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To locate the pilot lost in Iran, the US used two tools. One was given by Boeing, the other is science fiction

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The call quantum magnetometry has promised to measure magnetic fields so weak that they border on detectability, using microscopic defects in synthetic diamonds capable of registering imperceptible variations. In the laboratory, these techniques already allow biological signals to be observed at surprising scales, but always in environments controlled and at very short distances. Outside of these ideal conditions, between noise, interference and distance, the great unknown remains the same: how far that sensitivity really goes. The United States claims to have the answer, and it is very difficult to believe. Two tools to find a missing person. Washington has counted that the operation to rescue to the airman shot down in Iran was based on a very specific combination of technologies that, together, made the difference between finding a man or losing him in an immense terrain. On the one hand, the pilot had a standard and well-known system available as Boeing’s CSELa communications device that allows send encrypted signals via satellite and guide rescue teams with relative precision. This type of tool, widely distributed in the armed forces, was key to confirming that he was still alive and limiting his initial position in an extremely hostile environment. The other tool that borders on the implausible. The second element of the rescue is the one that has generated the most interest (and doubts), since different information supported by a exclusive to the New York Post point to the use of a system called “Ghost Murmur” capable of detecting the human heartbeat at long distance using quantum magnetometry combined with artificial intelligence. On paper, the idea is extraordinary in a movie, but apparently also in the real world: identify the electromagnetic signature of a living body in the middle of the desert, isolate it from noise and convert it into an operational coordinate. It happens that the unknowns also begin here, because these types of signals are extremely weak and, until now, they could only be measured at a very short distance in controlled environments, which raises serious doubts about its real range in combat conditions. Between the plausible and the inflated. The context of the rescue itself suggests that, rather than replacing the classic system, this technology would have acted as a complement under very specific conditions: an environment with low electromagnetic interference, few human signatures or signals, and a target forced to briefly expose itself to activate its beacon. That is, not so much an omniscient tool as a very limited capacityuseful in ideal scenarios but difficult to extrapolate to more complex situations. The narrative of “finding someone by their heartbeat from miles away” fits well as a concept or in a Nolan film, but until now it clashed with known physical limitations. The “Venezuelan” precedent. Many skeptical analysts have gone for the jugular of these claims, speaking reverse engineering of another futuristic weapon to achieve the “Ghost Murmur”. Because skepticism does not arise in a vacuum, but in a recent context where technologies wrapped in an almost fantastic halo have already been presented, such as the supposed “discombobulator” mentioned by Trump in the operation against Nicolás Maduro. In that case, experts pointed out that it was probably a mix of capabilities real (electronic warfare, acoustic weapons or directed energy systems) presented as a single almost magical device. The pattern is recognizable: existing technologies reinterpreted or exaggerated in the public narrative. The war is also fought in the technological story. If you also want, as a whole, the rescue reveals something deeper than a simple military operation: the growing importance of technological narrative in modern conflicts. The United States used a tangible tooleffective and proven to locate the pilot, no more no less than a GPSbut he also hinted at another capacity that, real or not in the terms described, projects a image of superiority almost total. And possibly there, between what is technically possible and what is communicated, there is a space where perception matters as much as reality, and where sometimes the border between advanced technology and science fiction becomes deliberately blurred. The rescue movie, of course, has already been practically written. Image | US Air Force In Xataka | The rescue of a fallen US pilot in Iran seems like a science fiction story. And there are elements to think that it is In Xataka | Iran has found a hole in Israel’s shield: turning a missile into an explosive “storm” in full descent

