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Meet the Mexican company that doubled its production thanks to scientific research
One of the holy grails of the industrial sector is the effectiveness and efficiency at the time of production, since -simply- the more you produce (at a lower cost and without losing quality), the more you could sell, although you have to take into account the demands of the market. It turns out that in Coahuila there has been a curious case in ...
Stop using straws? Actually, what would help climate change is to stop eating red meat
Although there is much talk of individual actions to avoid climate change, such as the repeal of the use of commercial plastics at the city level, some experts affirm that these positions are more an activist curiosity (which will have little impact in the medium term) and that rather they should be measures at the industry level those that change to ...
This is how the intelligence of the autonomous cars of Google and Waymo evolves
Previously on Webirix we have talked about the race to bring autonomous cars to market by Uber, with the bittersweet experiment of Otto trucks, and Google through its Waymo division. When Google sued and invested in Uber, at the same time Amid intellectual property theft lawsuits (the ...
Did the space race die decades ago? No, but it was too expensive, here are five failures to prove it:
Although Elon Musk via SpaceX wants to excite us with the launch of satellites and rockets, the truth is that the space race has cooled down for several years due to a cost / benefit issue. Nor did it help that there were five failures (some not so well known) of aerospace experiments. We take from the MIT Tech Review, the 5 ...
Why do we stalk on social media? There are professional reasons, but also disturbing
Dr. Sofía Rivera Aragón, a professor at the UNAM's School of Psychology, said that there are various reasons why we stalk, which can be professional, personal or related to groups. Currently, in the workplace, companies ask the applicant's social networks to find out what their preferences, tastes, values and affinities are, to ...
Attention hackers: Apple now offers 1 million dollars to anyone who violates the iPhone
It turns out that Apple offers a million dollars to anyone who manages to hack an iPhone. This initiative is part of its 'Bug Bounty Program', which consists of giving rewards to those who detect programming errors in their systems and equipment. Until now, Apple offered $ 200,000 for this service, a figure similar to its ...
UNAM's blokchain project wins international award
Although it is not something that widespread before the world in general, blockchain technology is already the next big thing and from Mexico some scientists and engineers are getting down to work to win a slice of the cake. We read in UNAM Global, in a note by Fabiola Méndez and Damián Mendoza: Covoir is made up of researchers from ...
What Automattic, the company behind WordPress, will do with the purchase of Tumblr
Tumblr is the clear example of what happens when a giant company absorbs a small promise from the internet, with millions of users but no business model. The company founded by David Kaarp popularized the tumbelog format but its real success was the button to share the publications within its own blog ...
The Mexican documentary that covers the history of videogames
When, in 2016, Asher Sandoval and Christian Rodríguez left their jobs at the legendary video game magazine Atomix (transformed into a website, about five years old at that time) to start BarcadeVG, I suppose they did not imagine that video productions would become their specialty. and that they would even be making an original series about ...
We tell you how to make a successful minute for your work meetings
Work meetings are an excellent opportunity to know the status of your company's operations, identify conflicts and be able to solve them before they alter your projects; however, meetings can turn into a nightmare if there is no proper strategy or if they happen just out of habit. According to ...
Tired of Facebook ads chasing your history? With Firefox you can avoid it
It has happened to all of us: we go in to look for some sports shoes, video games or even baby products and all day long (on PC and mobile) we are haunted by advertisements of the same category that we browsed previously. If you saw some Nike and entered MercadoLibre or the official website, you will not stop seeing that ad until ...
What Science Says About Social Media "Friendships"
In these media there is no link between people, and their relationship has not passed the tests that a true friendship should sustain: Juan Pablo García Acosta, from the Iztacala FES of the UNAM Some network users have hundreds or thousands of "friends ”, And with that same word anyone is named,…
Speed up your Windows 10 startup with a hack that takes you 1 minute
With this tip you can even improve any modern version of Windows (7 onwards), and especially the startup of Windows 10. It happens that every time we start our computer, a lot of programs that we have installed as time goes by usually modify the configuration to open processes automatically. Generally, if we are average users, only ...
How to Cut and Convert Facebook Live and YouTube Videos from Your Browser
If you work in the media, a social media agency or you are the press officer of an office, it is very likely that you have found yourself in the following situation: you have to download a video really fast, on a PC without editing programs, maybe even without the ability to install one, and just ...
Mexican scientists create prototype needle-free injection
Many fear injections because of the sting. While some are painful and strong, others are quite light, but the terror is the same for those who do not like injections. For them, this news will come in handy. We quote from ID Agency: In order to innovate in the method of applying vaccines ...
Meet Justina, the Mexican robot from UNAM that swept Robocup 2019
Justina obtained second place in the RoboCup world competition, in the Home League category, only surpassed by the University of Koblenz-Landau, Germany In the same competition, but in the Standard Platform League category, the robot “Takeshi”, with university software , got the fourth place We share from UNAM: Justina, the android on duty of the ...
A strange optical illusion makes us see human faces in a very peculiar way
On the internet we find an optical illusion that makes us have a nightmare vision by looking at a point fixedly. It happens that with completely common celebrity stock photos (think of a Brad Pitt or Angelina Jolie that you have seen hundreds of times in magazines, websites, movies and digital photos), added to a cross ...
Explainer: This is HarmonyOS, Huawei's competition for Android and Google
The saga of Huawei, Google and the future of the Chinese company with Android has taken a new turn with the following news: HarmonyOS will be the official name of the operating system (derived from pure Android, without Google apps) that will take center stage in all Huawei's gadgets for the next three years. The …
Electric scooters do pollute ... a lot: MIT
It turns out that e-scooters are not as good for the environment as previously thought, due to their nature of being shared (via apps like Lime, Bird and Jump) and the replacement they give by having a car or by asking for a Uber at the slightest provocation. In the MIT Technology Review we read ...
MkLeo is the Mexican who triumphed at EVO 2019 (and Smash Bros.)
Before the world went crazy for Fortnite, the most popular version of competition between gamers was in competitive fighting games (think Smash Bros. Melee or Street Fighter III: 2nd Impact) and its greatest exponents participated within EVO. MkLeo is a Mexican who is making history within EVO ...
You can now Instagram posts from PC and in Facebook Creator Studio, we tell you how
One of the holy grails for community managers has been to be able to program on Instagram, a social network that had remained (until now) apart from giving official tools such as those that Facebook has to control the time in which content is published. Some attribute it to the early nature of Instagram: the…
Consume more or less meat?
What are the consequences of eating only vegetables? Mariana Isabel Valdés Moreno, head of the Nutriology career at the Faculty of Higher Studies, Zaragoza campus of the UNAM, explained that this food is essential in the diet because it has nutritional characteristics such as iron, in addition to providing fat. According to the interviewee, ...
What does it mean that Ninja leaves Twitch for Mixer?
Ninja is the most famous streamer in the world and has left Twitch to broadcast exclusively on Mixer, a Microsoft platform that is a distant second in terms of specialized live video game platforms. In fact, we could consider that Mixer is an even more abysmal third place because YouTube also has content ...
The Mexicans who created bioplastic from potato peel
In Mexico, of the 100 million tons of potato produced annually, only 33 percent is recycled. In addition, according to the National Institute of Recyclers (INARE), in 2012, only 67 million 810 thousand 700 tons of waste were recycled. Therefore, contamination due to disposable products has been ...