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Keys to the new government tax that big technology does not like It is still unknown how much will be collected but the law will be processed "imminently", although some multinationals have already complained Amazon, Facebook, Google or Twitter have in common that their fundamental business is based on the sale of advertising 'online', in the intermediary activities of digital platforms or in the commercialization of data that is generated with information provided with the user. Therefore, these companies -among others- will pay in Spain the new tax on technological platforms promoted by the Montero cabinet. These are the three assumptions that the finance minister detailed as the bases on which the "imminent" rate for digital services would be based. Although he placed special emphasis on his first appearance before the Finance Committee in Congress where this newly created tax "will not affect SMEs or medium-sized companies", the lack of specifi...

Artificial intelligence makes diagnoses with almost full of successes BioMind AI beats doctors in a medical contest Google has driven artificial intelligence from its DeepMind division to the medical field, but the search giant has emerged as a competitor in China. BioMind AI, developed by the research center in artificial intelligence for neurological disorders of that hospital and by a team of the University Capital Medical University, is able to get it right in nine out of ten diagnoses. This happened in a contest organized by the Tiantan Hospital in Beijing. The artificial intelligence system performed in 87 minutes 87% of correct diagnoses out of a total of 225 cases, compared to 66% obtained by the team of doctors. As for the prediction of cerebral hematoma, its accuracy was 83%, while doctors guessed right in 63% of the cases. In both tests, the level of accuracy of the humans was "quite normal and better than the average of accuracy achieved in ordinary hospitals," sa...

Samsung sends photos by chance to contacts without consent Eight years have elapsed since the studio, based in Amsterdam, laid the first stone of the adventure of Aloy. Angie Smets, executive director of the company, outlines the challenges and difficulties of bringing the company to fruition Iker Cortés After a lifetime building the foundations of 'Killzone' , the saga of first-person action that has been running across all Sony platforms from PlayStation 2, should give vertigo raise a new franchise from scratch. "I think it was in the middle of the development of 'Killzone 3' - recalls Angie Smets , executive director of the Guerrilla Games, during his speech on Gamelab, the International Congress of the Videogame that was held last week in Barcelona. We were thinking in the long term and we asked ourselves if we were taking advantage of all the talent of the team and how many ideas we could extract more ideas from this universe ». Makes sense. After all, compani...

Magic Leap glasses are now a reality They combine the real and the virtual and they will arrive this summer After long months of waiting and several delays, Magic Leap, finally, sets the date for the launch of its famous mixed reality glasses. Although, really, there is no concrete day will be in the «summer of 2018», informs the company. In addition, Magic Leap has revealed that their devices will reach the market with an Nvidia Tegra X2 chip and a Denver processor installed. For the announcement, the company has made a live broadcast on its Twitch channel in which it has revealed the arrival of the glasses to the market during this summer Magic Leap One are augmented reality glasses that will allow you to combine and experience the real world and the virtual world. In addition, Magic Leap and AT & T, the US telecommunications company, have shared a statement on their respective websites in which they reveal a strategic relationship between them, which is why AT & T is the exc...

Samsung sends photos by chance to contacts without consent An error in your Samsung Messages app sends images to other random devices If you have a Galaxy Note 8 or a Galaxy S9 you have a small problem. «My Galaxy S9 Plus has sent my entire collection of photos to my girlfriend while she was sleeping». This was the alert this morning a user of Reddit and that has caused a fire in Samsung . The problem lies in the Samsung Messages application . This app, predetermined in the Galaxy series, mistakenly sent messages, including stored photos, to random contacts. A user of Reddit has even stated that «Samsung Messages sent his complete photo gallery to a contact in the middle of the night». A shipment that leaves no trace, which causes users may not know that their photos have been sent before it is too late. Fortunately for that user, the reel of images stored in his Galaxy went to his girlfriend. Samsung, which had not detected the error, "has reviewed this matter thoroughly in recen...