the only tools this expat needs to hunt down Iran’s ghost tankers

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From the 47th floor of his Singapore apartment building, Remy Osman, a British expat who works in the beverage industry, has a front-row seat to one of the world’s biggest geopolitical clashes. Armed with binoculars, a wide-angle camera and live tracking applications, Osman watches as a 333-meter-long supertanker moves at a snail’s pace along one of the busiest shipping routes on the planet. The scene contains a brutal irony: as detailed Financial Timesthat ship’s cargo has almost doubled in value since it set sail just two weeks ago, coinciding with Brent crude oil reached 120 dollars per barrel in the wake of the war between the United States, Israel and Iran. From his balcony, Osman hunts the ships of the so-called “shadow fleet”, sanctioned oil tankers that operate outside the law, but in broad daylight. The ship that caught Osman’s attention is the Hugean 18-year-old oil tanker. According to the sanctions list records of the US Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC)it is an Iranian-flagged ship operated by the National Iranian Tanker Company (NITC) and heavily monitored since 2018. Although the blockade of the Strait of Hormuz began at the end of February with attacks by the United States and Israel, the Huge It has been one of the few large crude oil cargo ships (VLCC) that managed to get out of that mousetrap. From his privileged vantage point, Osman has identified an unmistakable pattern: the Iranian oil tankers sail towards the east sunken in the water, revealing that they are loaded to the brim, and a week later they return in the opposite direction floating much higher, with their load considerably lighter. The most surprising thing is the nerve with which they operate in the midst of the current crisis. Ships that were previously hidden now display their names and flags as if to say: “We have as much right to navigate these waters as anyone else,” Osman himself said. to the Finance Times. This impunity has reached the point that almost two-thirds of the NITC fleet have started transmitting data accurate in their Automatic Identification Systems (AIS) after seven years of manipulation and concealment. Tehran’s lifeline The impact of this ghost fleet parading in front of Osman’s window is titanic. As the world suffers “the largest supply disruption in history” due to the closure of Hormuz, Iran continues to export its crude oilsurpassing the barrier of 2 million barrels per day. The millions of barrels that Osman sees disappearing on the horizon have an overwhelmingly single destination: China. The Asian giant absorbs around 90% of Iran’s oil exports. The data tracked corroborate this massive escapeplacing the “Iran-China” route in first place in dark operations, moving more than 1.6 million barrels per day. While Iran profits, the rest of the planet trembles. With some 20 million barrels a day taken off the formal board due to the physical blockade of Hormuz, the scenario of a barrel at $200 is already a real possibility. The global threat is proportional to the size of this illicit network: according to Fortunethe dark fleet is estimated at about 1,100 vessels, representing between 17% and 18% of all liquid cargo tankers in the world. The machinery to outwit the Western powers is a marvel of evasive engineering that occurs a few kilometers from Osman’s house. As explained Financial Timestankers do not sail directly from Iran to Chinese ports, but instead perform ship-to-ship (Ship-to-Ship) transfers on the high seas. The main scenario for this transfer is the Eastern Outer Port Limits, in Malaysian waters, an area with little supervision. On a single day last January, satellite images confirmed the presence of about 60 of these ships anchored there, operating with total impunity. To achieve this level of invisibility, they exploit legal loopholes in the sea. As detailed Fortune, The international maritime system is based on voluntary compliance: ships simply turn off their radio transponders, spoof their locations, or change their identities by scratching their registration numbers. In addition, they rely on “flags of convenience.” According to the statistics of Tanker TrackersIn addition to Iran and Russia, dark ships often fly flags of countries such as Panama, Cameroon or Sierra Leone. The final link in this chain is found in Asia. The report of Kharon reveals that the final buyers They are not the large state oil companies, but the so-called refineries teapot. These small, independent refiners absorb 90% of Iranian exports and give Beijing “plausible deniability” in the international community, even though these private companies are deeply connected to the Chinese state through joint ventures and front-line networks in Hong Kong. Attempts to stop this illicit transfer have been few and often frustrating. Although Malaysian authorities recently seized crude oil worth almost $130 million from two suspicious tankers, the outcome was laughable: after paying bail of just $75,000, the ships were released. The next day, Osman looked out on his balcony again and there was one of them, the Celebratebrowsing again fully loaded. The paradox in the shadows Still, the war has brought some complications. According to Lloyd’s Listthe escalation of war forced at least six ghost tankers that were sailing empty towards the Persian Gulf to turn around (the so-called U-turns) and abort its operations. But the network is resilient: as experts point out, the shadow fleet is designed precisely to operate under disruption. The great irony is that, while those sanctioned find cracks to navigate, the legal actors are desperate. The blockade has forced Saudi Arabia to use its oil pipeline through the desert against the clock to divert millions of barrels to Yanbuin the Red Sea, where an emergency armada of supertankers is queuing up in an agonizing attempt to evacuate legal crude oil and prevent economic collapse. How to conclude Fortune, The dark fleet did not arise because the maritime system is broken, but because it was always voluntary. Today, sanctions have pushed countries like Iran to build a highly effective parallel system. While the formal world looks for alternative … Read more

Tencent has a significant stake in US military training tools. Trump is going to stand up to it

