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The digital detox has been fashionable for years. It’s time to start talking like what is: a myth

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Social networks have helped us in many aspects of our life, allowing us for example to strengthen some social relationships, or taking a way to express our creativity. But all this has come with a price to pay. A cost that has noticed our mental health, which has led many to try with a time to “digital detoxification.” The problem is that it may not be too useful strategy. Not so effective. Withdraw a time from social networks It is not an effective “disconnection strategy”according to a meta -analysis carried out by a Belgian team of researchers from the universities of Antwerp and Gante, at least if we are looking to improve Our well -being. The good news: at least we do not have indications that disconnection does us badly. “The findings (…) suggest that temporarily separating ourselves from social networks may not be the approximation (…) optimal to improve individual well -being,” Write the teamwhich also points out in his study the need to continue research on alternative disconnection strategies. Ten studies. The new work is a meta -analysis, that is, a “quantitative study of studies.” The team conducted a systematic search for scientific literature that addressed the relationship between social media abstinence and one or more than three variables: positive and negative affections, and vital satisfaction. They found 10 quantitative works with a total sample of 4,674 participants. The analysis showed no significant effects of refraining from social networks in any of the three variables studied. The team also did not find indications that the duration of the period of “Digital detoxification“It will be relevant. The details of the study were published In an article In the magazine Scientific Reports. Need to investigate more. The team emphasizes the need to advance in research on this issue. According to the team itself, the study presents one of the usual problems in the meta -analysis, and is the diversity in the methodologies followed by the works included in it. A radical change. Social networks have remarkably changed how we interact with technology, for better and for worse. The problems that this poses have appeared so suddenly that our ability to adapt, to look for solutions with which to repair the possible damage has exceeded in many contexts. In Xataka | How to recover the concentration that social networks and multitars have taken us Image | Xataka with Gemini

I’ve been using Google Maps for years and I didn’t know this button. It is wonderful to follow routes on foot

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Although There are more and more optionsGoogle Maps is still The queen of navigation apps. But even the most used app, there are functions that not everyone knowsI the first. Today we talk about an option that makes Google Maps is much more intuitive on foot routes. Google Maps on foot is not the same as by car It is obvious, but the simple fact that the car moves faster makes it very easier to know what direction we have to go. When we use the routes on foot, sometimes the pointer does not move until we walk a considerable distance and, If we have confused ourselves, we will have to return to where we have come. I confess that it has happened to me many times. In addition, although generally the compass indicates the direction without having to move, but that lifts our hand who has not had problems with this. Many times the compass does not work well and It is necessary to calibrate it. With this function the headaches are over. The augmented reality to rescue 13 tricks to get the most out of Google Maps If you are going to follow a route on foot, Live View is your best ally. It is a function that uses augmented reality and indicates why we must continue in a much more visual and intuitive way. To activate it you just have to click on The camera button which appears on the icons on the right side of the screen. When you activate Live View for the first time, a notice like the one you can see on these lines appears and you will also have to accept the camera permits. Then he will ask you to notice with the camera to your surroundings to be able to “scan” the buildings and, once completed, you will see an arrow superimposed on the image which tells you where you should keep walking. Live View is a veteran function on Google Maps (arrived in 2019) and is available in all areas where we have the option to use Google Street View. However, it is not a super known option and, at least, it has turned out Very useful especially being traveling In new cities. In Xataka | A small town in Holland has the solution to mass tourism: to fool Google Maps