                               Year one post roaming What do you need to know in order not to overpay if you travel in Europe? Far is left when one stepped on Paris or Berlin and looked for places to connect to the wifi to share with friends the photos of the trip. It has been a year since the technology frontiers in Europe have fallen and now any citizen can use the mobile networks of any country in the Old Continent - including Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway - at no extra cost. Goodbye surprises at the time of arrival of the days of rest for an excess in the bill of the mobile. A measure that, with the value of technology today, has been almost as important as the 1992 Maastricht Treaty, which gave the green light to the free movement of people in the Schengen area. Like any rule, it had a small print that it still maintains . On the ...

War on mobile at school France approves the veto of smartphones in schools and institutes. In Spain, the use of personal electronic devices in the classroom is not regulated It is an essential and in few occasions we separate from him. The mobile seems like a human appendage and regulating its use in certain situations has become a necessity. France has put the batteries and seems to have started a war against smartphones in what places. Thus, President Emmanuel Macron has banned cell phones at meetings of the Council of Ministers.  Neither emails nor whatsapp nor Twitter. Nothing that can deconcentrate during the act. After giving an example, the next step to take is that of 'detoxification' in schools. Students will have to learn to remove the 'mania' of being with the mobile while the teacher is explaining the lesson. Although the norm goes further and will also be present the prohibition in the time of recreation. So it would be better to leave the phone at home. Th...

                          Robots become fast food chefs The kitchens of the restaurants are modernized and technology takes over the stoves The first restaurant in the world that offers a robotic kitchen that cooks complex meals". This is how Spyce , an American restaurant that opened its doors in Boston a few months ago, is presented . In his letter we can find an assortment of salads of different chefs, but prepared by a giant robot facing the public. "The robotic kitchen is a tool that helps us to be more efficient without losing quality," explain the restaurant managers. Gone is the failed Flippy experiment . The robot cook of Miso Robotics and Caliburger could not stand the pressure of working in a chain of fast food establishments. His parents said he was ready to put up with the pressure and cook 300 hamburgers every hour. Flippy did not pass the test perio...

A multimedia treasure in the Prado Samsung presents the first application of the museum developed for a permanent installation available for smartphone and tablet The cultural dissemination has in the new technologies a helping hand that allows to transmit its content and awaken the interest of a public that perhaps otherwise would not seduce. In this way, museums are currently in a second or third digital revolution. Ambitious and promising Multimedia content that completes the information that the user receives and access to works of art in a much more attractive, didactic and playful. This audiovisual support is present in the Prado Museum and more specifically in the new setting of the 'Treasure of the Dolphin' - a set of 'rich glasses', which belonged to the Great Dauphin Louis of France (1661-1711) who, after his death, inherited his son Felipe V (1683-1746), first Spanish Bourbon. The space offers visitors a trip through the work that includes valuable pieces and...

                                   Skills to get an extra Wannatry is the latest addition to the market of service platforms, where the user is the total protagonist He came to stay. It was not easy to understand but it changed the lives of many. The collaborative economy is useful and brings benefits. And more than half of the Spanish population used services of this type at least once in the last year, says a report on collaborative economy in Spain. The majority of those who used this service, between 35% and 40%, did so to make a purchase or sale of second-hand goods. The system works mostly through mobile and there is life beyond Airbnb or Wallapop. Now, for example, one can earn money by not only renting a room that he does not use or by selling a pair of pants that he has only put on once. Anyone with a specific ...

Facebook unlocks the contacts of 800,000 users by mistake The ruling, which took place between May 29 and June 5, adds to the various scandals related to privacy in the company The social network Facebook has admitted this Monday that it unblocked the blocked contacts of 800,000 users over several days, an error that, he assured, has already been corrected. In a statement, the company reports that the massive unblocking occurred between May 29 and June 5 and that "this problem has been resolved and everyone has been blocked again." The social network said that in 83% of cases only one user was unblocked and added that it is notifying the 800,000 affected of its failure. The Silicon Valley company also claimed that the error "did not restore friendships that had been cut" with the locks, but it did admit that unlocked users could access shared content through third parties and get in touch. The admission of these failures of Facebook occurs at a delicate time for the...