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The Trump administration is debating if it forces the Chinese giant Tencent to get rid of its stakes in the largest Western video game companies. At stake are Riot Games, Epic Games and Supercell (more than a billion players) and the Unreal Engine, used in military simulations. The ghost of TikTok returns, but this time the affected market is different. Why Tencent. Tencent is not only the largest video game company in the world. It is also the largest silent shareholder in the Western industry: it owns 100% of Riot Games, 28% of Epic Games and majority control of Supercell, the Finnish company behind ‘Clash of Clans’. To this we must add participations in Larian, Remedy, Ubisoft and Discord, among dozens of other studios. For years, that capital has flowed to the West: the studios needed investment, Tencent had liquidity, and no one was looking for trouble. The White House sniffs. Washington, however, he has had doubts for years. The Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) began to review these investments during Trump’s first termand the case became one of the longest in the history of the organization, going through two administrations without reaching a clear resolution. What worries the White House is that video game platforms collect financial information, personal data and chat logs from hundreds of millions of users, many of them Americans. These databases are candy for any intelligence agency. The Epic case. The Unreal Engine adds an extra issue in which the White House has a special interest. The engine not only gives life to video games like ‘Fortnite’; It is also used by defense contractors and the US military itself for military simulation and training. In fact, the country’s Armed Forces have worked directly with Epic for years on that development. That Tencent is a shareholder in the company that builds this technology is what turns this issue into a national security problem. So much so that in January 2025, the Pentagon formally classified Tencent as a company linked to the Chinese military. Tencent rejected that classification, but the Pentagon did not withdraw it. There are problems. During the Biden administration, the issue was entrenched by an internal disagreement that no one knew how to resolve: Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco defended forced disinvestment, but the Treasury Department preferred to keep investments under data segregation protocols. Without consensus, the case was frozen. The cabinet meeting scheduled for March 4 was postponed due to scheduling conflicts. That same day, Tencent shares fell 1.72%. Parallels with TikTok. There are similaritiesbut also differences. With ByteDance, the US forced the creation of a new entity with 80% in the hands of US investors, as a condition of operating there. But the problem with Tencent is that it does not operate on American soil, but rather is a shareholder in companies already established there. Getting rid of these stakes is not the same as closing an app, it is more a restructuring of private capital. The consequences in the case of Tencent would go beyond Riot and Epic: the Chinese company has been the main injector of capital into studios for a decade, and a forced disinvestment would change the financing conditions of the entire sector, favoring large publishers. When will there be a solution? The decision has an undeclared but known deadline: Trump travels to China in April to meet with Xi Jinping. Forcing Tencent to sell would send a message of maximum pressure before sitting down to negotiate. In any case, neither the US Treasury, nor Tencent, nor Epic nor Riot have made public statements. Silence, in this type of situation, is louder than if they were discussing it loudly. In Xataka – China has made a drastic decision: prioritize ‘its’ technology, even if it is worse

reviewing the best AI tools and giveaway for five MediaMarkt gift cards

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In just a couple of days, on November 20 specifically, the gala of the Xataka NordVPN Awards 2025an event in which we will discover the best technological products of the year. It will be a day full of technology, humor and many, many raffles, so, with the aim of making the wait more enjoyable, during these days we are going to review the finalists from some of the juiciest categories. One of the new features this year is the “Best generative artificial intelligence tool” category, a category whose objective is to reward AI services and platforms that, in one way or another, They have become part of our daily lives. We will do it with the help of our regular presenters, namely Ana Boria (@ana_borbuj) and server, Jose García (@josedextro), and a guest of honor: Javier Lacort (@jlacort). Furthermore, and as it could not be otherwise, during the program we will raffle five 50 euro gift cards from MediaMarkt. Not so bad, especially with Black Friday just around the corner. A review of the best generative AI tools of 2025 Generative AI has entered our lives like an elephant in a glass shop. It is no longer a thing for geeks and techies, but tools like ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini or Perplexity have managed to reach less advanced users. With this category we seek to reward these tools. Not to the models, not to the specific functions within a suite, but to the platform as a whole. So that we understand each other, the objective is not to reward GPT-5.1 or Gemini 2.5 Pro. Nor is Nano Banana or the generative edition of Galaxy AI. This category rewards the tool, that is, ChatGPT, Google Gemini or Galaxy AI. It should be noted that the finalists that we will meet today have been chosen by the xatakeros with their votes. How to get five 50 euro MediaMarkt gift cards During today’s program (and also in future ones), in addition to discovering the category in question, we will hold a very special raffle: five 50 euro gift cards from MediaMarkt. With Black Friday just around the corner, not so bad. Participating is very simple. During the broadcast we will ask a question and the first ten people who answer correctly in the Twitch chat will get a number from one to ten. Those ten participants will advance to the second round, in which our presenters will randomly draw five numbers from a bag. People with those numbers will win the prize. There will be five winners and five substitutes. If any of the winners do not meet the requirements, the prize will go to the first alternate, and so on. The winners will be announced live and must contact Xataka by whispering in the Twitch chat. To participate you must be over 18 years old and resident in Spain. You can consult the complete legal bases at this link. This content is a collaboration and sponsorship between Xataka and the brand, but there is no agreement on the script or the selection of the topics. The editorial content is created entirely by Xataka.