They have needed six years, dozens of patrols and a helicopter

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Czech police He has managed to arrest To the driver who for years surprised all the Internet for appearing sporadically on the highways of the country at the wheel of a car. The 51 -year -old man was arrested after a persecution that involved several patrol cars and a helicopter. One last time. It all started last Sunday 8:15 in the morning when the agents They received the notice of a formula 1 car reposting in a gas station near Dobříš, about 40 kilometers southwest of Prague. Two minutes later a second call arrived: the vehicle circulated at high speed on the D4 highway in the southern direction. In just 15 minutes, the driver was intercepted in the town of Buk. There was resistance. The images of the arrest, where the police claim that they were recorded by the driver himself And his son shows a tense confrontation of almost ten minutes. The pilot, dressed in his red monkey and helmet, refused to leave the car arguing that the police were invading a private property. “There is a policeman everywhere,” you hear screaming in the recordings. He finally gave up and was transferred to be interrogated, although he refused to declare. Six years of search. The persecution of this “ghost pilot” It began in 2019when the first videos of the car appeared circulating on Czech highways. In 2022 he was sighted again, but on all occasions the helmet prevented the driver. The speed radars captured the images, but the investigation stagnated again and again. According to Czech police, They had already located And questioned the vehicle owner in the past, who denied having driven him by road. The legal problem. In case there was any doubt, circulating with this type of vehicles on public roads is prohibited in the Czech Republic. The car lacks lights, flashing, registration and other mandatory security elements. “Race cars of this type cannot legally circulate on the roads because they do not meet the legal technical requirements,” They explained The authorities. There is also the theme of the sharp edges of the vehicle, since they represent a danger for both the driver and the people circulating around. The truth about the Ferrari. Although the driver himself and the media have described him as a Ferrari of Formula 1, automobile experts They have identified The vehicle like a Dallara GP2/08, a car developed by the Italian manufacturer for the GP2 series, a category that functioned as prelude to Formula 1 and that is now known as Formula 2. It is commented that the driver came the entire car to look like a F1 ferrari. The consequences. The case has now passed to the corresponding administrative body to determine the sanction. The driver faces a fine of between 5,000 and 10,000 Czech crowns (between 200 and 400 euros) and the withdrawal of the driving license for a period of six months to one year. The detainee’s son think That the police response has been disproportionate, with “several dozen patrol cars and a helicopter for an alleged traffic infraction.” In Xataka | For Shaquille O’Neal the biggest obstacle to conducting a supercar is its height: they have manufactured a tailored corvette

Gorillaz revolutionized the Internet 26 years ago with a flash website. Now they recreate it with modern technology … and the same aesthetics

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If you lived the Internet at the end of the nineties, you certainly remember Flash animations overflowing pageswith embedded videos, interactive parts that were sometimes like complex riddles … They were the first steps of the web exploring their potential as an advertising tool, and all groups wanted to have a digital presence. Gorillaz made one of the most sophisticated proposals, and now … his virtual house has returned. A walk through Kong Studios. In 1998, we could take a digital walk through the interior of the alleged studies where the Gorillaz virtual band lived and rehearsed. It was a website that worked under the missing and cried Flash, and was full of Easter eggs for fans, extra material that was not on the discs, miniguegos … a large amount of material that grew for ten years, when it ended up closing. The best non -existent band in the world. Gorillaz is a virtual British band founded that same 1998 by musician Damon Albarn (Blur) and the cartoonist Jamie Hewlett (Creator of Tank Girl). The group is made up of four fictitious animated members (2-D, Murdoc Niccals, Noodle and Russel Hobbs), whose history has been developing, in more or less real time (they have been aging, in fact) through an elaborate narrative universe. Gorillaz He was born as a criticism of the superficiality of the MTV -type media, and with their characters, Albarn and Hewlett wanted to subvert the codes of the pop stars. They debuted in 2001 with a homonym album, where they already had successes that merged rock, hip hop, electronics and pop. Since then, and Despite more or less prolonged parenthesisthey have not stopped recording and playing live, with sophisticated assemblies that respect the virtual identities of the members. Kong Studios rises. Gorillaz (who are now more active than ever) have brought back that original walk through the Kong Studiosthey have reprogrammed the web so that it is not necessary to execute flash, but it remains faithful to the original aesthetics and limitations: rigid animations, pixelated visuals … and with a gift, a game (which seems programmed, really, in 1998) where we must enter the cemetery that surrounds the study armed with a shovel to defend ourselves from the attack of some zombie gorillas The legendary ‘Clint Eastwood’ video clip. More of the same. The original site provided half an hour of delusional minijuegos, a jukebox where the then short discography of Gorillaz in full could be reproduced, including unpublished remixes and versions … in This video You can remember what that walk was, which has not been replicated with total accuracy, but in large part. Enough to miss the days when the presence of the bands on the Internet was not a mere Instagram account, but a real effort to dedicate their fans, with gifts and interaction with anyone who would give them some time. Long live the flash. With one aesthetics that today we would consider squeaky and excessive In these times when gray is the norm, Flash Player, deceased since December 31, 2020 He laid the aesthetic basis (and almost philosophical) from another internet era, where everything was a chaotic jungle of animations and games made by clown in their rooms. Kong Studios was an Asian luxury compared to the shabby and debauchery that he camp on an internet without limits, one that will not return: although we can celebrate it as it deserves, returning to the Gorillaz domains. In Xataka | Large rock bands have found how to extend their withdrawal indefinitely: with digital avatars

