostly on combustion. Time will say if it is something exclusively linked to the autonomy or there is also a certain political positioning behind. The truth is that the company took advantage of the car to give a wash in the face of the image, sell the maximum refinement with the latest technology and its most advanced software with a Hyperscreen that surprised by groundbreaking. The truth is that the Mercedes client has continued to prefer the most classic class S. Two symptoms (2). The second symptom that advanced that Mercedes had changed course was given by its AMG sports division. The wealthy customer is especially complicated to convince when it comes to electrifying the fleet. To meet the European demands, Mercedes opted in its sports division for A four hybrid cylinders and although He got 680 hpcars that have mounted it have failure in sales. The solution has gone to return to these luxury cars the V8 engines. The company confirmed that will continue working on them And although they will be electrified, the potential car customer of more than 100,000 euros and extremely sports seem to continue asking for huge engines. It is no accident that, in his day, BMW already announced that he would continue to focus efforts on developing combustion engines. Specifically in those of six and eight cylinders. If you want gasoline, you pay it. Everything indicates that, as will happen with lower ranges, we will begin to see Two product categories clearly differentiated in Europe. Pollution policies will lead us to see An extensive electrification (with plug and electrical hybrids) in the low and medium range and a fence to the Combustion engines in the most expensive or luxury offer. In the case of Mercedes, everything indicates that they will continue to develop combustion engines but fenced to their most unattainable offer or Markets where hurry With the electric car are not so many. The confirmation that, in addition to the V8 for AMG, also They will continue selling the huge V12 Limited to the Maybach versions of its class S is a good example. But it is also that Mercedes has focused on “democratizing” its electric cars. He Electric Mercedes It will not be the cheapest car but the German company does want it to become its first great super electric success. And the formula is clear: improve the autonomy. “Rational”. For Källenius, in addition, this strategy is the most “rational.” Yes, the same one that Toyota has been holding so far, to sell the most demanded technology where they ask or let it sell. That is why they continue to focus on hybrids but ensure that the electric car will be key … in Europe. And Källenius knows that multienergy strategy helps them stay afloat. Its hybrid mechanics and huge engines will continue to be key in the United States and in Europe (who can pay it), while needing competitive electric cars in China. “It is our most important and crucial market for our technical innovations,” CEO himself pointed out from Mercedes a few months ago. A product that passes not only through the engine. Here, the latest generation software is essential because without it they do not think they can compete in China. They are aware that “Chinese clients not only use the car to move from A B. For many, it is also a second living room.” And there Mercedes needs to make differences if he does not want to star in a free fall. One that has already begun. Photo | Mercedes In Xataka | The Mercedes Class wanted to overcome the discomforts of the electric car. It is incompatible with a multitude of loaders

My keys are random characters and I have a hard time remembering them. Unless you use one of these password managers