Google allows third parties to spy on your emails The search giant claims that it only gives access to developers with consent The applications and the giants of Silicon Valley reappear in the same news in the media and reawaken the fears of the users. The last affected is Google, according to information from The Wall Street Journal. This newspaper warned that external software development companies had analyzed the inbox and even reviewed the content of millions of personal emails to develop free applications. However, Google has ensured that these signatures can only access personal emails from Gmail when users have offered their direct consent and that it only gives access to previously verified third-party applications. The Google APIs allow developers to use the Google accounts of users as an authentication and authorization factor, for example. In this sense, in the policy of using the API for developers, Google requires external companies to publish a privacy policy that fully ...

The European Parliament votes tomorrow the European norm of rights of author Wikipedia is temporarily shut down in Spain in protest of the proposal The European Parliament votes tomorrow on the proposal of the European Commission to change the community rules on copyright. The initiative has met with the rejection of internet giants such as Google, Facebook or YouTube because it forces the platforms "that facilitate public access to large amounts of works" to take the necessary measures to ensure the "proper functioning" of the agreements reached with the holders of copyright or, where appropriate, to "prevent them from being available in their services". Specifically, the law stipulates that multinationals in the network must systematically filter the content that users upload to these platforms, something that they reject because of the increase in costs that would have to create new control tools. It also recognizes the legal right of the media to claim...

The New Zealand justice authorizes to extradite to Kim Dotcom to EE UU The founder of Megaupload and its three partners will be tried there for alleged fraud and violation of copyright The Court of Appeals of New Zealand has endorsed this Thursday that the founder of Megaupload, Kim Dotcom, is extradited to the United States to face the charges imposed against him for alleged fraud and violation of copyright. The decision thus resolves the appeal filed by Dotcom and ratifies the ruling issued by another court in 2017, which dictated that the extradition process could be launched. US authorities have indicated that both Dotcom and three other executives of the file exchange platform - also accused - have caused losses of about 500 million dollars to film studios and record labels in the country. In addition, these would have generated more than 175 million dollars in profits by getting some users to pay to store and share the material that would be subject to copyright. The defendant...

A divided Euro-chamber postpones its position on the copyright directive to September The plenary has refused to defend before the Council the hard position already agreed by the MEPs in committee Not yet. The plenary session of the European Parliament rejected this morning the negotiating mandate already approved by the Legal Affairs Committee on the new directive on copyright in the digital age presented by the Commission in 2016 and looking, 'grosso modo', defend the European creators of the 'anything goes' of the great American technology like Google or Facebook. What the plenary session has done is to freeze the whole procedure and give time until September to agree on a new negotiating position to defend in the trialogues with the Council (the 28 countries) and the Commission. The vote, very tight, has had 278 votes in favor, 318 against and 31 abstentions. Misinformation and controversy has marked this process, as many MEPs have denounced. In fact, today the dire...

Your phone is spying on you, confirmed A new study analyzes more than 17,000 Android apps that monitor the user without consent Have you had a face-to-face conversation with someone and suddenly a related content jumps into the smartphone? Perhaps this situation is known and the question has been asked on more than one occasion: Is our cellphone spying on us? This question they have tried to solve again and again, the last ones have been the researchers of the Northeastern University of Boston (United States). After months of research they already have a conclusion: "Our study reveals several alarming privacy risks in the Android application ecosystem, which include applications that over-provision their media permissions and applications that share image and video data with other parts of unexpected ways, without the knowledge or consent of the user », explains the study. The research was focused on the search for microphones working in the background and the surprise has been op...

This is the school of the future of Elon Musk Goodbye to gymnastics and music and hello to robots Ad Astra (Towards the stars in Latin), this is the name that Elon Musk put to his dream of a school south of Los Angeles (United States). In 2014, the five sons of Tesla's CEO went to Mirman in Los Angeles, but he did not like the methods of the American school. "It's important to teach problem solving, or teach the problem and not the tools," Musk said in an interview with Beijing Television in 2015. "I did not see regular schools doing the things I thought they should be done," he added. The doors of Ad Astra opened on July 20 of that year for children between 7 and 14 years old. In the first year of the school's life, it had 20 students and now the figure has risen to 40. The rumors after the birth of this school were to teach and educate the children of the workers of Space X, but "it is not clear to which workers the offer is made, or how many or u...