Germany has discovered that a teacher saved a million euros. And what did he do as he was on 16 years

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The OECD He placed Germany in front of a mirror: that of the country developed where less hours work a year. Behind the figures (just 1,331 hours per year) There was a culture broth marked by economic deterioration and a nation that moves between two poles: lengthening the days or valuing life more outside of work. And in between, scandals that have reinforced the perception that labor laxity is unsustainable. The case of a low teacher since 2009 has lit the debate. An unusual case. In Wesel, North-Westphalia Rhine Since 2009sixteen years without reincorporating his post, but fully charging his salary, which over 16 years added around one million euros (between 5,000 and 6,000 euros per month). During all that time he presented monthly medical certificates, although he was never required an official recognition to accredit his status. The anomaly came to light when, after years of bureaucratic inertia, a new official detected irregularity In 2024 and ordered the medical review. When he was finally asked to undergo a medical examination, the teacher responded demanding her employer, claiming violation of rights, as she had done before in front of an attempt to transfer in 2017, but this time she lost the litigation. The Ministry of Education of Renania del Norte-Westfalia has described The issue of “serious failure within the Bezirksregierung of Düsseldorf” and has promised a “concessions” review of all internal procedures. Implications The teacher’s official granted her Extraordinary protectionincluding the right to leave indefinite with full salary, provided that it was properly accredited. However, local reports suggest that during their prolonged absence he reached Found a company Medical and exercising as a naturopath, activities that, if confirmed, would violate the obligations of prior notification and prohibition of parallel works during a decline. Not just that. He came to participate in entrepreneurship competitions, getting to obtain A 5,000 euros award for a cream of your invention. According to the labor lawyer Ralf DelgmannNot only infringed the regulations that require prior authorization for any secondary work, but would have done it while perceiving a medical leave, which feeds the suspicion that he was never really incapacitated. This could cost his pension, salary and even the condition of official. Even so, jurists warn That retrospectively demonstrating the absence of disease is practically impossible, so the recovery of wages already perceived is unlikely. A symptom of a major problem. The scandal, airy by the German presshas raised a debate about the rigidity and at the same time the vulnerability of the official statute. While private employees go on to collect reduced benefits After six weeks, officials keep the salary even for years, provided there is effective control. The case demonstrates how a Supervision vacuum prolonged allowed an anomaly to be consolidated for almost two decades. Although the Ministry insists that it is not a systemic problem, but about punctual negligence, public opinion perceive that confidence in the public function is committed by episodes of abuse like this. A long process. The media in Germany tell that the newly opened disciplinary procedure can Extend three or four yearstime during which both the actions of the teacher and the omissions of her administrative superiors will be investigated. Beyond its individual outcome, the case has become a symbol of control deficiencies in German administration, evidencing how a single poorly managed file can erode the credibility of an entire system. Plus: Beyond the judicial outcome, what remains in evidence is the urgency of rethink a casualty model That, in his eagerness to shield officials, he opens the door to abuses that end up being paid by society as a whole. Image | Pxhere In Xataka | The myth says that Germans work more than the Spaniards. The data tell a different thing In Xataka | Some researchers have analyzed the working day in Spain: the same thing that 40 years ago is worked, but in worse jobs

