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Long live Mario, the longest-running video game plumber

This is Mario, an Italian plumber (but designed by a Japanese) who stars in more than 100 titles of different video games.With more than 25 years behind him , this character seems not to lose a bit of agility and continues to reign platform games. The landlord who named the character They say that Nintendo in the United States was working on distributing its games when the owner of the warehouse claimed the payment of the rent, which was being delayed. At that time, Donkey Kong was the most successful title of the Japanese factory, although it was already worked on other characters, such as Jumpman. The owner of the Nintendo headquarters in the United States was named Mario. Nintendo staff jokingly started calling Mario the character Jumpman , which already appeared in some games, and ended up giving the name to character. The first title in which Mario appeared was in Donkey Kong Jr, the sequel of which, until then, was the most successful video game of the Nintendo factory. ...

The kiosk and the town doctor, “influencers” on Instagram

The scenario in which we live is global but our reality is local.We care what happens out there, but we also want to find out about the everyday things that happen around us. Nadia Molero, from Secrets of Valdemorillo We want to hear from family, friends or acquaintances.Sometimes we even, less and less, talk to our parents, and they update us on events in the neighborhood or town in which we grew up. In the era of the "influencers", where there is a fierce struggle to discover how Instagram algorithms work to get followers and sell a product, it's hard to find accounts that don't want to sell nothing, not even oneself. We don't move for art's sake. And the future is no longer what it was.These days we talk about the possibility that Instagram will stop giving information on the number of followers and the number of likes.This would change the picture, but it's just an unspecified possibility. The "town account", on Instagram and Faceb...

No kidding: selfitis exists and can be a problem

Sometimes one thinks that social networks were created to share photos of faces putting on little bones and images of dishes overflowing with appetizing foods or, better, of faces putting little bones in front of plates overflowing with appetizing foods in the same shot.is to see faces, faces, faces...all of them smiling, as if looking at the smartphone mirror was the height of happiness.And it does not seem that there are so many beautiful and happy people, or maybe yes, that you go Namely.What envy. Well, what we're going to do: Janarthanan Balakrishnan psychologists from the Thiagarajar School of Management in India; and Mark D.Griffiths, of the Nottingham Trent University, in the United Kingdom, have published an article in the International Journal of Mental Health and Addiction entitled 'A study on' Selfitis', which names this mania of going around the world taking pictures of oneself, as if beyond our curls the world had been destroyed by that meteorite th...

Gucci and Instagram: a good color scheme

Angelica Hicks, in New York, in front of one of her creations for Gucci Instagram has become a powerful promotion tool for brands and, especially, for fashion firms. Influencers with Lovely Pepa, Paula Ordovas or televisions Dulceida and Pelayo Diaz count their followers for millions and the photographs that go up to this network become references of the «fashion» for young and not so young people who look for them inspiration before going shopping. However, this soundbox function of what brands decide is evolving and companies like Gucci are already starting to recruit talent on Instagram to shape their collections and build a community that complements and reinforces their promotional actions. Gucci in search of inspiration and talent Alessandro Michele , the creative director of Gucci, has been one of the pioneers in the use of shared intelligence that finds a fertile ground in social networks.Since his appointment in 2015 he has promoted the search for Instagram insp...

Wikispaces closes and the BNE tries to save Spanish wikis

A couple of months ago, Wikispaces already warned its users: it closes next July .The US wikis service will progressively close its sites, from free to premium, that will disappear at the beginning of next year.Secondly, you can read on their website, the complete technical review that they have carried out over the last twelve months on the infrastructure and software they use to serve Wikispaces users confirm that the investment required to adapt the infrastructure and code to modern standards is very substantial. wikispaces closes for economic reasons »We have explored all the possible options to maintain Wikispaces, but we have considered that it is no longer viable to maintain the service in the long term.Therefore, with a little nostalgia, we will begin to close this year», the statement continues. Wikispaces is a free web hosting service that was founded in 2005 and, since then, has been used by educators, businesses and people around the world.Now, for economic reasons, ...

These are the 7 reasons that explain that Tesla is the company of the moment

On March 31, the technology company Tesla launched the Tesla Model 3, a smart car designed for a wider market than we had used until then, being a kind of version «affordable »Of its previous model, the sedan Model S. With a price that goes from $ 35,000 , a few days later, the reserves rose to 276,000 cars, which means between double and quadruple what the company had planned, in the words of Elon Musk himself, CEO of Tesla. This massive demand has meant that, on the one hand, Tesla can "die of success", since it does not have the means to manufacture such a number of vehicles.On the other hand, Tesla has achieved what has never been seen: Dozens of buyers in car dealerships .Then the question is: what are Tesla's secrets? Let's look at some of the reasons that explain this success 1.Opportunity Luck or business vision, the truth is that Elon Musk was right in 2009 when he decided, with a guaranteed loan of 465 million dollars that the US Department of Ene...