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Do you have the same password for all your accounts or do you use a different? The truth is that the second is the best we can do in the event that some website has some vulnerability, but that can leave us with a problem: remember all passwords. In fact, it has happened to me, so it can be very useful to have a good Password manager. But … What is a password manager? A password manager is an independent program that is responsible for safely storing the passwords that we choose. In this way, once we register it, it will be saved and allow us to log in to the account without writing the password again. There are free services, but also other payment that offer a greater number of functions and, of course, of better advantages. In this article we will talk about Some of the best password managers, with their prices and differences. Proton Pass If we are going to choose a password manager, Better to do it by taking a discount, right? Proton Pass not only offers different monthly plans with its peculiarities, but also right now has a discount on all its subscription plans: Pass plus monthly by 4.99 euros a month instead of 4.99 euros. Annual Proton Plus by 2.99 euros a month instead of 12.99 euros. Pass Family by 4.99 euros per month instead of 6.99 euros. * Some price may have changed from the last review All of them have some similar tools, such as cloud storageextreme end encryption, the possibility of saving passwords or email encryption, calendar, cloud storage and VPN service. Here we leave you a table with some of the differences between the subscription plans: Pass plus monthly Annual Pass Pass Pass Family Tools Unlimited alias of Hide-My-Email Integrated 2FA authenticator Safe link exchange Unlimited credit cards Dark Web monitoring Advanced Accounts Protection Your personalized domain for alias Additional mailboxes for alias Unlimited alias of Hide-My-Email Integrated 2FA authenticator Safe link exchange Unlimited credit cards Dark Web monitoring Advanced Accounts Protection Your personalized domain for alias Additional mailboxes for alias 6 Pass Plus accounts Administrator panel for your family Price 4.99 euros / month 2.99 euros / month 4.99 euros / month Obviously, Proton Family offers greater users. Yes, it is more expensive, but it can be interesting if what we are looking for is to use the service on different devices. Pass Plus monthly can be interesting to prove the annual plus tools and Pass has the best value for money by staying the monthly for half that with respect to Pass Plus monthly. PUREVPN PUREVPNas its name indicates, it is mainly a service that offers a VPN tool, although it also has many other security related, such as the password manager. Taking into account that the standard service does not offer the password manager, we would have two modalities: Pure VPN Plus for $ 2.96 per month (2.52 euros to change), with VPN service and password manager. PUREVPN MAX for $ 3.33 per month (2.83 euros to change), with VPN service, password manager, Dark Web monitoring, unlimited ESIM data and data eliminator. * Some price may have changed from the last review Bitwarden Another option that can be interesting is Bitwardena password manager who, although it is true that it has a free modality, has two subscription modalities with more tools. Of course, it is more focused on companies than individuals, although that does not mean that it cannot be useful: The biggest difference between Bitwarden Teams and Bitwarden EnterpriseIn addition to the price, Enterprise offers a family plan and recovery administrator. Bitwarden Teams for 4 dollars a month (3.40 euros to change). Bitwarden Enterprise for $ 6 per month (5.10 euros to change). * Some price may have changed from the last review Dashlane Finally, Dashlane It is another service that, despite being more expensive, also offers a good assortment of tools. Mainly it is a password manager service, but depending on the subscription modality that we choose we can have more or less functions, although in this case they are more focused on companies: Password administrator by 8 euros per month (with annual billing). It includes access protection of employees with unlimited passwords and optimization of security controls. Omnix by 11 euros per month (with annual billing). Includes password administrator, intelligent alerts and additional protection against Phishing. * Some price may have changed from the last review Some of the links of this article are affiliated and can report a benefit to Xataka. In case of non -availability, offers may vary. Image | Linus Mimietz in UnspashProton Pass, Purevpn, Bitwarden, Dashlane In Xataka | Why it is dangerous to connect to public wifis and what you should do to protect yourself In Xataka | Antivirus in Windows 11: What are, differences between free and payment and the best for your PC

The cooling bases for laptops were for an omnipresent time. Today they have disappeared without realizing

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The Digital photo framesYoplait yogurts, the Aquarius Cola. There are objects that disappear without warning, and in that list they may be entering the Refrigeration bases for laptopsthose armathes with fans that populated the desks a few years ago. And that now they seem to have vanished from stores without anyone saying goodbye to anyone. In the magic 2000, when Pentium 4 They turned any laptop into a reactor turbine, seemed almost mandatory, especially with the arrival of summer. Today they seem as anachronistic as the coves for disks. What happened? There are several theories that seem feasible together. One of them is the fifteen years of silent engineering. Manufacturers have refined the thermal design, optimized architectures and perfected the manufacturing process until heat a residual problem. Apple Silicon It marked a turning point, but even Intel and AMD chips have won in efficiency … although they continue to heat up with demanding tasks. But in everyday use they do not seem to need that external cooling. On the other hand, it is Our way of using computers. The majority of heavy software that required local resources has migrated to the cloud, especially consumer focused. We live in browsers, We consume Saaswe delegate in remote services. The laptops are no longer so much work stations to process as internet windows that do not require too much effort. Not the one before. Meanwhile, The mobile has absorbed a lot of screen timerelegating the laptop to specific tasks, but not to do so much and for so many hours as it is. The cooling bases are thus bind to the same accessory cemetery where the remains of Ninety liquid crystal screen protectorsthe organizing boxes of CDS, the silicone keyboard protectors, the box with lock and everything to save disks. Tempus fugit. Are The testimony of problems that technology has been solvingreminding us that real progress does not always arrive with fanfarrias. Sometimes we simply stop needing what it seemed essential. Even in full heat wave. In Xataka | The web has become a horrendous place for many people. So they are rebuilding their version 1.0 as a refuge Outstanding image | AmazonUnspash

