TECH DOLLAR

Nintendo reinvents its mascot with 'Super Mario Odyssey' The company announces a role-playing game of 'Pokémon' for Switch, as well as 'Metroid Prime 4' and two new titles of Yoshi and Kirby It's amazing how many lives Mario has. The video game icon manages to reinvent itself almost every iteration and 'Super Mario Odyssey' is no exception. The title, which has put the finishing touch to the Nintendo Spotlight - the video that the Japanese company launches on the occasion of the E3 in Los Angeles to present its novelties -, showed a new skill of the plumber: the ability to possess almost any character present In the colorful world of the mustachioed hero throwing his characteristic cap to the head. The skepticism generated by the first images of the title, with a carefree Mario walking the streets of a realist city that smells of New York, has dissipated when the character of the red monkey became, with a cap, a dinosaur, bullet and turtl...

The headband that prevents snacking between hours Researchers hope the technology can help provide data on diet and eating disorders   Wearables have become devices with great importance in 2017 compared to previous years. In fact, during these months a total of 24.7 million units were sold worldwide, 17.9% more than the 20.9 million sold in the same period of the previous year, according to the data handled by the consultancy IDC. A wearable technology to improve the health and physical condition of its users. In recent months, researchers at Dartmouth University and Clemson University (United States) have developed a prototype of a diadem-like device.    An Auracle project that consists of a microphone that is placed on the skin to capture the sounds that the user makes when eating. The project is still at an early stage. At the moment, the researchers have carried out experiments in which a group of people wore their prototype. However, the group of resea...

Germany takes the first step to spy communications through WhatsApp Nearly 70% of those rated as relevant by security forces are mobile phone applications Germany took the first step to be able to spy on communications from terrorism suspects through messaging applications such as WhatsApp and Telegram, which is not legally possible until now. The conference of Ministers of the Interior, which brings together the German holder of the branch with those responsible for this portfolio in the sixteen federal states of the country, agreed in the city of Dresden unanimously to expand the possibilities of interception of communications of people called "dangerous" , limited at present to emails and SMS. "The authorities must be in a legal and technical capacity to be able to intervene these messages and evaluate them," said the German Minister of the Interior, Thomas de Maizière, at a press conference at the end of the conference, which was held in Dresden. T...

Spanish young people prefer their mobile to connect to the internet Half of the population uses the smartphone at least three hours a day    At the end of 2016, according to data from the CNMC, there were 51.15 million mobile lines in our country, that is, 110 mobile telephony offers per 100 inhabitants. The advancement of technology and the easy adaptation and use of it in daily life have been an important boost for mobile telephony and smartphones. What makes Spain one of the countries in the world with the highest penetration in mobile telephony. Taking into account these data, Rastreator.com has made an analysis on the use made by Spaniards of the mobile phone and the existing generation gap in this area, presenting clear conclusions on the differences by age and, in particular, among the youngest ones ( from 18 to 24 years old) and adults between 55 and 65 years old.    According to the III Study of Online Comparison towards Smart Savings, carried o...

Spanish researchers manage to print human tissues in 3D The development of the research has the help of BQ with its printers    A team of Spanish researchers has managed to print human tissues (bone and cartilage) to implant them in the body of patients with breaks or injuries. This advance in bioprinting will allow replacing metal prostheses with implants created with the patient's own cells, regenerating tissue in people with bone diseases and avoiding clinical trials in animals. The group of experts, made up of engineers and scientists from the Complutense University of Madrid and the CSIC (ICTP - Group of Biomaterials of Luis-Rodríguez Lorenzo, member of the CIBER-BBN), prints polycaprolactone (PCL) grids in 3D, in the that the extracted cells are deposited to the patient by means of a needle added to the extruder of the printer. The cells reproduce, invade the PCL and replace it with a natural material, bone or cartilage. For the project, they use 3D printers...

The technological 'startup', a challenge in feminine Innovation and entrepreneurship will be two of the axes of debate in the next Santander WomenNOW Summit In Spain, the entrepreneurial activity of women has increased in the last year and it reduces distances with respect to men. However, the presence of women in the technology sector still records low figures and a similar trend is expected in the medium term. Santander WomenNOW Summit, the conference promoted by Vocento to give a voice to women, wants to open the debate to innovation, entrepreneurship and technology in women. 'Time is now', the moment is now. It is no coincidence that this is one of the slogans of Santander WomenNOW Summit , the event that will bring together the most renowned national and international experts to discuss and create opinion on the situation of women in the world the next 28, 29 and 30 March in Madrid. The congress has the support of important partners who have joined Ban...

Black boxes 2.0 with real-time data broadcast Companies will receive live data recorded during flights  The black boxes of airplanes are one of the most important and essential pieces of an aircraft, especially if a catastrophe or problem occurs during the flight. International regulations require aircraft manufacturers to assemble a series of devices that record everything that happens during the flight. Its function is simple and, above all, very important: store different data related to the plane. These black boxes, although in reality they are orange, record the conversations of the pilots, the height, the pressure, among many other things. Thus the airlines and the research commissions can check data by date the last minutes before an air accident to obtain a clearer and more detailed picture of the course of a flight, something especially important in the event of a plane crash.   In particular, the airplanes mount two black boxes and are manufactured w...

A failure in Holaluz would allow "know very well how is your home" Facua denounces a problem in the security of the electric power company that exposes the contracts of the users    "With the Universal Code of Supply Point (CUPS) could make me a very well designed image of a house and its electricity consumption." This is how forceful it is with Innova + Rubén Sánchez, spokesperson for Facua. This week, the consumer association has reported a serious security problem on the web page of the marketing company HolaLuz. "The data is exposed and we know it for more than two weeks," adds Sanchez. "What comes to say Facua is not true," confirms HolaLuz to Innova +. The error has been generated with the "Fair Rate" of the marketer that ensures that we do not have to "worry about how much we consume or when we use the contracted energy". To do this and to demonstrate the veracity of your bet allows the calculation of the ...

Every hour 4,000 profiles are created in the apps to link It is estimated that there are more than 8,000 online dating services, a market that moves about two billion per year    It is already Valentine's Day and it is not the motto of any commercial brand, on February 14 it has arrived and also to the Network of networks and it shows. The use of apps to link increases by 20% during the days before Valentine's Day and the concern for the safety of these also shoots up. In the memory and historical facts is the massive hack to Ashley Madison , a website specializing in dating between people with a partner, with the filtration of 733 million emails and 22 million passwords. However, online dating or flirting applications are increasingly desired. The fault lies with Tinder , who in 2012 revolutionized the way of linking. Since that year, at least 35.3% of the 80.2 million Internet users via smartphone have downloaded some of the dating apps available in the market,...

The EU already marks the step to the technological ones After months of negotiations and overcoming the pressure of giants like Google, unlock the 'copyright' directive that protects creators for final approval before May    The last key meeting to unlock the so-called 'copyright' directive , which will grant creators (journalists, filmmakers, producers, writers or musicians) the right to be remunerated when their works transit through cyberspace, should barely last four hours on last Wednesday. It ended up dilating more than thirteen. It was the last of the obvious examples of pressure, misunderstandings and, ultimately, the tremendous difficulty, which has been facing this road map to regulate the use of content in the digital environment , a pioneer in the world.    Already at the end of January it seemed to enter a dead end due to the lack of understanding in the three-party negotiation (Parliament-European Commission and Council of the EU). The trian...