Science confirms: parachutes do not save lives by jumping off a plane

Science has done it again.He has given us an unthinkable headline again.We have to jump off a plane and there are no parachutes.Can we survive? According to the latest study by researchers at Harvard Medical School and the University of California, among others, the parachute does not make a difference.Their data confirms what scientists at the University of Cambridge had already described in 2003. Related But how is it possible? Most readers who have entered this article have been caught by what is now known as a clickbait headline.That is, a headline that induces clicking, but the linked content is not It corresponds exactly to what is advertised.That if, this time, it goes with good intentions. SERIOUSLY DOES PARACAIDES NOT SAVE LIVES? Most of us take it for granted.We have seen it in movies and series.We have read it in fiction novels and they have told us that this is really the case.If it is time to jump from a plane, better grab the closest parachute, but maybe they...

Propaganda in social networks, the lubricious dream of the great Bernays manipulator

Propaganda on social networks such as Facebook and Twitter is a powerful tool for manipulating public opinion according to a set of studies carried out within the Computational Propaganda Research Project by the Oxford Internet Institute, of the Oxford University.To reach this conclusion, on the other hand nothing surprising, researchers have analyzed the use of social networks for the manipulation of public opinion, between 2015 and 2017, in Brazil, Canada, China, Germany , Poland, Taiwan, Russia, Ukraine and the United States. Bernays, women smokers and eggs with bEIcon Today few know Edward L.Bernays, father of the theory of propaganda and public relations , who in 1928 wrote that "the conscious and intelligent manipulation of organized habits and opinions of the masses is an element of importance in democratic society.Those who manipulate this hidden mechanism of society constitute the invisible government that holds the true power that governs the destiny of our coun...

Live the festivals on the internet and social networks without fear of cybercriminals

The summer season is accompanied by the start of the best festivals and the cities and towns of Spain are filled with stages, concerts and live music.The festive agenda has just kicked off Departure with some of the most emblematic as the BBK, in Bilbao, and the newly landed-but already consolidated-Mad Cool, in Madrid. the festivals on the net Although our country has been the epicenter of many festivals for decades, the way of living them has changed at the same pace as the digital society advances. Now, we enjoy our favorite songs through the screens of our smartphones, to immortalize the moment and share it on social networks.We download the apps of the chosen festival to plan the concert schedule, we buy tickets online, where we also look for information about transport and accommodation. enjoy without neglecting cybersecurity However, as Teinteresa.es has published, cybercriminals are very informed about these new festive routines and do not lose the opportunity to ste...

5G, a promise of the future with a present yet to be defined

The 5G is the new promise of the telecommunications sector that, predicts, thanks to this technology, a revolution that will consist in stopping connecting people to connect everything.From there, all kinds of speculation about the development of an ecosystem arise future technology, which includes autonomous cars, new mobile devices, sensors in our streets, open-hearted operations at a distance and, beyond that, applications that we cannot even imagine.However, it should be realistic about the current situation of this technology , as revealed in a meeting about this technology organized by El Espanol. Related Today, 5G only offers more network capacity to the operators who, curiously, have an underutilized 4G network."There is still spectrum to grow, so this 5G fever must be lowered to the ground.At the moment it only provides capacity and this new network will be deployed when there is m viable business models that are yet to be seen, ”said Manuel Sanchez Malagon, direct...

Artificial intelligence and social networks to fight noise

Image of ericbarns on Pixabay A team of researchers from the Polytechnic University of Madrid (UPM) has developed a text analysis system that, applied to the comments published on social networks, is able to automatically detect complaints about acoustic pollution and classify them according to their origin.The system combines artificial intelligence-specifically machine learning-with various language analysis techniques.In addition, allows predicting the occurrence of noisy events, which can help urban managers to design early interventions to avoid inconvenience and health problems for citizens.The study has been developed in collaboration with Telecom Paristech. Related Acoustic pollution It affects 25% of that of the European population.Of the 500 million people in the European Union, it is estimated that 125 are exposed to noise levels higher than those recommended by the World Organization Health: This causes public health problems and losses in the quality of life of ...

Google launches the #YoMeSumo challenge to prevent hate speech on social networks

Within the framework of the School Day of Nonviolence and Peace, Google has just presented the new campaign of diffusion We are More in social networks to raise awareness about hate speech and violent radicalism that will have the support of renowned Spanish youtubers and invite young people to participate through the hashtag #YoMeSumo. This challenge #YoMeSumo has the objective that the new generations of Our country will demonstrate against hate speech through social networks by drawing a "+1" in the palm of your hand and sharing your photo, video or GIF under the hashtag.Young people interested can also make use of GIFs and resources already available on the project website to spread the message of the good use of these tools. #Yomesumo to the good use of social networks To reach the whole world, the campaign has brought together a group of Spanish youtubers engaged in the fight against hate speech (in the forms of racism, xenophobia, homophobia, Islamophobia an...