You just wanted to look at the time and ended five hours of kittens videos

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The procrastination It is one of the main reasons why you fail to do everything you have set at the beginning of the day. You know that you should do a certain task, you know that if you do not have consequences, but even so, You are unable to face it. However, there is an even more silent and powerful enemy: the mobile phone. This device, which we carry in the pocket (or in hand) all day, has become A constant source of distraction that steals minutes and hours of sibyline. According to data From Exploding Topics, users spend on average about four hours and 37 minutes a day using the mobile. That implies losing a day a week looking down, or 70 days a year. What would you do with 70 more days? Take awareness of time The applications and services you use on the mobile have been specifically designed To capture your attention constantly. Notifications, messages and social networks interrupt us at any time, and they do it consciously To attract your attention. Do not hesitate, they are very well designed and usually succeed. However, that success of the one part implies the defeat of another: Your concentration. Every time you review a notification, or you “just a view of your mobile, you are not only interrupting your concentration and the workflow, but you must add an average of 23 minutes to return to the state of concentration what you had before. One way to reduce that use, at least during the periods in which you must maintain concentration, is take awareness of the time you spend Using your mobile and what applications you devour your time. Both Apple and Android mobiles have a digital well -being section in adjustments, in which the screen time and use statistics. Consult them daily, and write down the time you spend using the mobile, as well as the time of the day you use it most. That will allow you to detect your use patterns and help you reduce its use during the stripes in which You should be studying, doing sports or learning To make crochet. The limits of space and time Know How do you use the mobile It allows you to know if you are using it excessively in work with applications that have little to do with it, if you do it during your free time or even at hours when you should reduce dopamine levels for reconcile sleep. That information allows you, for example, to adopt the “monk mode“When you must maintain all your concentration in working or studying, and not leaving all responsibility in hands of your willpower. Do you remember what apps were designed to capture your attention? They also have the willpower effect. Not working. The best you can do to avoid falling into the temptation of your notifications And focusing on what you need to finish, it is to prevent your mobile from having the slightest opportunity to capture your attention. The easiest way to do so is to adopt a strategy of “Ulysses contract“, so that you I present, avoid that you I of the future falls into the temptation to look at notifications. In this sense, the options of the digital welfare section or time of use of your mobile can be very useful, since it allows you to program schedules for concentration modes or limit the use of certain applications during a specific time slot. Thus, The limits are automated To help you reduce interruptions that break your concentration. Rediscovering free time Like energy, habits are neither created nor destroyed, They only transform. The bad habits are not eliminatedthey are only replaced For good habits. The same thing happens over time. The time that little by little you are going to scratch social networks and kittens videos, you will be able to use it to do what you want: learn languages, read, do sports or share more time with your friends. Therefore, it is important to think What do you want to spend that time That progressively you will recover, and be aware that that time, that you now use in something tangible, before it was screen time. In this way, you will have a goal to achieve and your effort to recover time acquires a purpose. THE TIME BOOK In the first section we recommended to take awareness of the time of daily use of your mobile, and write it down to detect patterns. Once you start taking action in this regard, continue to take a record of your use data but, this time, add What do you use that time Diary you recover. Those notes are the proof of your little victories. If one day you manage to reduce ten minutes of use, indicate that you have used those ten minutes toRead some pages of a book, or that you have called a friend to ask him how his day. Do it, it has the same effect as cross out a task on your list. It is the finding of the work done, and of The reward for that effortcontributing to Maintain motivation to continue changing screen time for productive time for you. In Xataka | Technology has undermined one of the best tools for productivity and creativity: to leave time to get bored Image | Unspash (Robin Worrall, ROB HAMPSON)

Mediumkt is celebrating its 26th anniversary. These are five of the best offers that the store has for a limited time