Tricks, tips and tools to know if offers are really offers

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We are already in the week of Black Friday, today and until the sales end next week we are going to have a barrage of promotions and offers. Therefore, we are going to try to give you tips to make the most of Black Fridayto be able to identify the offers that are really worth it and try to avoid falling into the typical traps that are common in these events. Because stores use a lot of trickery to pretend that their sales are better than they really are. Sometimes they tell you that they have reduced a product by 150 euros, for example, but then it turns out that it is only 50 if you take into account the price it was at until now. In addition, there are also signs with misleading percentages, many things. Join our Telegram But before starting with our advice, we remind you that we have a whole team that is searching the internet all year round in search of the best offers. They are the companions of Xataka Selection that these days they will give everything so that you don’t get lost the best offers for Friday and the weekendsince they will cover all the offers that happen from Black Friday to CyberMonday. And if you’re too lazy to visit their website, you can enter the official channel of Xataka Selección on Telegram, on t.me/xatakaseleccion. When you enter the link, Telegram will open on your mobile or computer, and you will have the button Jointo enter the channel and see the publications of the best offers. The Xataka Selección channel works every day of the year, so you can stay to always see the offers that come out. But during Black Friday, we are also going to offer you special content such as compilations with thematic offerswhich can help you even more than individual offers. The idea is that you don’t need anything else so as not to miss out on the best offers. Always compare offers Let’s get into the matter. The first thing is always compare the price of products that you see on offer with what they have in other establishments. This will help you give greater context to this offer, no longer based on the supposed previous price of where the product is discounted, but by seeing what others are doing. Because one store may tell you that this product at 100 euros is a stratospheric offer, but other stores have it at 110. In addition to giving you this context, you will also see that many stores match the offers of its competitors in periods such as Black Friday. This means that if you find the same offer in several places, you will always be able to choose the store whose conditions convince you the most or that conveys greater reliability. Be careful with price increases and decreases As we have told you, some establishments can be rogue, and many will use tactics to mislead customers or make it seem that the offer is better than it really is. A common tactic is raise the price of a product a few days before before the sales begin, so that they can later indicate that the discount is much greater than it really is. Another common practice is to put as the previous price one that did not existsuch as the reference one. Imagine a product that when it came out did so at a recommended price of 600 euros, but that is always sold at 450. So, if they lower it to 400 they can say that the reduction is 200 euros instead of the 50 that they have actually lowered it. This is done a lot. You should also know that prices vary greatly over timeand that a supposedly very good offer may be worse than another that the same product had last, and the price may even be higher than that of other establishments. That is why the context of the offer is important to make the decision, and as we told you before, also compare the price with that of other sites. Don’t be carried away by temptation Always be careful with impulse purchases, because many establishments will use language in their sales designed to increase temptation. Therefore, it is important to have a cool head and have a list of priority purchasesof types of products you really want or specific models. For each product you can set a target price so that, if you see that the sale is approaching, then you can go for it. This can help you avoid jumping in if the discount is small and remains at prices that you can bet on any other day. With a list of these you will also save yourself work on Black Friday, because you can go directly to look for these products and see if any of them have been lowered. You can also add others that are less essential but that also interest you, just to have a little order. It doesn’t hurt either set a budget and force yourself to stick to it. To do this, take into account the products you do want to buy and the possible ones. The main thing is to set a fixed ceiling, but then you can make levels depending on possible priority purchases, or even establish the fixed budget for non-priority purchases. It’s all about organizing. Review return policies Both on the Black Friday weekend and at the end of any purchase you are going to make, it is important review the store’s return policyboth physically and online. This way you cover your back, for example, if today you buy something impulsively but tomorrow another establishment discounts it even more. You can return the first one. There are some stores that will charge you for the return, you will have to pay for the return shipping, and other stores will take care of all the costs. Others may even have problems with … Read more

They seemed like useful tools for WhatsApp Web, but they were part of a large spam campaign