Apple has succumbed to what was resisted for years: megapixels do matter

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Apple has already celebrated the traditional Keynote to present your devices For the coming months. He has renewed his three Apple Watch families (with the Series 11, SE 3 and the Ultra 3), but we also have some Airpods pro 3 that began to be necessary. The main course, as usual, are the mobiles and we already have on the table the iPhone 17he iPhone 17 Pro and the iPhone Air that arrives to compete the curious Superdelgados playground. Much of what is presented is conservative, but we had something very curious that does not usually happen with those of Cupertino: They have marcheds. Twice, in addition, and with two decisions that concern a single model: the iPhone 17 Pro. The first is rectifying with the materials, passing the glass and the titanium to aluminum, being a Better material to solve a problem that the iPhone have been dragging for years. The second has to do with the megapixels of the Telefoto camera. Because for years Each new iPhone defended that the telephoto only had 12 megapixelsnow they take chest with a new 48 megapixel sensor. And with an optical zoom that is 4x instead of 5x of the last generations. The 48 megapixels of the iPhone 17 Pro Telefoto When the rest of the mobile industry He embarked on a race to conquer the megapixels (24, 48, 64 megapixels that strengthened in the mid -range, 108 and even 200 megapixels), There were a few companies that remained faithful to their philosophy: Google and Apple. Not directly, but implicit in their presentations, both defended that the 12 megapixels allowed sensors with pixels of a larger size, improving the capture of light and, at the same time, allowing computational photography to be carried out with agility (without long waiting times in the process) and with files of a contained size. Because climbing megapixels has a weight in the result: The same is not processed A photo at 12 mpx than one at 50 MPX and, the smaller the pixel of a sensor, the more megapixels, but less light “catch” and there are worst results with high lights and with shadows, for example. But the day arrived: Google went up to 50 megapixels with the Pixel 6 Pro and Apple did the same reaching the 48 megapixels with the iPhone 14 Pro. The approach of both has gone very hand, using those extra megapixels to make available to the user A 2X digital zoom which is a sensor cut. This has been called for years “zoom with optical quality”, not “optical zoom” because the software uses the main camera as hardware, but virtually cut the sensor to make that 2x increase. Quality is, in many cases, indistinguishable to that of a photo taken with a 2x optical. It would be necessary to talk that the focal distance of a 2x optical offers a different perspective, but in terms of image quality, those 2x of iPhone and Pixel are excellent. However, while the rest of the competition mounted sensors with more megapixels in all its cameras, Apple kept the telephoto anchored in the 12 megapixels. And so since they premiered it in the iPhone 7 Pluswhich is said soon. Telefoto sensors were being more and larger, yes, but the resolution did not change and that had a price: the digital zoom of the iPhone from the optical zoom of each generation (2x for years, but later 3x and 5x) It was far behind the rest of the industry. With increasingly present and mobile computational photography with an increasingly clear zoom thanks to that hardware mixture (lenses + megapixels) and software, Apple was staying behind. Until now. Finally, those of Cupertino have taken a step forward with three cameras with 48 megapixels. Thus, photos can be taken at full resolution or use the factory resolution (12 megapixels, but with larger virtual pixels to improve photography exposure and control size), but above all, allow a higher quality digital zoom. With the iPhone 17 Pro, Apple states that It is “how to have eight professional goals in your pocket” And, far from the brave marketing, they are part of reason. The iPhone 17 Pro has three cameras: Wide angle or 0.5x Main or 1x 4x Telefoto But, with different clippings of the sensor and the macro mode using the wide angle, we get 1.2x, 1.5x and 2x “hybrids” and one step further: an 8x that will be the one that applies the same formula as the 2x a couple of years ago: a cutting of the 48 megapixel sensor of the telephoto. In addition, it is a sensor 56% larger than the previous one, so photodiodes will also have an adequate size. On paper, It is more user versatilityand about practice is good news. It is true that the word “digital” has a tremendously negative connotation when we talk about the zoom due both to what the digital cameras did years ago and to the digital results of the mobile themselves, but with those clippings of the sensor that are achieved using large sensors And with a lot of megapixels, the thing changes. Photos with the 3X optical honor Magic V5 and with the 10x “hybrid”. Quality is brutal | Photo: Xataka It is Apple surrendering to evidence And, although we have to wait for the analysis of the iPhone 17 Pro to test these cameras, examples such as those seen with the Honor Magic V5he Pixel 10 Pro or the Samsung Galaxy S25 UltraThey allow us to excite ourselves with that 8x “of optical quality.” Now, there are those who can see it as a step back with respect to the 5x optical of the iPhone 16 Pro and iPhone 15 pro maxbut from my experience with the 2x hybrid of the iPhone (even of the 16 base), I think it is a movement in the right direction. And it is also about to see how the strictly digital zoom behaves beyond that 8x … Read more