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Mediamarkt is celebrating and for this he has launched a new campaign called 26th anniversary where we can find discounts on all kinds of products. There are many, so we have made a selection of Five of the best offers we have found in the store. Oppo Reno fs by 349 eurosa good mobile with battery of 5,800 mAh and 512 GB of internal storage. IMAC M4 by 1,369 eurosthe best offer that Mediamarkt has on Apple’s computer. Google Pixel 9a by 474.05 euros When registering in the Mediamarkt store. Sony HTS40R by 299 eurosa good sound bar with rear speakers and wireless subwoofer. Philips Oneblade Pro by 39 eurosa beard and body that has gained popularity for being designed to cut the hair, not the skin. Oppo Reno fs During the anniversary of Mediamarkt, we can find good prices in some mobiles, as is the case with OPPO RENE13 FS that has been launched this year. By 349 euroswe talk about a 6.67 -inch AMOLED mobile that mounts the Snapdragon 6 Gen 1 processor along with 12 GB of RAM and 512 GB of internal storage. Its 5,800 mAh battery supports 45W fast charging and has artificial intelligence functions. * Some price may have changed from the last review IMAC M4 He IMAC M4 He has not received many offers since its launch, and the ones he has received have almost always been from Mediamarkt. Now is found by 1,369 euros (the best store discount) and mounts, of course, the M4 chip Apple, has 16 GB of unified memory and 256 GB of SSD. In addition, it includes one 24 -inch retinal screen and a Magic Keyboard keyboard and a Magic Mouse mouse. * Some price may have changed from the last review Google Pixel 9a On the other hand, if what you are looking for is a good Google mobile, but with a very competitive price, much eye on Google Pixel 9awhich has come down in Mediamarkt to the 474 euros. Of course, this price only appears when previously registered in the store. He Google Pixel 9a It is a compact 6.3 -inch screen mobile that mounts the Google Tensioner G4 processor along with 8 GB of RAM and 128 GB of internal storage. You will receive software updates for many years and its main camera is 48 MP. * Some price may have changed from the last review Sony HTS40R You don’t have to spend too much money on a sound bar to have some quality, even within the Sony brand. On the 26th anniversary of Mediamarkt we have the Sony HTS40R by 299 eurosalthough Amazon has it slightly cheaper. Includes both a wireless subwoofer and a pair of rear speakers, it offers a total power of 600W to 5.1 channels, it is compatible with Dolby Digitalincludes connectivity Bluetooth, HDMI and Jack of 3.5 mm And it comes with several audio modes: cinema, music, voice and nocturnal. * Some price may have changed from the last review Philips Oneblade Pro The Philips Oneblade Pro (And his little sister Oneblade) is one of the beard and body that has been popular in recent years thanks to his claim “designed to cut the hair, not the skin”, and this achieves it thanks to his blades with a round tip. By 39 eurosWe talk about a water resistant (IPX7 certification), each blade lasts approximately four months depending on the use that we give and offers a Autonomy of up to 90 minutes With each load. * Some price may have changed from the last review Some of the links of this article are affiliated and can report a benefit to Xataka. In case of non -availability, offers may vary. Images | Buying and Mediamarkt (header), Oppo, Apple, Google, Sony, Philips In Xataka | The best mobiles (2025), we have tried them and here are their analysis In Xataka | What is the best portable computer to work in 2025. Tips and recommendations

It is not you, it’s hotter than ever. And the problem is that summers are not going to improve over time