The Spanish do not leave the mobile nor in summer They consult their mobile more than two and a half hours a day Spaniards consult their mobile phone more than two and a half hours a day during their vacations, with an average of 46 minutes spent on social networks, 55 on instant messaging and around half an hour to attend professional email. Although the holidays change the routine of the day of the year, two out of ten Spaniards are not able to disconnect from the smartphone, while the other 80% consult their mobile an average of two and a half hours a day, according to a survey through the Tiendeo.com portal. The average use on social networks during the holidays is 46 minutes a day, while the use of instant messaging reaches 55 minutes, and professional email queries are around half an hour. The behavior of the users gives according to the age group, proving that it is the youngest (between 18 and 24 years old) who invest more time with the mobile phone. On the other hand, those be...

WhatsApp offers reward to end false news The instant messaging service presents the research awards against misinformation False news is a problem recognized by the technological giants. Google, Facebook and all its universe are working against the clock to end this particularly sensitive problem in WhatsApp. The shared news and the chains of messages spread without control in the instant messaging app are becoming more and more and their creators have not found a way to stop or reduce them. Therefore, Facebook has decided to seek help outside of their company and has launched the WhatsApp Research Awards, awards that will be given to those who present projects that help improve the platform and combat the spread of rumors and false news in the platform. This contest will have as incentive a prize of 40,000 euros and the proposals will be received until August 12 of this year. "The WhatsApp Research Awards will provide funds for independent research proposals designed to be shared...

Videogames: addiction or fun? The sector accounts for 0.11% of GDP, but more and more calls for control of its use and content for children, especially after the proliferation of 'loot boxes', rewards boxes for which you have to pay English and nine years old, she is the protagonist of the last case of addiction to video games. Your problem? He spent about ten hours in a row playing the title of fashion among young and not so young, the 'Fortnite'. The alarm was given by the teachers, since it was common for the child to fall asleep in class. According to her parents, the little girl was able to spend sleepless nights or urinate on her so as not to interrupt the game. This is not the first case in the British Isles, since a few months before the authorities of the country and treated a teenager of 15 years for the same diagnosis. Faced with this situation, the World Health Organization (WHO) has updated its International Classification of Diseases, which for the first t...

A child as the best technological ambassador of others Beyond subjects such as programming, it is key that they understand the operation of applications they use every day Ten-year-olds may not know what cloud computing is about when older people talk about technologies and services such as cloud storage. But they are one of its main users. In order to be aware of all the possibilities offered by these technologies and to become technological ambassadors of other colleagues, Amazon Web Services conducted a workshop with students from the Santa María la Blanca school in which these students practiced first hand what technologies such as the Internet of Things (IoT) allows to do. Every time it is more frequent that children receive in the classrooms all kinds of technological education. In fact, in communities such as Madrid, programming is already a compulsory subject starting in secondary school. Generally, these subjects are taught by adults. But, what if we let the children themselve...

Clothing with emotions Constanza + LAB presents a proposal composed of intelligent garments that transmit the feelings of its wearers through light They do not have a soul but they can be able to make people feel or express the way in which they find themselves. Because feelings are not easy to express and sometimes you need extra help. And the clothes can be a great ally . Dressing in a certain way or wearing a specific look adds an extra to maybe meet that person in front of us. This is what can be understood from the premise of QUANTUM , the winning fashion collection of the tenth edition of Samsung EGO Innovation Project and that has inaugurated the first day of MBFWM (Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Madrid). The project of the firm constanza + LAB uses an ecosystem IoT (Internet of Things)which presents a proposal composed of intelligent garments that transmit the feelings of its wearers through the light of various preconfigured colors.  «The pledge empathizes with us. We use ligh...