Toyota has been using a megaprensa for 90 years to make cars. They have transported half planet to continue using it

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In 2024 About 92 million vehicles were manufactured worldwide. Plants like him Hyundai Ulsan Colossus Manufacture one every ten seconds Thanks to a tremendously specific machinery. One of the machines that are used are prey, Monsters such as Tesla Gigapress that allow to shape the metal in a few seconds, but despite innovations, Toyota has a press that has been working as the first day and resist to leave. In fact, it is older than the car company itself, when Toyota was nothing more than a loom manufacturer. The Komatsu press. Now, Toyota is not only one of the Industry powersbut an example of reliability and one of the most manufactured cars. It is one of Japan’s economic engines, but a century ago, things were very different. In the 1920s, Toyoda (it was named for the surname of its founder, Sakichi Toyoda) It was a company that manufactured looms. Curiously, Keep being. Toyoda Automatic Loom, from 1924, was considered the most advanced loom in the world and the company saw that it should not be so different from an engine, so they got to work. They created their first engine, also their first car and, to accelerate production, acquired a huge 700 -ton press manufactured by Komatsu. This purchase was made in 1934, when Toyota was already in the car business, but three years before the formal foundation of Toyota Motor Corporation in 1937. With its 700 tons of strength, it could work with large body panels, shaping the metal sheets with ease, and it was the one that helped boost the business during the first years in the first years in the first years in the first years in the first years in the first years in the first years in HONshus plantto. The flag in the Sao Bernardo plant Travel. Masahiro Inoue, CEO of Toyota for Latin America and the Caribbean, highlighted That it was incredible that a Japanese company acquired such a large team before the war, since it had to be “incredibly expensive.” According to Inoue, they were able to face the purchase thanks to the money obtained by the sale of Patents from the Automatic Loom to a British company. During five years, the Komatsu press gave life to some of Toyota’s most iconic cars, but in 1962, they decided to open their first floor outside Japan. Located in Sao Bernardo, the factory needed specialized machinery for the local Variant of Land Cruiser, and decided that the Komatsu press should be installed on that new plant. After a very complicated logistics due to its dimensions and weight to move it to Brazil, for 39 years, the already veteran press proved to be vital for the construction of the Toyota Banderiant. After the end of the production of the SUV in 2001, he continued in service stamping pieces both for the Corolla as for the Hilux. Back home. In November 2023, the Sao Bernardo plant closed, but that did not mean the death of the veteran press. Toyota was, and it is still a machine factory, and I don’t know whether for adherence to the press or for something merely practical, They announced that he would return to Japan. In fact, as we read in Toyota TimesThey affirmed that he would have his own tribute because his new destination would be exactly the place he occupied in the Honsha plant during those years in which he helped to shape both cars and the company itself. President Akio Toyoda approved that “functional conservation” of the machine, because it will not be a mere museum piece: it will serve both for use in the manufacture of spare parts and to train the new factory employees. An icon. For 90 years, the Komatsu press has been key in the development of Toyota both for what it helped to forge and for representing that first large deployment of the company outside its borders. At this point, it is part of the spirit of the company, but also a sample of how, for certain such specific tasks, the passage of time and the creation of new machinery has not been able to take this pillar of the automotive ahead. Now, as Inoue commented, it was sure to be “greatly expensive”, but after 90 years, the investment is well amortized. Images | Toyota In Xataka | This monstrous machine of 580 tons builds bridges as if it were flying

In 2023 New York closed the tap to Airbnb to protect his home. Two years later, only hotels are happy