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A good part of the planet is clear about one thing: it’s hota lot. So much that life during the day It makes complicated. Last June it became the New Julywhat leaves us a disturbing question now that we started new month: what will happen in July? Many wonder if what happens is “normal”, and the truth is that scientists have an answer: it is not only suffocating. Anticipated and prolonged. As we said, summer did not wait for July. With anticipated heat waves that have fried To Canada, the northeast of the United States, the United Kingdom, France, the Netherlands, and a good part of northern Europe, the 2025 summer season is being configured as another forceful evidence of the rapid advance of climate change. The pools in Toronto They remain open Until midnight, concerts are being canceled in Amsterdam and fans They have reappeared In French homes earlier than usual. The alarming is not just the heat intensitybut its chronology: the thermal threshold that previously marked the beginning of the warmest period of the northern hemisphere was reached around July 10. In 2024, the hottest year Never registered, it was exceeded from June 13 to September 5. This year, without being as extreme as the previous one, this weeks advanced regarding the historical average. The phenomenon reflects A clear pattern: summers are lengthening at both ends, starting before and ending later, which increases exposure to heat waves and elevates substantially The health risksagricultural and environmental. Heat out of time. I remembered The Washington Post That heat waves are no longer limited seasonal phenomena, but an increasingly continuous threat. According to data From the United States Environmental Protection Agency, its duration, frequency and intensity have increased significantly in the last seven decades, extending the “extreme heat season” of less than 50 days in the 90s to about 70 Since 2020. This phenomenon has altered the climate calendar in a drastic way: between January and mid -June of this year, 163 of 171 days registered temperatures greater than 32.2 ° C in extensive regions of the northern hemisphere, a figure unprecedented since 1980. Examples The consequences are manifested Multiple: anticipated forest fires, Early melting of glaciers in the Swiss Alps or the increase of deaths due to heat stroke, which in Europe have risen 30% In the last 20 years. The danger increases Especially in early heat waves, when the population has not yet adapted physiologically nor has preventive protocols activated, more seriously affecting older or vulnerable people. Heating accelerates. He underlined The New York Times That the evidence shows that the planet is heating, and is doing it faster than the models predicted just a few decades ago. The summer of 2025 had barely begun when the United States was already caught under that suffocating “heat dome” of The one we talk about who beat records, while Alaska registered his First official alert by high temperatures. As we said, these anomalies arrive after 2024 that was the warmer year Never registered, and reinforce what climate science has been anticipating: global warming caused by human activity not only continues its course, but also that It is accelerating. More science. A Recent study estimates that the average global temperature is increasing at the rate of 0.27 ° C per decadea significantly higher rate to the rhythm of 0.2 ° C that was observed in the 70s. But beyond the figures, the most disturbing is how these changes have begun to demonstrate directly And visible in everyday life: devastating floods, extreme droughts, increasingly voracious fires and heat waves that challenge the limits of the human body and modern infrastructure. The ends grow faster. In this way, each additional tenth not only adds heat to the planet, but also increased the violence of Meteorological phenomena extremes. According to the climatologist Daniel Swainevents such as torrential rains or forest fires do not grow in a straight line with the temperature: they do it with An exponential pattern. For each Celsius heating grade, extreme rainfall increases by 7%, but the so -called “record events” are doubling that rate. This intensification was not only predictable, but the scientists had already modeled it, although now it begins to feel tangible and disconcerting. Kate Marvel, another recognized climatologist, summarized it like this In the Times: “There is no climate out of climate change.” Phenomena like him Hurricane Helene or historical floods of Vermont They are not anomalies, but direct expressions of an altered atmosphere. Although a total understanding of the most extreme events is still lacking (in part because its rarity makes it difficult to Adjust your models urgently. Accelerated thaws. The impact of heating feels with special severity in vulnerable regions such as The Arctic and Antarctica. The thaw of his ice masses, which for decades seemed a distant phenomenon, is now contributing to a faster sea level rise than expected. A NASA analysis Posted in March revealed that the level of the oceans increased by 2024 to A higher rhythm to the estimated, due to the thermal expansion of the waters (heated in depth) and to the accelerated thaw of glaciers. The sea and the planet. In addition, the data from another study of the National Center for Earth Observation show that the marine surface temperature It is increasing above the previous forecasts, which has direct implications for The global climateprecipitation patterns and cyclones intensity. Cecilia Bitz, an expert in climatic modeling, acknowledges that simulating the complexity of the Earth is a challenge, but insists that the great physical principles of the climate system They are still valid: They are not being denied, but complying with disturbing accuracy. The energy imbalance. The physical root of global warming is in the Energy imbalance From the planet: the difference between the solar energy that the Earth receives and the one that returns to space. According to Another study Recent based on NASA satellite data, that imbalance It has doubled In the last two decades and is now … Read more

