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...

Twitter, Spotify, Netflix and other websites are disabled by a massive cyber attack The affected companies are investigating the failures, which could be linked to a DDoS attack, in which they try to saturate the servers' response with a wave of false access demands   Several of the main websites and internet applications such as Twitter, Spotify or eBay have registered serious operational problems due to two computer attacks this Friday against a US DNS provider, which has spread to other countries, France Press reported. For more than two hours, access to Twitter and also to media like CNN, New York Times, Financial Times or The Guardian, has been impossible in the United States and has given problems in countries such as France or Spain, although in our country unemployment It has been shorter. In addition, Netflix, the HBO chain and the Paypal online payment service have also suffered problems.    More and more common, this type of cyber attacks consist...

Facebook falls in Spain The social network has been experiencing serious problems in its service this morning that prevent access to its platform Something has gone wrong." This is the message with which the more than 12 million Spanish users have found when accessing the Facebook website. A message that can be read from 11.00 in the morning and remains so far. Neither Google Chrome, nor Mozilla, nor Explorer. As reported by the website downdetector.es, many users have highlighted several access problems, reaching its peak at noon. The problem in access only occurs through its web platform, since the rest of the social network services work without any problems. Messenger, Whatsapp, Instagram has a normal operation. However, the Facebook application is generating some problems for users. According to the data of dowdetector.es, the fall of the service of the company of Mark Zuckerberg centers in the Iberian Peninsula and also in France. Innova + has been in contact with the Facebo...

Uber will bring its home delivery service to Portugal this year UberEats, which is already available in more than a hundred cities around the world, will arrive in Portugal by 2018    The Uber transport platform will begin operating its home delivery service, known as UberEats , in Portugal before the end of the year . Sources of Uber confirmed today to Efe the imminent arrival of this service, that "represents a reinforcement of the investment" of the platform in Portugal, where it aspires to connect its users "with the best restaurants" of Lisbon. "We want the gastronomic discovery and the delivery of meals to be quicker and more convenient for Lisboetas," Uber's general director in Portugal, Rui Bento, said in a statement. UberEats, already available in more than a hundred cities around the world, intends that restaurants in the Portuguese capital, regardless of their size, can deliver their services at home through a logistics platform with the com...

Whatsapp already knows where you are at any time The latest update of the app includes the geolocation option so that contacts know where the user is moving in real time    For some time now, the possibility has been rumored that WhatsApp would allow users to send the user's location in real time, which generated criticism and support in equal parts. The privacy is one of the most controversial points, although being a tool of choice, it is always voluntary. Now Whastapp has officially announced that it is launching the function to allow its millions of users around the world to "share the location in real time with their family and friends". Specific examples in which the user can use this new option are meetings with friends, tell relatives that you are okay or share a trip home.    The real-time location is a simple and safe way to share where you are," defends WhatsApp in the statement. In addition, the function is protected by end-to-end encryption and allows yo...

Bixby 2.0 improves its Spanish Samsung presents the new version of its virtual assistant for new devices    Samsung has gone to work to cut ground to its competitors in the race of virtual assistants. Alexa of Amazon, Cortana of Microsoft or Google Assistant are some of the most recognizable names to which Samsung was added with the arrival of Bixby. During this week, South Korean technology has presented version 2.0 in its developer conference. Improvements in which Bixby will have a better ability to recognize the assistant's natural language, as well as to better recognize the individual users that use it and is also about to land in Spanish    After debuting from the hand of the Galaxy S8, the firm's engineers have renewed it and for the first time will incorporate technology from Viv Labs, a company that Samsung acquired in 2016 in exchange for 215 million dollars. A strategic purchase that has added the ranks of the South Korean to the parents of Siri. With thi...

Blockchain to improve health United States works with block chains to expedite the exchange of information between hospitals    The connection is growing and with it the exchange of data is rigged. On many occasions, this information has a high degree of privacy. This is the case of hospitals with medical records and that on several occasions their security has been compromised with ransomware attacks. Therefore, the US medical centers are working with blockhain security to increase the security of the information that is shared among all the agents involved in the health world of the country. For years, the Center for Surveillance of Epidemiology and Laboratory Services in the United States has been working on the construction and development of real applications based on blockchain technology to monitor their safety.    This center is responsible for preventing the spread of pandemics throughout its territory and for this they must share data between the different ...

Things you should not do on WhatsApp Beware of sexting, scams, extortion or malware infection. The Office of Security of the Internet, OSI , has published an infographic showing the actions that should not be done in WhatsApp to avoid fraudulent practices or that may compromise the security of the user, advice that has been echoed by the Organization of Consumers and Users and that are developed in the infographic of the OSI: 1. Confidential information Even if you know the recipient of a message, do not send confidential information or you may be compromised. You can never know what the receiver will do with it. The same precaution must be taken with personal contacts and especially with groups, since sometimes we do not know all the members. 2. The origin of the links Beware of following the links we receive without noticing the site to which they point, that is, their origin. They can be a risk since the destination website can infect the device or steal our personal data if the pag...

Apple cuts half of the production of its new iPhones Experts say that only 25% of the phones of the Cupertino brand that are sold in the next 18 months will be of the eighth generation   Apple is not having good luck in its latest bets for this exercise. Last October, the Cupertino giant amazed with the introduction of three new smartphones: iPhone 8 8 Plus and commemorative iPhone X . However, the expectation for this last device is causing sales of the new iPhone 8 are not meeting the expectations of Tim Cook's team. Even the forecasts for the mobile of the tenth anniversary are not being liked by Apple, according to several houses of analysis.   According to GBH Insights, a market research firm based in New York, only 25% of the iPhones sold in the next 18 months will be of the eighth generation. The economic daily US Economic Daily News, collecting statements from a person close to the company's production chain in Taiwan, reveals that Apple has already reduced production ...

Technologists open the war for 360 cameras Samsung and Huawei bet on two innovative gadgets for their new devices    360 Round and EnVizion 360, these are the bets of Samsung and Huawei to dominate the terrain of the cameras in 360 degrees. The weeks in which the arrival of a gadget for mobile phones and which is connected through a USB Type-C are already rumored. This is Huawei's bet that allows you to take pictures with a 360 degree viewing angle directly from your mobile phone just by connecting it with your new EnVizion 360. The announcement has come from Hungary and the images taken with the resolution of the photographs made with Huawei EnVizion 360 will be 5326 x 2688 megapixels and the videos will have a resolution of 1920 x 960 pixels at a speed of 30 frames per second . However, this gadget is not new, since Motorola introduced this accessory not long ago.    Recently, Samsung has also presented its latest commitment in this aspect of the market, but has go...

United States allows the use of the first drug connected Abilify MyCite, a treatment indicated in psychiatric disorders, incorporates a sensor that indicates when it has been ingested by the patient    Smart phones, smart cars, smart cities ... The smart adjective is getting hooked to all devices of daily use, also in the sector of Health. The Food and Drug Administration of the United States has given the green light to Abilify MyCite, a treatment indicated in psychiatric disorders that incorporates a sensor that indicates when it has been ingested by the patient. This sensor allows the monitoring of the intake of medication by patients affected by mental disorders. Its use has been approved for treatment cases of schizophrenia, acute obsessive disorders, mixed disorders associated with bipolarity and as a complement for depressions in adults. "Being able to monitor the intake of prescribed medications for mental illness can be very useful in some patients," said Mitchell Ma...