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To desperate problems, imaginative solutions. A few years ago New York decided to stop the housing crisis which has long dragged with a measure that put the focus directly on Airbnb. The baptized as Local Law 18 made renting floors to tourists, for short stays, of less than 30 days, results Much more complicated and thus achieve a double objective: enforce the sector regulations and protect the low housing offer in the city. The norm premiered just two years ago. And the balance is far from being the ideal. A name: Local Law 18. New York is not the only city that has proposed to limit the supply of holiday rental. Something have done in Florence, London, Barcelona either Madridto name just a handful of examples. The attempt of the Big Apple resulted in particularly media, both because of the repercussion that the city has and its content. The known as Local Law 18approved in September 2023, imposed limitations to those who were dedicated to lease their houses for periods of less than 30 days. From entry NY demanded that the Caseros register and prohibited AirbnB (and similar platforms) to manage reservations if the accommodations did not meet that requirement, a measure similar to that incorporated with Spain with their “Single record“Not only that. In addition to registering, the law established that the landlords must comply with certain guidelines That in practice it limits who (and especially how) can be put in the market: nothing to rent whole houses, only rooms, the hosts must be present and the number of guests is also very restricted. A double objective. With the new standard the New York authorities pursued two goals. The first, to facilitate the coexistence in the apartments blocks in which residential and holiday floors lived. The second (and most important) Palliar The housing crisis that dragged the city. Two years later the communities of neighbors of the Big Apple may have fewer problems with groups of noisy tourists, but there are serious doubts that the second purpose, the really ambitious, has been achieved. The best test was left a few days ago by the newspaper The Wall Street Journal in A broad analysis With a title that is at the same time a sentence and demonstrates that (at least) the debate remains open: “The campaign against Airbnb in New York has not improved the housing offer.” Although since September 2023 New Yorkers have more complicated to offer their floors in Airbnb or Booking does not seem that this has translated into a distension of the residential market. On the contrary, The newspaper affirms Conservative: “It is more difficult than ever finding an apartment to rent in the city.” And that is something that can be checked by consulting both prices and housing stock available in NY. What do the data say? That New York floors have not stopped becoming more expensive in the last two years. Zillow shows for example that the average long -stay rental price is now in $ 3,750150 more than a year ago. “The law does not seem to have a significant impact on getting leases more affordable,” confirms a TWSJ Jonathan Miller, manager of a real estate appraisal company. According to its calculations, the market has even reached a historical maximum of $ 4,700 per month in Manhattan, although it acknowledges that factors such as lack of new work influence that figure. Airbnb also handles data that show that NY tenants do not have it easier today than before the local law 18. The platform is an interested party and that must be taken into account when driving Your figuresbut they are eloquent: the New York City rental index rose 8.1%, that of Manhattan 8.6%, Brooklyn 7.7%and Queens 6.5%. The portal also warns of the “load” involved in rental for the pockets of the periphery families. “Almost three million New Yorkers pay more than 30% of their income for rent,” prevents. A percentage: 2.45%. It is not just about the cost of rent. The housing stock available in NY still is not what is said Boyante, which a priori would facilitate prices to soften. Miller assures That last July the vacancies for residential rental in Manhattan marked a meager 2.45%, near the historical minimum. In that same idea affects Airbnb, which a few days ago launched A statement regretting that, despite the fact that short -term rentals in New York have fallen more than 90%, “rental vacancies have dropped 0.5%” with respect to 2023. And everything, insists the platform“without signs of a significant improvement in housing availability.” But … how is it possible? The million dollar question. And it has no easy answer. To start there is something obvious and that is that the NY market It takes time facing challenges such as the rise of rentals or the shortage of the stock, which do not respond to a single factor. In addition the Big Apple is not the only US region that has dealt with The increase of housing, aggravated by the lack of new work. In your analysis TWSJ It provides data Interesting that helps to understand why local law 18 has failed to reverse the trend and its effect has barely appreciated: although two years ago there were thousands of floors available to tourists on Airbnb, they actually suppose only a small part of NY’s huge real estate cake. In early 2023 in the city there were around 38,500 Airbnb units, As needed The economic newspaper, a very low fact if one takes into account that in the free market there were more than one million residential units. Right now the special compliance office has registered only 3,000 rentals in the short term that the strict requirements of the law meet and can be announced legally. That does not mean that the remaining thousands of floors are leased by New York families that use them as stable and permanent homes. Another fact: 35,000 homes. There are owners who, not being … Read more