is in four autonomous communities at the same time

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The geography It is capriciousjust as history or politics is often. In the case of Valverde, a tiny district of the municipality of Alhama River Cerverathose three whims have converged to generate a situation Very unorthodox: A population in which four autonomies shake hands. His situation is so rocambolesca that a inhabitant of Valverde arrives a small walk to tour La Rioja, Aragón, Castilla y León and Navarra. All an anomaly in the broad (often capricious) Spanish administrative map. In a place in Spain … In Alhama-Linaressouth of La Rioja, there is a municipality called Alhama River Cerveraof just over 2,200 neighbors and a long Employment traditionthat hides a small secret inside. Administratively the town is Rioja, but from time to time jumps to the holders for the particular status of one of its districts, Valverde. The reason? It is literally fitted among four different communities. A town, four regions. If you open Google Maps and “Valverde” You will verify the peculiar situation of the population, at the confluence of four different regions: La Rioja, Aragón, Navarra and Castilla y León. The inhabited nucleus is split by the dividing line that separates Aragon from La Rioja, but that is not its only anomaly: the Castellanoleonese border is located a few hundred meters from where the houses are located. And Navarra is not much further. If situation comes so much about the common It stands out The City of Cervera del Río Alhama. “The neighborhood is from the center of the Villa 10 kilometers, it is located at the southeast end of the Autonomous Community of La Rioja, next to the skirts of Moncayo”, Remember the Consistory’s website. “Its location is peculiar, because it coincides with the border limits of four communities.” A curiosity, a legend. Valverde is not only striking for its mixture of borders. It is also for The story (Legend, rather) that has its peculiar position Sancho el Fuerte, Alfonso II El Casto and Alfonso VIISovereign respectively of Navarra, Aragon and Castilla, to negotiate alliances. The place chose it because that way the three could be cited without any abandoned their domains. Some versions They tell In fact, the monarchs came to celebrate a lunch on a triangular table arranged in the kingdoms. The place is known as “The Mojón de los Tres Reyes”. A theoretical division. The most striking of Valverde is that in that anomaly you are barely felt in the day -to -day life of its neighbors, except in special situations, such as During pandemia. The division of the district, in which some 200 people (Many of them on Rioja soil) The brand the street of the station. The Herald newspaper Precise Also that most people’s services are located in the area that corresponds to La Rioja, near the road (N-13) that connects Pamplona with Madrid. According to the exact place in which the neighbors are censored, yes, they have to go to Hospitals in Logroño or Zaragoza. Images | DAP and Google Maps Via | This road town is quite ugly, but it is unique in Spain: its municipal term includes four autonomous communities In Xataka | After the civil war, Franco wanted to colonize empty Spain. So 300 new villages were invented

We have a big problem with AI agents: 70% of the time are wrong

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The AI agents They fail more than a fair shotgun. That’s at least what reveals A recent study of researchers from the Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) and the University of Duke. These experts have analyzed the behavior of several of them and put them to the test to check if this is a “much noise and few nuts.” AND At the moment it is. Inspiration. Graham Neubig, professor of CMU, explained In The Register how inspiration had been A 2023 article of OpenAi. It talked about what types of work could be replaced by AI systems, but as he said “his methodology was basically asking Chatgpt if those works could be automated.” In that study they wanted to verify it by asking various AI agents to try to complete tasks that theoretically carry out professionals of those works. In Xataka Everything begins by asking a thing to an AI. When the AI ​​is asked for others, chaos begins Theagentcompany. To carry out their study, the researchers created a fictitious company they called The Agent Company and they used it so that different agricultural models tried to complete various tasks. These systems should be able to use access to several services such as Gitlab, Owncloud or Rocketchat to carry out these works, but their performance was disappointing. 70% errors. The researchers used two trial environments called Openhands Codeact and Owl-Roleplay and in them they were testing the most important AI models today. The best of all of them is Claude Sonnet 4, which managed to solve 33.1% of the proposed tasks. Behind are Claude 3.7 Sonnet (30.9%), Gemini 2.5 Pro (30.3%) and, much further, disastrous GPT-4O (8.6%), call-3.1-405b (7.4%), QWEN-2.5-72B (5.7%) or Amazon Nova Pro V1.0 (1.7%). In the best case the models can complete 30% of the requested tasks, but they fail in 70%. Or what is the same: a lot of noise and few nuts according to these benchmarks. Unable agents. During these tests the researchers observed various types of failure in these tasks processes. Thus, there were agents refusing to send a message to colleagues who were part of the task, there were also agents unable to manage popup windows during navigation sessions, and even agents who cheated or cheated. In one of the cases, they highlighted, an agent who had to consult a person in Rocketchat (an alternative Open Source a Slack) did not find it, so “he changed the name to another user to give him the user with whom he had to contact.” But they are improving. Even with those problems, the evolution is being positive in the performance of these AI agents. Neubig and his team tested a software agent that was able to solve about 24% of the tasks involved web navigation, programming and some related tasks. Six months later they tested a new version and achieved 34% of completed tasks. {“Videid”: “X8HJ0VY”, “Autoplay”: False, “Title”: “Chatgpt: What you did not know what you could do | tricks”, “Tag”: “”, “Duration”: “790”} Imperfect but useful. Not only that: these researchers pointed out that even failing so much, AI agents can remain useful. In certain contexts, such as programming, a partial code suggestion with which to solve a certain fragment of a program can end up being the basis of a solution in which the developer can then work. Care where you use them. But of course, agents make so many mistakes can be a problem in scenarios more sensitive to these problems. Thus, if we commission an agent who writes Correos and sends them to incorrect people, the result could be a disaster. There are solutions in sight, such as the growing adoption of Model Context protocol (MCP) that facilitates the interaction between services and AI models so that communication is much more precise and these errors can be mitigated during the autonomous execution of tasks. A benchmark that makes the AI ​​models look bad. For this expert one of the great disappointments is that companies that develop AI models do not seem interested in using it as a metric to improve their developments. Neubig suspected that “perhaps it is too difficult and makes them look bad.” It is something similar to what happens With the benchmark arc -ag2: It is such a difficult test for the IAS that today The best of all models of which they try to overcome it is o3, which achieves – a 3% of completed tasks. In Salesforce they coincide. That previous study is complemented With another realized by a group of Salesforce researchers. They created their own benchmark specifically aimed at verifying how various AI models would be checked when controlling typical tasks in a CRM like those developed by the firm. His project, called Crmarena-Pro, tests those AI agents in areas such as the Sales or Support Department. In Xataka If the question is whether IA is already as good as human intelligence, the answer is: solves this puzzle To replace workers, nothing. In their conclusions, these researchers reveal how the AI ​​models “achieve globally modest success rates, typically around 58% in scenarios with a single shift (execution), but with the yield significantly degrading approximately 35% in multiturn scenarios.” In fact, they explained, “agents are not generally prepared or have the essential qualifications for complex tasks.” The risk of some experts, with A great impact of AI on various jobsit seems precipitated. A complicated future. To these discreet results, the prediction of the Gartner consultant is joined. According to your studiesmore than 40% of the development agents projects will end up being canceled at the end of 2027. The main person responsible for the report, Anushree Verma, indicated that “at present, most of the agricultural projects are experiments or tests of concept in the initial phase, mainly driven by advertising already often badly applied.” The message is clear: there are too many expectations in relation to AI agents, but the current state of technology shows that today its application is problematic and limited. Image … Read more