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When it comes to using third-party applications and software that interact with WhatsApp, you have to be especially careful, since you never know what may lie in store for you. In this sense, a massive spam campaign has used 131 fraudulent extensions of Chrome to automate mass sending on WhatsApp Web, affecting more than 20,000 users. Researchers at cybersecurity firm Socket have reported of the operation, which has remained active for at least nine months. what has happened. According to the investigationthe extensions were presented as CRM or contact management tools for WhatsApp, promising to increase sales and improve productivity. Names like YouSeller, Botflow or ZapVende hid their true function: injecting code directly into WhatsApp Web to send massive messages without the user’s permission, bypassing the platform’s anti-spam systems. The spam business model. According to Socket, all extensions They shared the same code base and they came from a single Brazilian company, DBX Tecnologia, which sold a white label reseller program. Researchers say that affiliates paid about 2,000 euros in advance to rename the extension with their own logo and name, promising recurring income of between 5,000 and 15,000 euros. “The goal is to keep massive campaigns running while evading anti-spam systems,” explains security researcher Kirill Boychenko. How the fraud worked. The extensions used sophisticated techniques to manipulate WhatsApp Web. They ran alongside legitimate WhatsApp scripts, using internal functions to automate message sending. Users could configure send intervals, pauses, and batch sizes specifically designed to circumvent detection algorithms. According to the researcher, DBX Tecnologia even published tutorials on YouTube explaining how to adjust these parameters to prevent WhatsApp from blocking accounts. Why is it dangerous. Although these extensions are not considered malware classic, they also represent a significant risk. When an extension injects code into web applications like WhatsApp, it can read your messages, monitor your actions, and send automated content using your account. The extensions had full access to the page WhatsApp Webpotentially allowing them to access private conversations and personal data. What to do now. According to firm, Google has already removed the extensions from its store, although they were available for more than nine months, accumulating tens of thousands of downloads. If you have installed any extension related to WhatsApp or message automation and it appears in the list of extensions provided by the research, you must delete it immediately. To do this, access ‘chrome://extensions‘ in your browser, review the entire list and uninstall any suspicious or unrecognized tools. Above all, pay attention to extensions that request permissions to access all websites or modify page data. Just because it’s in the store doesn’t mean it’s safe.. Socket recommends Regularly review installed extensions, reject those that ask for excessive permissions, and be wary of tools that promise to “boost” popular services. The presence of an extension in the Chrome Web Store does not guarantee security, as well as in the rest of the extension and application stores. Cover image | AI-generated with Gemini In Xataka | It’s a matter of time before WhatsApp ends up filling your phone’s memory, unless you do these three things