The Church has been trying to connect with young people for years. Now he has his best asset: the first Millennial Holy

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The Millennials They already have their own representative in the Book of Saints of the Catholic Church. Yesterday, during one massive ceremony held in the Plaza de San Pedro, Pope Leo XIV canonized Carlo Acutisa young Italian who died in 2006 with only 15 years. The fascination generated by the figure of Acutis arrives at a particularly delicate moment for Rome, which has seen how in recent years it grew disaffection Between the Church and European young people. The new “Millennial Holy” offers you a unique opportunity to reconnect with them. There are also those who have seen another opportunity: the black relic market. What happened? That the Catholic Church already has its first saint Millennial: Carlo Acutisan Italian who died in 2006, with just 15 years, victim of a fulminating leukemia. His canonization is no surprise. Although the process that has culminated with its sanctification has been surprisingly fast, its inscription has long since been more than sitting. The gears for their canonization were activated in 2012, seven years later his body was exhumed (With debate included about the “incorruption” of the body) and in 2020 Pope Francis Beatified. Since then, the procedures of the Dicastery of the Causes of the Saints have advanced at an unusual speed. Moreover, his proclamation was expected to Last Aprilcoinciding with the jubilee of adolescents, but the death of Bergoglio disrupted those plans. Who was Carlo Acutis? A young Italian. Nothing else. Nothing less. And it is that apparent simplicity that explains that it has become such a relevant figure for Rome. Having been born in 1991 Acutis is in theory the first saint of The Millenial cohort“. In fact, it is presented again and again In the international press, as “the first ‘millennial’”. If that were not enough to do so, Acutis showed another peculiarity: it was another boy of his time, with hobbies and a style that he would not disregard that of any young man of the 2000s. In recent years, Acutis has been presented as a young ‘normal and current’ who breaks with the image that usually accompanies holiness: he liked football, playing with the playstation, setting videos with his friends and seemed to feel a inclination for computer science. So much so that it is said that he used his programming knowledge, acquired thanks to the reading of manuals, to elaborate several websites for altruistic purposes, including one dedicated to List miracles. In which it is probably the maximum reaffirmation of that ‘normal’ character, as a person of his time, Acutis’s body rests after a glazed sepulcher in the church of Santa María la MayorAssisi, dressed in a blue sweatshirt, jeans and sneakers. No robes or ceremonial clothes. Why is it important? Because perhaps because of its history, its appearance or mixture of both Acutis has become a specially interesting figure for Rome. To begin with an out of the ordinary interest. It is said that throughout the last year One million pilgrims They have visited their grave in Assisi, a figure that slides The Wall Street Journalcould be overcome this year. Another proof of his enormous popularity is that yesterday Pope Leo XIV not only canonized him. In the same ceremony, holy was consecrated to Pier Giorgio Frassatianother young activist who died in 1925 with only 24 years. His name has been eclipsed by the mass phenomenon of “First saint ‘millennial’ “. “What is happening with Carlo is difficult to explain. It is something that far exceeds our expectations,” Recognize The Bishop of Assisi, Domenico Sorrentino. That devotion was evident since soon, in 2006, during his funeral. Are there more reasons? Yes. Acutis was not only a Millennial for its date of birth. The stories about his life insist that he shared the hobbies of most young people of his age, such as sport, technology or video games, tastes that combined with his religious devotion. “I was going to Mass and prayed the rosary every day,” His mother tellsAntonia Salzano. “We lived in the center of Milan, in a building surrounded by beggars. He wanted to help them, talk to them, bring them food and blankets.” In recent years It has not lacked Who warns that the image built around Acutis is forced and ensures that the young man did not like football or preferred the sports moccasins that we wear in his grave. Is that relevant? Yes it is. Acutis is a breath of air, an oxygen ball for a Catholic church that has seen how the secularism gap grew over the last years, especially among young people. At least in part of the world. In June Funcas published A studybased on data from the European Social Survey, which shows that last year only 32% of the population between 18 and 29 years was identified as Catholic. If we look at just two decades, 2002, that percentage was almost double, around 60%. It is not the only example of that growing disaffection. Another recent report Fundació Ferrer I Guàrdia points out that almost 60% of Spaniards under 44 are declared non -religious. In other European countries the situation is not very different. Recently the University of St Mary’s in London did A poll Between different countries of the continent and found that in large part of them the percentage of young adults without religion was approaching or already exceeded 50%. Yesterday, hardly the ceremony held in Rome, Leo XIV recognized Feeling “cheerful” of seeing “so many young people” and insisted on pointing to Carlo (and Frassati) as models to follow for the new generations. “They are an invitation for all of us, especially for young people, not to waste our lives, but to direct them to the top,” proclaimed The Supreme Pontiff at a time when Spanish seminars suffer A historical drought of vocations. To further reinforce their image, there are those who already refer to Acutis as “God’s influencer “ either “Internet patron saint”an honor that isor Isidoro of Seville. Does the Church interest … Read more