After years of debacle, South Korea has managed to rebound his birth. Now it’s time to find out how the hell has done it

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Demographic statistics is nothing more than that: Demographic Statistics. Pure and hard mathematics, with objective and reading data. For years, however, their chronicles in South Korea transmit a dire air, as of announced death. And it’s normal. The country has seen how its birth rate descended to such low dimensions that in 2024 the country had to declare itself in “demographic emergency” and assume officially that it is a “society Super aging“ Now that seems to be changing little by little, which raises two questions: Has Korea achieved out of the demographic hole in which it has been immersed for years? And if so, how? They are key issues for Seoul, but also for other neighboring countries with birth problems, such as China either Japan. What happened? That against all forecast, South Korea Start to get used to to their demographic statistics arrive accompanied by positive signs. That does not mean that they are good at all, the country has managed to stop its demographic bleeding or its fertility rate stands above “Replacement level”; But they are favorable news after all. And that did not happen for a long time. A figure: 20,717. The latest data published by Statistics Korea show that in April they were born in the country 20,717 babies8.7% more than 19,059 counted during the same month of 2024. The data is interesting because it leaves several positive readings. The first is that three years ago the number of monthly lights remained below the 20,000 barrier. The second is that this 8.7% growth shows the highest year -on -year increase in the last three and a half decades. You have to go back to 1991 to find another similar percentage. More babies, more weddings. There are not only more babies. There are also more couples giving the ‘yes I want’. The data Statistics Korea show that in April 18,921 marriages in the country were formalized, which leaves an interannual increase of 4.9%. The data invites optimism for another reason: it is the thirteenth consecutive month in which this indicator is green. It may seem a minor issue, but in the South Korean society couple and birth They go hand in. There are studies that calculate that less than 5% From babies they are born out of marriage. Coincidence or trend? That is the question that surveys the birth data of Korea. Especially since the last years have been marked by the shadow of the pandemic, which modes to take many couples to postpone their wedding plans or even the decision to become parents. In his favor the country has to They are not the first in positive. Seoul already said goodbye to 2024 with a positive birth rate (the number of births 3.6% increased), something that had not happened for a decade. Looking for the causes. At this point, the question is obvious: beyond the influence of the pandemic, is there any factor that explains the rebound in birth in the country? The question is interesting for South Korea, but also for other nations that have been dealing with demographic challenges, such as Japan, China, Russia or many European nations, including Spainwhich in recent years has gained population thanks basically to foreigners. “The increase in births seems to be influenced by the increase in marriages since last year, the growth of the population of women between 30 and 39 years and various birth promotion policies by central and local governments,” Clarify Statistics Korea to the Yonhap News agency. In summary, after the birth rebound in Korea there would be three major factors: more weddings, the effect of the ‘Probebé’ policies and that in the country there are more women in the first section of the thirties. A concept: echo boombe. At least part of the demographic change would therefore be explained thanks to demography itself. And the key is in a certain group of the cohort of the echo boomers. The Guardian remember That the population born between 1991 and 1995 begins to reach the “ideal” age to marry and have children and that group has grown sensitively. If in 2020 there were about 1.51 million women between 30 and 34 years old, now there are already 1.65 million. To its possible effect, the wide range of policies that for years have deployed the South Korean authorities (both regional and state) to encourage the formation of couples and birth rate are added. And that includes from the delivery of generous ‘Baby checks’ to the application of Fiscal incentives, parental permitsinitiatives for Improve food of mothers or even appointment programs (with prize included) to form new couples. Well but not perfect. The latest data from Statistics Korea are good, but they are far from being perfect and of course they do not allow South Korea to launch the bells on the flight. On the contrary. Although birth is emerging, the country’s fertility rate remains at 0.79far from the replacement level that the country needs to keep its population stable without depending on immigration. In addition, although the number of births with respect to 2024 has increased, they remain clearly insufficient to stop the fall of the national census. The reason? Babies are born, but in the increasingly aging Korean society there are also more deaths. The deaths grew 0.8% year -on -year in April until adding 28,785. Images | Nathan Q (UNSPLASH) and Tommao Wang (UNSPLASH) In Xataka | Throughout Europe, birth rate collapses as soon as women begin to earn more money. Except in Sweden