tricks, tips and tools to know if offers are really offers

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In a few days the new begins Prime offers party, The second prime day from Amazon In this 2025. this expected exclusive offers period for clients of Amazon Prime Start on October 7bringing us two days of good offers and promotions. This is a period of offers in which you can find even cheaper things than in the Black Friday, although that does not prevent you to meet many prices traps so that it seems that the reduction is greater than it is. Therefore, if you are thinking of Buy on Amazon During this period of offers, we will give you several Tips for squeezing Prime Daywhich this time has changed its name to Prime offers party. We will also give you several tools with which you can find the best bargains. Requirements for the Prime Offers Party The Amazon Prime Day, which this time is called Prime Offers, has an important difference with Black Friday: Offers are not for all users. All offers of this day are exclusive to subscribers. This means that the requirement to access offers and take advantage of them is have a subscription to Amazon Prime. Come on, you have to be a Amazon payment user, and only then you will see the promotions. And if you do not have Amazon Prime subscription, the first thing will be to subscribe entering the website of Amazon.es/amazonPrime. There are usually free trial periods For new users, so if you just want to take advantage of these offers you won’t even have to pay. Of course, then you have to remember to cancel the subscription so that they do not start charging you. In the end, what matters is that have Amazon prime active during these two days In order to access the offers, whether you are paid user or have a test period. And in addition to these offers, you can also benefit from the rest of Amazon Prime Advantagessuch as free shipping costs in 24 hours, or the streaming service of series and films Amazon Video. Differences between offers, flash and prime offers In these periods of sales, you will meet various types of offers different. You will have those that are normal like those of any day of the year, but they will be accompanied by Flash offers and prime offerswhich are exclusive to this sales period. The difference between these two types of offers is in its duration. Flash offers only last a few hoursand they usually release time by time, or for specific periods of time. With this, Amazon tries to always be pending users and entering the web to see the new promotions. In addition, products usually have these offers in limited units, which feeds compulsive purchases for fear of losing the reduction. While, Prime offers last a natural dayas long as the stock does not end first. These are usually the most important offers of Prime Day, the big hook with the best bargains to get our attention. They are usually very popular products with very important sales. Our Telegram for all offers If what you want is simply Know the best offers of this period of sales or any other day, it is important that you remember that the team of Xataka Selection He is always attentive to them. And if you give you some laziness walking on your website, you can turn to your official channel of Telegramwhere the best offers will be published. You can access entering the web T.me/xatakaseccionwhich will open telegram on your mobile or computer taking you to the channel. In it, click on Joinand from that you do it you can consult whenever you want this channel where we will publish the best offers. The Xataka selection channel works every day of the year, so you can stay to always see the offers that are coming out. But during the prime day, we will also offer you special content as compilations with thematic offersthat can help you even more than individual offers. The idea is that you don’t need anything else to not miss the best offers. Beware of price ups and drops We are now with the most complicated part of these offers, because many are designed to mislead and deceive you. A common tactic is Upload the price of a product a few hours or days before lowering them. In this way, they can put that the reduction is of a higher percentage to the previous price than it really is, because they have taken into account the previous inflation. It may also be that The percentage of the reduction refers to the recommended price of the product, which is normally higher than the real price to which it has been. If you buy headphones that are usually for 500 euros for 380 euros, the reduction is good, but Amazon may tell you that the reduction is of a final price of 599, thus inflating the percentage of what you save. Another thing to keep in mind is that prices vary greatly over timeand that a very good offer can be worse than another of the past, and the price can be even higher than that of ortho establishments. Therefore, Always compare prices with those of other establishments to have a better context of what the reduction is like. How to find the best Amazon offers To be able to navigate all this type of tricks in the offers, There are online tools to check prices of the products that are sold on Amazon. With them you can see the price history and check the ups and downs, and thus know if the current offer is really so spectacular or even if there has been some similar before. These tools are going to give you enough context to be able to distinguish between a good offer and a real bargain beyond the reduction percentages indicated by the store. These are the best tools To do so: Keepa Keepa It is possibly … Read more

The best maps and tools not to miss the arrival of the Perseidas

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The Arrival of Perseidasthe rain of more iconic stars of the summer. This year The bad news It has to do with light pollution, since the proximity of the last full moon (last 8) and the peak of The Perseids (Today, day 12), it will make it difficult to find these flashes in heaven. Escape light. To avoid natural light pollution we will have to wait, but avoiding artificial pollution is also in our hand. Only we have to know how and, above all, where. Orient in the field. But navigating such a broad territory can be complicated. According to data From the National Institute of Statistics of 2022, of the 8,131 municipalities in Spain, 4,986 have less than 1,000 inhabitants. In them there are about 3% of the population. We have various resources at our disposal to choose the ideal place to see the Perseidas, one close to our city or that is close to our summer destination. We may have an already planned trip and want to make a brief getaway from a provincial capital to a town of clear skies and free of light pollution. Maps At our disposal there are several tools that can help us guide us and look for destinations of clear skies. For example, The mapslike him developed a few years ago by the Complutense University of Madrid and the CBAS (International Research Center of Big Data For Sustainable Development Goals); or what puts at our disposal The application LIGHT POLLUTION MAP – Dark Sky. There is another map that we should not forget: the time map. If we want to look for the best place to see the stars, fleet or not, we will need a clear sky. The forecasts From the State Meteorology Agency (Aemet) they can be of great help in this. Astrotourism In a time when Astrotourism has become a new (and thriving) economic sector for the “emptied Spain”, we also have at our disposal the resources that this sector gives us to guide and choose our destination. Today we can resort to specialized tourist certificates in this subsector that unites interest in space with tourism, especially rural tourism. One of the organizations dedicated to creating certificates of this type is the Starlight Foundation. This foundation has its origin in the I Starlight International Conference, a meeting promoted by the Institute of Astrophysics of the Canary Islands (IAC) dedicated to “study -from different perspectives -, the need to protect the night sky on our planet and find paths for its enjoyment for society”, Explain the Foundation itself. The Starlight Foundation would emerge in 2009, two years later, with objectives such as protecting the night sky, making cultural dissemination of astronomy, promoting this form of tourism, and promoting intelligent lighting and energy saving, details the foundation itself. Some examples. Through the website of the Foundation we can find numerous examples of environments with some of the certification modalities offered by this organization. An example of this type of certification is that of People or city citywith which they count Three populations in Spain: Hellín, Navarra; Fuente-Tójar, Córdoba and Navas del Marqués, in Ávila. Another important certification is that of Starlight tourist destinations“Visitable places, which enjoy very good qualities for the contemplation of starry skies” and protected from light pollution. This certification has assigned to very diverse placeslike Chantadam Galicia; the Monteibérico Region-Almansa Corridor, Castilla-La Mancha; the Costa da Morte, Galicia; or the Serranía de Cuenca, in Castilla-La Mancha. The list continues, but the modalities do not end there: the Foundation also has a list of “Starlight reserves“, Star Parks,”Starlight places”, Houses and rural hotels, Starlight pathsand even Starlignt camps. A booming business. The appearance of this type of responds to The growing importance of a booming economic sector. This is the intersection between astronomy and tourism, Astrotourism, a business in vogue but not within the reach of all corners of Spain: the heavens free of light pollution are an essential quality. Fortunately, that is something that is not missing, neither in peninsular Spain or in places like Canary Islands and Balearic Islands. The rural areas of the Plateau and the various Motañosa mountain ranges that run through the country offer a unique opportunity, for tourists and also for those who live in some of the most forgotten regions of the country. In Xataka | We are accustomed to seeing the Perseids looking up. So they look from space, looking down Image | Mr. Tickle / Ralan-Map EU, Alejandro Sánchez de Miguel

