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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 ...
Do you want to leave all Google services? This list has alternatives that do respect your privacy
Big tech companies, for better or for worse, have shaped today's internet culture. We are talking about veterans like Amazon, Microsoft or Google, as well as players with a little less history. Specifically Facebook with its social network perfectly designed to meet our tastes and interests, to make them the perfect bait ...
We found a point of sale system with a free license for life
In the world of retail (or retail sales), information is power. Whether you have a grocery store, restaurant, or boutique, it's really important that you're in control of your inventory, what you sell, and when you sell it. While you may think of a spreadsheet as more than enough, the daily movement ...
This app did use your microphone to listen without your permission: The curious case of the Spanish La Liga
A common assumption is that our phones are listening to us all the time. And that is why, in theory, we are shown advertisements for things we have just talked about. The two common suspects, Google and Facebook, have denied the case, since in reality the information that we give them by ...
The health risks of cyber attacks
Cyberattacks endanger the security and economy of one or several nations, they can even affect the health and economy of people; however, "it is an exaggeration to say that they could unleash a global conflagration," said Fabián Romo, director of Institutional Systems and Services of the General Directorate of Computing and Information Technologies ...
The difference between productivity and efficiency
The holy grail of workdays has two much-mentioned words: productivity and efficiency. Both are valuable and help in the great goal of any job, whether you are an entrepreneur or part of an organization: finish the day's work, then enjoy the fruits of the work. In 2019 it is not exactly a grace to be a workaholic. ...
The Brief Guide to the most efficient and purposeful Feedback for teamwork
In work environments, feelings, no matter how professional we are, are on the surface. Everything and nothing is personal. And without falling into a cliché, this kind of culture of respect and of losing a bit of boundries between co-workers [and friends] is typical of millennial people (remember that they are the ...
How to send a confidential email by Gmail? Here we tell you
Since May 2019, ordinary Gmail users as well as clients who have contracted Gsuite (which is Gmail with their own domain for most) can use a super useful and sought-after function called send confidential message. Entering this mode is not witchcraft (as email regret was a few years ago) but ...
A rhythm of schedules that will help you have more productivity in your day
We know that for many, creativity comes at night and maybe you even feel productive at the same time when solving those big problems from 11 at night to 4 in the morning, but we also know that this is not exactly a healthy or functional habit in our lives. society. The rhythm of life according to ...
Domain and hosting together in the same account: When is it convenient?
Whether it is the first time that you are going to start a project on the internet, or if you have some experience, there is usually a debate: Is it better to buy my domains in a separate account, and then choose a hosting service? Do I take advantage of the accommodation offers offered by the same stores in ...
How to properly clean your smartphone? (Which has 10 times more bacteria than the toilet bowl)
Today, cell phones are an extension of us. If aliens were to observe us as a Western society, I would say that we spend long hours a day rubbing some shiny rectangle-shaped mirrors. That's how absurd our dependence on mobile is. So much so that it is not only the main form of communication and equipment ...
The ironic constant inflow of money for Tesla? GM and Fiat Chrysler payments
Earlier on Webirix we talked about the real cost of a Tesla and its daily electricity charge. Bottom line: while the car is up to 2 times more expensive than others in simulated ranges (an Audio A4 petrol versus a Model 3), recharging electricity is ridiculously inexpensive. In this context, Tesla ...
UNAM creates sustainable micro-housing
The UNAM creates a prototype of a sustainable house of 14 square meters. It is a proposal that will help solve the problem of the lack of urban land in Mexico City and its Metropolitan Area. In this context, professors and students from the Faculties of Architecture and Engineering of the Maximum House of Studies, created ...
The mistakes that led Apple to go back to classics with the Mac Pro 2019:
Yesterday Apple presented its new Mac Pro models during WWDC 2019, taking the precedent of the infamous trash can presentation of 2013, a peculiar and rare Mac that enchanted industrial design enthusiasts for its black color and resemblance to a small trash can. Although it was a ...
Get to know a webapp so you never run out of ideas in UI
Although I am totally foreign to the development of applications or websites, except for simple edits to ready-made WordPress themes, in the world of Twitter design communities I found a curiosity that will delight (or at least be useful) for those dedicated to the User Interface or UI. It is about UIBOT, a small webapp ...
Why does alcohol disinhibit people?
Have you ever been uninhibited by drinking alcohol? Don't you know why you said what you hadn't said before? The next day did you feel sorry for everything that happened? With alcoholic beverages it is very easy to lose control, but all this has an explanation and is in your brain. In an interview for UNAM Global, Eduardo Calixto ...
The last good MacBook Pro is the one from mid 2012
The Pro Mid-2012 is the last MacBook with home expansion capabilities, and therefore the last good Mac
Climate change and its participation in natural disasters
"The lack of water and disasters such as droughts, floods, landslides and subsidence are associated with global warming and uncontrolled urbanization," said Priyadarsi Roy, researcher at the Institute of Geology (IGL) of UNAM. During the inauguration of the academic workshop Water, climate change and disasters, the first event of the newly formed Alliance of Mexican-Indian Geoscientific Opportunities ...
One of the worst damages caused by not sleeping well
With information from the UNAM: Obesity not only has to do with eating behavior or sedentary lifestyle, factors such as lack of synchronicity in our daily activities and the cycles of light and dark in the environment also contribute. Thus, sleep deprivation, night work or 24 by 24 hours ...
Jumbo is a free app that automates the cleaning and protection of your Facebook and Twitter history
Given the controversies and recent events over privacy issues in the most used social media platforms, the hunger of users to protect their data from technology companies and advertisers has increased. For example, although there are advanced users who know the intricate menus of Twitter, Facebook and other websites, the common thing is that ...
The invention mexican to create wooden houses resistant to earthquakes
A graduate of the University Center for Exact Sciences and Engineering, of the University of Guadalajara, created plates or sheets of novel material made of recycled plastic. The so-called "plastic wood" is used for the construction of houses with economic, ecological and useful life benefits, but also resists earthquakes. “With a shudder, rigid materials tend…
What We Need To Understand About Stress: How To Fight It And Cope With It
Stress is an automatic and natural response of the body to challenging situations; positive, negative or imaginary changes are capable of triggering it. It is necessary to have stimuli and to act before daily life, explained Argentina Robledo Domínguez, psychologist of the General Directorate of Health Care of the UNAM. It is a bad of ...
The trick that nobody has told you when it comes to advertising on Facebook
For a year, much of my day was spent advising an agency's clients (or rather the account executive) on how they could make the most of their small budget for social media advertising. It was a kind of specialty for me and, something logical given the profile of the agency, ...
LABChico is the first underground laboratory in Mexico
ABChico will be the first underground laboratory in Mexico. It will be built 100 meters deep inside a mountain in the Río el Milagro tourist area, in Mineral del Chico, Hidalgo, and will seek, for the first time in the country, to measure the natural radiation in the area and detect polluting materials, mainly lead. in water u ...