For the first time we have pointed to heaven with a 3,200 megapixel camera. In just 10 hours he has done several years

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The world’s largest digital camera is already operational. And what he has seen in just a few hours of trial is simply overwhelming. The Vera Rubin Observatory. Located in the privileged Watchtower of Cerro Pachón, Chile, the Vera Observatory C. Rubin points to the sky with a digital camera of the size of a small car. Its 3,200 megapixel sensor is ever built. He has been developing more than two decades, but the wait has been worth it. What is capable of capturing They are not simple “beautiful photos” of the universe. In just 10 hours of operations, the preliminary results already exceed years of work from other observatories. What he has seen in 10 hours. In this very brief period of time. The Rubin Observatory has been able to capture 10 million galaxies. It is only 0.05% of the 20,000 million galaxies that their operators expect to catalog during their main mission. But also has discovered 2,104 asteroids Never seen before. This figure is surprising if we compare it with the approximately 20,000 asteroids that discover all other observatories in the world throughout a whole year. Rubin has done 10% of that work in less than half a day. Among them, he has found seven asteroids near Earth, but all out of our trajectory. Trifida nebulous and lagoon seen by the LSST camera of the Vera Rubin Observatory The biggest camera in the world. Financed by the National Foundation of Sciences (NSF) and the United States Department of Energy (DOE), the Rubin Observatory promises “to capture more information about our universe than all optical telescopes of all history together”, in the words of Brian Stone, director of the NSF. It is a matter of brute force. Mounted on a telescope of 8.4 meters in diameter is the space-time research chamber as a legacy for posterity (LSST), a technological feat of 2,800 kg. Each image that captures an area of ​​the sky equivalent to 45 full moons. And who was Vera Rubin. The Observatory owes his name to the American astronomer which contributed the most conclusive evidence of the existence of dark matter, the invisible substance that seems to constitute 85% of the matter of the cosmos. The dynamic and ultra -precise map that will create the Rubin Observatory for the next ten years will play a key role to understand its nature. The Observatory will generate approximately 20 data terabytes every night. Throughout its ten years of useful life, the final data set will reach the figure of 500 petabytes. Only in its first year will collect more data than all previous optical observatories together. In Xataka | Caltech has published the “stronger” tests that there is an unknown planet in the solar system

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