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The tech college majors that will change the world
With the arrival of new technologies, the possibility of creating new careers that help to improve and / or replace these technologies created with a better perspective of the future has been opened. As is known today, Artificial Intelligence (AI) is creating new jobs and as it continues to develop it will create more than 58 million ...
7 tips to maintain an ideal work-life balance and avoid burnout
In Bustle we read 7 tips, recommended by experts in human resources and wellness, about the long-awaited balance between personal life and work. Although some have defined working hours, from 8 to 4 in the afternoon, many professionals have more chaotic lives that can border on a somewhat strange dependency on work ...
How is the use of electric cars going in Mexico? Here we tell you
Which states have adopted the most the use of electric cars in Mexico? Surprisingly, not Monterrey but Edomex. Mexico City, the State of Mexico and Jalisco are the three entities that reported the highest number of hybrid and electric vehicles sold in the first quarter of 2018, while Tlaxcala was the state with ...
The Mexican company that is developing robots that will receive orders
The Laidetec company is incubated by the UNAM and has technology developed by researchers from the same institution to produce robots that simplify human activities such as caring for pets and routine tasks such as telling stories? We share the information of ID Agency: At Laidetec, a company incubated at UNAM, researchers develop robotic systems at a low ...
Get to know OKR: the methodology used by Google, Intel and Linkedin is simple and forceful
If we talk about work methodologies, there are as many as successful companies and ways of seeing the world of work. It is not the same - for example - how a legacy company like IBM works to the organized chaos of a startup as Uber or Airbnb were until recently. Talking about methodology is almost a sacred topic for him ...
The difference between local servers and cloud servers
When choosing a web hosting service, as we have documented in Webirix on other occasions, it is important to know that there is no type of hosting that accommodates all needs, starting from the economic issue. The investment of a VPS is recommended for projects that are somewhat more demanding than those of ...
What to study Data Science is one of the careers with the most future
As you get closer to deciding what to study after high school, doubts arise about whether to go down some conventional path such as Law or Industrial Engineering, or to risk one of the new careers that satisfy a new niche, as in your moment was the dilemma between Interior Design ...
What you need to know about One Drop, the glucose meter compatible with iPhone and Watch
The Apple Watch, which just a few years ago launched an entirely new line of products for Apple, has failed to position itself as a fashion item or a luxury consumer favorite, so Swiss watchmakers are sleeping soundly ... for the moment . What has been achieved with the Watch is the ...
Pixar's 22 Storytelling Lessons Are Valuable Selling Tips
One of the hottest marketing buzzwords these days is the famous Storytelling, which is just the flashy way to talk about something that good salespeople, advertisers, marketers, and communicators have always done: create an engaging narrative to sell better. Some of the best storytellers, of course, tend to ...
The chip that allows simulating drug tests in humans has arrived
One of the main ethical controversies in the world of drugs is human testing, necessary for research but also with possible adverse results for those who agree to be test subjects for remuneration. A future where they risk less could be possible with a chip to study the ...
What to know about the Raspberry Pi 4
The promise of the Raspberry Pi is simple: a computer the size of a small fruit, rather than the hulking desktop PCs a decade ago. In the end, the mass industry has opted for other forms of personal computing (Android phones, ultra-thin laptops, sticks to watch Netflix on televisions) but ...
Do you want to work at Disney or Nike? These guides can give you an idea of the process
Tobias Van Schneider is a designer and art director, who has become something of a nano celebrity in the creative-tweeting world due to his time in the design department at Spotify. Although he is German, he has already changed his residence to New York, and his stay in the United States (which helped to raise ...
How to cut YouTube videos from the browser and without downloading them before?
If you work in digital media or in an office where you constantly need video inputs to work, you have surely seen the need to make the minimum cut of a video that is already in the cloud. In other words, take only a few seconds or minutes of a clip that already lives on YouTube. ...
Fix inactive search bar in Windows 10
If the giant Windows 10 June 2019 update left your search bar (aka Cortona) buggy, let me tell you, you're not alone. The official Microsoft update had some bugs but few are as annoying as the one that causes that when typing in the search bar (next to the Menu ...
Would it disturb you to see a robot suffer? The explanation for your reaction to the Boston Dynamics parody video
Boston Dynamics is a company, which has investment from Google, which today is dedicated to producing and developing robots in the most conventional sense of the word: they are usually machines with humanoid or animal-inspired shapes, with a creepy naturalness. As much as they are bugs programmed and controlled by their creators ...
The difference between artificial and human intelligence
On February 28, 2015, an African-American programmer named Jacky Alciné tweeted in obvious annoyance: “Google Photos, they're fucking wrong! My friend is not a gorilla ”, after an Artificial Intelligence (AI) system determined that the person who appeared next to him in one of his selfies was not a woman with skin ...
Mexican scientists' plan to convert conventional to electric cars
Previously on Webirix we have talked about the costs of a Tesla and also the interesting way in which it has constant income cleaning up the sins of conventional shipowners: by selling them green bonds that it has to spare, thanks to Elon Musk's investments in solar panels and clean energy, in addition to tax benefits ...
The reason Google employees don't let their kids watch YouTube
One of the ancient ideals of the internet was that free access to information, as well as the democratization of the dissemination of knowledge, would make us a better society. In 2019, such claims have failed due to the rise of harmful conversations with network trolls as well as the misuse of content platforms by ...
The perfect city through the centuries: 26 maps showing the evolution of Barcelona
Barcelona is a kind of Holy Grail for fans of urbanism. since the modern version of the Spanish city has a planning where the pedestrian is a priority in its tourist areas, thus breaking the hateful world trend in which public spaces are practically centered around the car. Another enviable aspect is ...
What we need to understand about Libra, Facebook's cryptocurrency
One of Facebook's efforts to increase its profits, following the privacy scandals that the Cambridge Analytica disclosure unleashed, has been to be an intermediary for payments and money exchanges. Although the co-founder of PayPal (Peter Thiel) is on the board of directors of Facebook, it is not exactly a platform of ...
Meet the lawsuit of a startup against Google for breaking its slogan of 'Don't be Evil'
Google, the star company of the parent Alphabet that shares a name with the search engine that turns out to be its star product, a few years ago was guided by the following motto: don't be evil. I mean, don't be evil. That was before the times of the constant need for profit to justify its value to investors. Today we have ...
How do I keep my cell phone priced for resale?
Or rather, tricks to resell my mobile The life of a cell phone today is very different from that of the same category but 10 years ago. Even than 5 years ago. In 2010 it was lunatic to think that more than 20 thousand pesos would be paid for a device, to be tied to installments ...
Playing via streaming is already the future of video games
Home connection speeds, at least in the first world, are normalizing the easiest way to consume content: streaming it. Streaming, then. If 10 years ago it seemed difficult to watch a 720p movie without lag as if it were 'play' - a video from the hard disk, today (and ...
How much do Mexicans spend for Father's Day? Prepare your business!
This will be spent by Mexicans on gifts for Father's Day. Topical celebrations like Father's, Children's, or Mother's Day are perfect opportunities to bring customers to retail businesses. Even more niche issues such as Day of the Dead or relevant sporting events are issues that are repeated periodically, so ...