How to move from image to video using artificial intelligence: 14 essential free tools

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Let’s tell you How to create a video from a photoso that the image you choose is the reference and the starting point of the video. We are going to do it with a series of free applications of artificial intelligence That we are going to recommend, so you can try until we find the one that best suits you. A common denominator in this type of services that we will tell you on the list is that they are really paying, although they offer free versions so you can try them. These free versions usually have several limitations, from the number of videos that you can create to aspects such as resolutions or water marks. We will start with an explanation on how to create the videos with these websites, and then we will tell you the list of services. And as we always say in Xataka Basics, if you think we have left some important service We invite you to say it in the comments section so that all readers can benefit from the knowledge of our xatakers. Runway One of the great tools for Create Artificial Intelligence Video. You will only have to describe what you want with a Promptadding first an initial image that you can modify as you want. This will be the starting image to generate the rest of the video. Unfortunately Your free version is very limited. When you register for free, you are given 125 credits of a single use, and when you finish it, it is over. Therefore, although the quality of the tool is good, its free mode is a temporary demo. Artlist A website with which you can Create videos from images by AI. You have two options, first create an image from text and from there create the video, or upload a photo or image that is used as a reference to create the video from it. You will be able to choose the appearance ratio and define with a prompt what you want. The page It only allows you to generate a free videoin addition to five photographs. If you want more, then you will have to pay. As for the results, they are quite improvable, those of the creation of images too, and the quality of the video will depend on the starting image, and you cannot even download the video if you do not pay. Fotor This service will allow you Turn a photo into a video. You can upload a photo to use it as a reference and create the video from it and, if you want, also a photo like the end of the video. Then, you can choose a style like anime or cartoon so that the video has it. As is normal, the amount of tokens you have in the free account is quite limited, and they are also aspects such as video quality. But the results are fast and not bad. Akool A website with which you are going to Create animations from photographsbeing specialized especially in portraits or characters. You go up the photo and his AI will give him life with natural movements. This website is able to generate videos up to 4K qualities, although in its free version the maximum is 720p. Other limits you are going to find in your free plan is that The videos will have a water brandand that you have a cap of 1.5 minutes. File sizes can be, at most, 150 MB, and the processing is much slower and takes longer to generate the video than payment users. Hailuo This is one of the best services to Create videos with artificial intelligenceeither from a prompt or From a reference image. You will only have to upload the photo or image you want and describe what you want to happen. The great disadvantage is the great limitation that its free plan has. Not only for supporting only 6 second and 768p videos of resolutionbut also because the amount of tokens they give you is so low that you can barely create one or two videos. Adobe Firefly Adobe Firefly It has a payment function to create videos with artificial intelligence, although you can Create two free videos of test of about 5 seconds. It’s little, but it allows you to make a couple of short creations and thus prove your possibilities. Although most options are limited to the payment option, when creating video you will be able to choose the resolution and the appearance ratio, in addition to the frames per second and the duration. You can also upload a photo as a starting scene so that the video is generated through it. Deevid This is a specialized tool in create a video for AI from a photo. The amount of tokens that give you for free barely lets you create one or two, but it serves as proof and to see their results. You will be able to determine the engine to use, the duration of the video and the resolution. AI chicken A simple AI to be able to create videos from photos using artificial intelligence. It allows you some control, such as uploading your photo and describing in a prompt what you want it to happen. Its free version has limits in the tokens number, but you have a rewards system to get them for free. To give an example, make a video from an image in minimal quality are 2 tokens, and if you want to do it 720p they are 4. and thus, the more demanding it is more tokens cost. While, Every day you do check in on the web you will win 2 tokens Free, so by visiting it you can win enough to go by making videos. Monica ai An artificial intelligence tools suite with many possibilities, including the option of Encourage images with AI To turn them into video. It is designed to be easy to use, and you simply have to … Read more