Do you want to squeeze the maximum GIMP? Well, don't stop applying these tips

In a context in which the culture of visuals is the order of the day and in which the photo retouching has become something that goes beyond professionals, know the best image editor is essential.One of the best known is Photoshop, a tool used by experts that, however, is not free. Fortunately, it is possible to achieve practically identical results with another that does not imply any cost: GIMP.The utility, which has more than 20 years behind it is very similar and integrates, practically, the same features .Today we collect some of the best tips and tricks to get the most out of it and squeeze it to the fullest. Use the guides To start, we can talk about one of those benefits usually forgotten by many of us: the guides.A complement that will help us maintain symmetry and that we can easily visualize by simply dragging them from the sides to the inside of the editing panel. In GIMP they appear in the upper and left frame ; and they give us the opportunity to establish s...

Orange Sorpasso in mobile telephony?

In Sabemos, the journalist Raul Masa has endorsed the very popular term sorpasso to describe what may be happening in the mobile phone sector in Spain.Analyzing the data provided by the 'Report Economic Sector of Telecommunications' that develops every year the National Commission of Markets and Competition (CNMC), the journalist points to a trend that leads Orange to be very close to Movistar in a market, that of mobile telephony, that the The historical operator was leading in the last decade with ease.Orange's surprise to Movistar begins to look like something more than a dream of the orange company. And, as explained in the information, the mobile phone segment has narrowed as never before.For the first time, the three major operators: Movistar, Orange and Vodafone, move in less than five points distance market share.Only five years ago there were 21 points of difference between the first and third.This graph is very illustrative. Orange, a machine to win customer...

Connected vehicles are already among us: this is the radiography of the sector

Connected vehicles constitute a type of mobility that we tend to imagine in the future, in science fiction cinema, as when, in Yo, robot (2004) , a police officer requests several reports while driving and the system asks “What kind of music do you want to listen to while downloading?” Far from being a futuristic, it has been years since connected cars are part of our mobility. Today, everyone travels with a smartphone in their pocket and, more and more frequently, it becomes our GPS navigator through applications such as TomTom, Google Maps, Coyote or Waze, among others, when we place it in the center console with magnets or suction cups.It is a first step towards connectivity. Related That said, when we talk about connected vehicles, we tend to talk about those who either have the possibility of including an integrated SIM (eSIM, of embedded SIM ) with its own data rate; or through dashboards such as Mirror Link , a system that shows certain telephone functions on ...

Instagram accounts that succeed (for some strange reason)

Instagram is great.We know and love it just the way it is, with its eccentricities and absurd accounts.Although sometimes we wonder how Instagram celebrities do to get so many followers, we are hooked on this social network. And it is that Instagram is much more than gathering a set of beautiful photographs, that can make it even an artificial intelligence.It is a wonderful catalog of incoherent, crazy and curious accounts.And connected, of course.Today we show you some Instagram accounts that succeed (for some strange reason). A girl who rubs her face for bread We start strong, just as you have breakfast.With croissants.And there is an Instagram girl who uses her account, @breadfaceblog, to batter her face with croissants and breads of different types and textures.As such.Don't you believe it? Well, there you go: Why? Why does she do it? , you might ask yourself.Well, nobody knows.Maybe she doesn't even know it.Maybe once He fell on a bun and people laughed, and fro...

Eye, they can spy through the walls of your house with a smartphone

Our life runs submerged in a sea of ​​radio signals that allow our connection to the world thanks to mobile coverage or WiFi networks. When moving, we interact with these signals, distorting them, reflecting and refracting these waves, as happens when we move in the water. Now, a group of researchers from the University of California have developed a system that allows these distortions to be detected remotely, so that someone could spy on what we do after the door of our house with a simple smartphone. Related "Although the wireless signals greatly improve our daily lives, they also reveal, without our knowledge, information about ourselves and our actions, ”says Yanzi Zhu of the University of California. The new technique developed by Zhu and his colleagues allows an unprecedented invasion of privacy.«With just a smartphone you can locate and track people in your home or office from external walls, taking advantage of the changes in WiFi transmissions of the environm...

Tecnophobia in the era of web 3.0, why?

Social media addict, willing to stand in line for hours to acquire the latest iPhone model that has gone on the market, geek of the cackling and lover of everything related to smart devices.more than one is familiar with this profile; a true technophile who has endorsed the boom that this sector has experienced over the past few years. However, it is not the only type of user that was born with the famous development of this sector, but it has also been done by another who points to the opposite side: the technophobic .We are referring to those who have a more complicated relationship with this discipline and who even have come to fear it .But how to identify them? What are the reasons for their fear? Today we address these and other issues. What is technobophy It is considered technophobia to rejection of progress in the technology sector , fear of progress and its supposed consequences, which can lead to ecological, social, ethical and health problems (precisely its argumen...