Donde reside internet The connection centers play a fundamental role in the visualization of digital contents There may be few things more exasperating for any user than trying to watch a video on the internet, and that it takes a while to load, that it pauses every few seconds or that the image becomes pixelated and loses its sharpness. So that when observing this content on any device (PC, mobile or television) and that comes from the Internet is done with quality, several factors intervene. One of them, perhaps the least known, is that of "neutral" data centers: large computer factories through which information circulates and which allow improving the user experience. In computer data networks 'latency' is the sum of the time delays within a network. That is, the time that passes between the content is sent from one point and reaches another network. The lower this time, the lower the latency and the better the network and the quality of the experience. These neut...

iPhone, rich phone A study of the University of Chicago associates the smartphones of the giant of Cupertino with wealth The latest iPhone X costs around 1,159 euros in Spain, while the minimum interprofessional salary (SMI) stands at 735.9 euros per month. That is, for a Spanish to buy the latest iPhone model, he needs a salary and a half, figures that also apply to other devices of other brands. A study by the University of Chicago has confirmed one of the technological prejudices of the 21st century: if you have an iPhone, you live very well. The National Bureau of Economic Research of the University has revealed that the iPhone is a symbol of wealth as obvious as it is necessary to study the population. According to the study, six out of ten Americans who own a smartphone from the giant of Cupertino has a high income, but without calibrating if the user has saved to buy a device or is inherited. In addition, the iPhone is also one of the devices that last more in the pockets of con...

Fiber optic has the key to anticipate earthquakes Researchers achieve these cables in the detection of seismic movements Fiber optic cables are the best earthquake detectors, according to the study by Philippe Jousset and Thomas Reinsch of the GFZ German Research Center for Geosciences published in Nature Communications. In this study, the scientists sent pulses of laser light through an optical fiber, which was part of a 15-kilometer-long cable deployed in 1994, within the telecommunications network on the Reykjanes peninsula, southwest of Iceland. This light signal was analyzed and compared with data sets from a dense network of seismographs, results that even surprised the researchers themselves. "Our measurements revealed structural characteristics in the subsoil with an unprecedented resolution and showed signals that equaled the data points every four meters," Philippe Jousset said in a statement. Although the method is not new in other applications, the team is the fir...

This algorithm is almost as good as a doctor This neural network matches the ability of cardiologists to detect a heart attack In recent years, the group of diseases of the circulatory system remains the leading cause of death (with a rate of 267.6 deaths per 100,000 inhabitants) in Spain. When a blockage occurs in the circulatory system and blood is prevented from reaching the heart, this problem can lead to myocardial infarction or cardiac arrest. A quick intervention or quickly tackle the first signs of cardiovascular problems are key to successfully overcome this important health problem. Artificial intelligence and technology are allied to patients and researchers Nils Strodthoff and Claas Strodthoff. These doctors have developed a neural network capable of detecting the signs of myocardial infarction. A project that, according to the researchers, "is capable of equalizing the performance of human cardiologists". To collect information from their neural network, the Stro...

YouTube and Wikipedia, marriage to end the fake news The video platform will invest 25 million dollars to fight against them A few days ago, Facebook offered $ 40,000 to fight the fake news on Whatsapp. This week, YouTube has announced that it will invest about 25 million dollars to end the hoaxes and rumors in its video platform. In recent months, the division of Google has been sprinkled by several scandals with videos with content not suitable for children on its Youtube Kids platform and also by images broadcast messages from terrorist groups. At an event held in New York (USA), Youtube executives have announced a campaign by the hand of Wikipedia to work with "accredited" sources that spread news that is more relevant within the service. This announcement involves the incorporation of links to the Encyclopedia Britannica or Wikipedia in conspiracy or controversial videos. With these changes, YouTube hopes to put an end to the misinformation and manipulation that can occu...

United Kingdom imposes the maximum fine on Facebook by Cambridge Analytica The social network "did not provide the kind of protection it must offer according to data protection laws" The authorities of the United Kingdom announced today that they will impose a fine of 500,000 pounds (565,000 euros) to the US company of social communication Facebook for violating the data protection law in this country. The Office of the Commissioner of Information (ICO, in English), which ensures privacy and freedom of information, indicated that the company violated its duty to protect the personal information of its users and was not transparent about how other companies accessed those services. data. The ICO is investigating from February to Facebook, along with the British consultant and closed Cambridge Analytica , for the alleged improper access to the data of 87 million users of the social network worldwide, which could be used in the referendum campaign on the membership of the United...