How to create videos with artificial intelligence: 13 essential free tools

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Let’s tell you the best programs to create free artificial intelligence videos So you can give life to your ideas. Although the quality of the videos is not yet up to the images, they promise to be the next great revolution of artificial intelligence. However, before this revolution arrives we will tell you the main current alternatives. Virtually all the services we are going to tell you are paying, although with free versions that allow you to try them as a demonstration. Almost all also offer a small monthly or daily chip recharge, so you can continue using them for free, although With limited resolutions and with water marks. We are going to start with an explanation on how to create the videos with these websites, and then we will tell you the list of services. And as we always say in Xataka Basics, if you think we have left some important service We invite you to say it in the comments section so that all readers can benefit from the knowledge of our xatakers. How these videos are created To create videos with artificial intelligence using any of the programs that we are going to propose, what you will need is to write a prompt or command in which you describe what you want it to appear in the video. Then, the AI of the service will generate it. Many of these solutions also allow Create videos from images. This means that you can contribute a photo or drawing that will serve as a starting point, and then the AI will generate what you ask from it. There are two other types of videos by AI You can find yourself. The first is the images based on images that are moving with an off voice, where you will be able to contribute a script with what you want to happen. And finally, you will also be able to create Videos with an avatar speakinga person explaining something with a voice generated by the saying what you write. These can be used for explanatory video types. In all cases You will need to create an account In the services that we are going to tell you, and then you will be given a series of free tokens that you will use to create videos. The amount of videos you can create depends on each service, but there are usually few. Hailuo We start with this emerging service, simply because It is the one that has given the best results in the tests done to compose the article. It is quite new but offers decent results, and you will have enough free daily credits and for several videos. You simply have to use a prompt describing what you want and ready, in a few minutes you will have a prepared video. Your free plan only supports 6 second and 768p videos of resolutionalthough these can be from a text or generated from an image. I see 2 Google is developing its own AI engine to create video, whose latest version is I see 3. Although this is limited to payment users, there is a way you can Test the previous versionI see 2 that is totally free through the Ai Studio portal. The quality of the videos is quite lower, and we have encountered numerous problems due to excess use. Come on, that if there are many people using it at the time you want to create a video, it will directly give you error and you will not be able to do it. Adobe Firefly The function of creating videos with artificial intelligence of Adobe Firefly It is payment. However, allows you to create two free videos of about 5 seconds, as a test form, although for this you will also need to create and identify with a user account. Although most options are limited to the payment option, when creating video you will be able to choose the resolution and the appearance ratio, in addition to the frames per second and the duration. You also have adjustments to choose the camera or movement. Capcut Capcut is a popular multi -tool in which you can make all kinds of creations with artificial intelligence. Among them, is the possibility of create a video from a text that acts as script. You describe what happens in the tool, and this creates it. This function is free, but it has a trick. Videos are not moving imagesbut a succession of static images created with ia that happen, and with a background voice that reads the script you have written. Basic and does not give what it promises, but at least they don’t ask too much. Runway One of the great tools for Create Artificial Intelligence Videowhere you just have to describe what you want with a prompt. First you will create the initial image, which you can modify as you want, and then you already generate the video from it. The negative part is that Your free version is very limited. When you register for free, you are given 125 credits of a single use, and when you finish it, it is over. Therefore, although the quality of the tool is good, its free mode is a temporary demo. Kling AI Another good somewhat more generous tool in its free plan, since it offers 166 credits per month that are recharged monthly. Then, in general the videos can cost about 20 credits for 5 seconds, something else depending on the additional configuration options. Unfortunately, the version to create video to video videos is disabled unless you are a payment user, although you can always use another AI to create an image and then use the creation of video to video, which is what can be used in free mode. Of course, a free 5 second video may take more than 3 hours to generate if you do not pay. Invideo This is a kind of chatgpt for video. Has a free mode … Read more

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