I’ve been using Yi security cameras for years. It was delighted until the app became an advertising hell

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More than five years ago I bought my first Security Chamber To monitor my cat when he got sick. It was YI brand and it worked great; He looked good, had movement alerts and could speak through the mic. With the passage of time I had more cats and I bought two more cameras of the same brand to cover the rest of the house. The problem is that The APP Yi Home has added advertising in its app. How much? All. It is not an exaggeration I was traveling recently and I entered Yi Home’s app to look through the cameras. I don’t lie if I say that More than once I have made me want to launch the mobile. On the main screen there are already a few ads spread there, but that is not the worst. Some of the ads that appear when I open the app or when I try to see one of the cameras. The worst are the Full screen ads. They cannot be skipped until they pass a few seconds, the button to close them is tiny and sometimes it does not work, causing it to end in the App Store, or wherever the announcement in question link. So every time I open the app. But the thing is not there, when entering each camera, advertisements also leave full screen. When you finally manage to see a camera, a banner comes out that covers the controls to be able to move it *Chef’s Kiss*. Few apps I remember that they have bombarded me both with advertising and Yi Home, although it is not the only one. A current example is Capcut, the Tiktok videos editing app. Every time I open the app, I get a full screen advertisement, but it is also that if you leave a moment and enter again, another appears. Not to mention that The entire app is a mines field with ‘Pro’ functions And they don’t stop insisting to join. Pay or suffer Yi Home has never been a super clean app. I already had some Banner type ads and has always shown me pop-ups to join the payment plan. The thing now has no name. In addition to full-screen advertising, those pop-ups continue to come out and remind me that, If I pay, advertising will disappear. On top with picn. The summum of despair. (The controls can be relocated, but was there no other place?) The cheapest payment plan if you have several cameras costs 79.99 euros a year. It seems expensive, but I think that although it would cost a tenth, I wouldn’t pay either. The thing about this app is A manual of how to lose customers. At least I know I am not the only user discontent, In Tustpilot is full of negative reviews on the same subject and in This Reddit thread There are also several angry users. In the same thread they also comment on several ways to eliminate ads such as installing previous versions of the app or configure a DNS with Ad-Block. In my case I take another way to eliminate ads. I change my chambers I had been wanting to buy a while Another 360 camera And obviously I was not going to buy another of the same brand with the problems I was having with advertising in the app. One of those days when I almost crashed my mobile, gave me to get into Amazon to see other cameras and make the decision. TP Link Tapo C210 After reading a few reviews and making sure that his app did not seem like an online casino, I opted for the Top-Link tapo. I found a Offer pack with two cameras 360 And I bought it. When I set them up, some notifications came out within the app to go to the Premium version, but I have been using it for a week and they have not reappeared. Come on, what was Yi Home’s app a long ago and that It should be normal in an app of a security camera. Images | Amparo Babyloni, Xataka In Xataka | It is not you, YouTube is filling with more and more ads. Especially if you see it on a smart TV

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