Javier Pastor

Javier Pastor

Senior Writer . At Xataka On since

Computer scientist turned tech journalist. I've written about almost everything related to technology, but I specialize in hardware, operating systems and cryptocurrencies. I like writing about tech so much that I do it both for Xataka and Incognitosis, my personal blog. LinkedIN

72 published news

September 2024

  1. 17 September
  2. Larry Ellison Believes That ‘Big Brother’ and Mass Video Surveillance With AI Are Imminent. It’s a Good Thing, He Says
  3. 16 September
  4. This USB Flash Drive Is Nearly Indestructible and Can Remain Functional for 200 Years. Unfortunately, You Can Barely Store Anything on It
  5. 13 September
  6. o1 Doesn’t ‘Reason’ and Isn’t an AGI, but It Does Address the Major Issue With Chatbots: Hallucinations
  7. 12 September
  8. The Navy Found a Starlink Antenna on a Battleship. This Discovery Proved Key in the ‘STINKY' Scandal, Which Ended in a Court Martial
  9. OpenAI Is Planning to Raise $6.5 Billion. This Could Make It as Big as Disney and Uber
  10. 11 September
  11. There’s an EU Version of the iPhone 16 and Another for the Rest of the World. With This Distinction, the EU Loses Out
  12. 09 September
  13. AI Finally Arrives on iPhones and Macs Next Month. Apple Intelligence Is All About Privacy (and Not Screwing Up)
  14. New iPhone 16 and iPhone 16 Plus: More Power and a New Camera Button That Expands Photographic Options
  15. Telegram Is More Than a Messaging App. It’s Become the New Deep Web
  16. 06 September
  17. Telegram Hit by Wave of Change Following CEO’s Arrest. The Platform Is Considering Moderating Chats It Previously Left Untouched
  18. 05 September
  19. A Woman Used an AirTag to Check Whether Her Plastic Was Actually Being Recycled. The Answer, for Now, Is No
  20. 04 September
  21. Mechanical Keyboards Are Facing Tough Competition From a New Arrival: Hall Effect Keyboards
  22. 03 September
  23. Microsoft Seemed to Be Doing Everything Right With Xbox and Game Pass. Now Things Are Going Very Wrong

August 2024

  1. 30 August
  2. The iPhone 16 Will Reportedly Have a DSLR Button, a Feature That Hasn’t Really Worked in Phones So Far
  3. 29 August
  4. Meta Is Reportedly Developing a Competitor to the Vision Pro. It’ll Be Ultracompact and Ultralight, but Won’t Be Available for Several Years
  5. OpenAI Is Gearing Up for Another Investment Round That Aims to Turn It Into a $100 Billion Startup
  6. 28 August
  7. We Still Have No Idea What Constitutes ‘Open Source AI,’ But That’s About to Change
  8. 27 August
  9. It Looks Like the Control Panel Is Staying With Us for Now: Microsoft Clarifies the Status of the Tool

July 2024

  1. 05 July
  2. AI Models Are Being Trained With Photos of Children. And It Doesn’t Matter if Parents Try to Avoid It
  3. 04 July
  4. Against All Odds, Threads Has Turned Into a Serious Rival for X, With 175 Million Monthly Active Users and Counting
  5. We Now Know How Many Google Searches End Up With Users Staying on Google. Too Many
  6. The ChatGPT Client for Mac Is the Latest Example of Why We Need More Security in AI
  7. 03 July
  8. A 20 TB SSD for $300 Is Possible: Manufacturers Believe They Can Make One by 2027
  9. Google Is Reportedly Getting Ready to Release Its Own Version of Microsoft's Recall. At First Glance, I Prefer Google
  10. 01 July
  11. NASA Detected an Asteroid the Size of One of the Giza Pyramids Just Two Weeks Before It Passed 'Close to' Earth

June 2024

  1. 27 June
  2. YouTube Sees a Future Where AI Will Clone Current Music, But Convincing Record Companies Won’t Be Easy
  3. 26 June
  4. The EU’s Regulatory Obsession Is Creating a World Where AI Will Advance at Two Speeds—and Europe Will End Up Losing
  5. Microsoft Is Reverting to Its Old Ways: It's Forcing Users to Use OneDrive Installing Windows 11
  6. Say Goodbye to Google’s Search Infinite Scroll. Google Assures Users That Removing It Is a Major Improvement
  7. 24 June
  8. Microsoft Doesn’t Like The Fact That Users Use Local Accounts in Windows 11. So, It Removed the Instructions for Setting Them Up
  9. Google Maps Has Been Tracking Our Movements for Years. Now, That Data Will Be More Accessible to Us Than Ever
  10. ChatGPT and Its Rivals Are Boring and Dull. Making Them Funny Isn't Going to Be Easy
  11. 21 June
  12. ChatGPT Created a Script for a Movie About Creativity in Cinema. A Movie Theater Is Refusing to Screen It
  13. 20 June
  14. Microsoft Wanted to Sell Us a New Era of PCs With AI. So Far, It Hasn't Delivered on That Front, But It Has on Everything Else
  15. Ilya Sutskever's New AI Company Has a Clear Goal: To Develop a Superintelligence With 'Nuclear'-Level Safety
  16. 19 June
  17. Lenovo’s New Copilot+ Laptops Showcase the Future of the PC: Efficiency Shines, With AI Promising to Do the Same
  18. 14 June
  19. Amazon Wanted to Turn Alexa into ChatGPT’s Nemesis, But the Project Is in Chaos
  20. Big Tech Is Realizing Something: Their AI Can’t Keep Messing Up on This Scale
  21. 13 June
  22. The ‘Compact’ Version of Stable Diffusion 3 Is Here. And It’s Generating Monstrous Human Bodies
  23. Microsoft’s Agreement With OpenAI Was Only the First Step. What It (Probably) Wants Is to Get Rid of the AI Company
  24. 12 June
  25. Apple Intelligence Is the Perfect Excuse to Buy More iPhones, a Crucial Element to the Company's Future
  26. 11 June
  27. Apple Intelligence: Apple’s Ambitious Bid to Finally Integrate AI Across Its Ecosystem
  28. 06 June
  29. AI Services Are Everywhere, Ushering in the Return of Subscription Fatigue
  30. 05 June
  31. Elon Musk Diverted Thousands of NVIDIA GPUs From Tesla to X. His Argument: They Would Have Collected Dust at Tesla
  32. Microsoft’s ‘Co-Pilots’ Penetrate Everything Except Phones. Here's A Crazy Idea: Revive the Windows Phone
  33. 04 June
  34. Cohere Is Canada's Version of OpenAI for Business. It Does the Exact Opposite of Sam Altman
  35. 03 June
  36. 8BitDo’s New Retro Keyboard Pays Tribute to an All-Time Classic: the IBM Model M
  37. NVIDIA Presents Project G-Assist: a Chatbot That Can Help You Defeat the Final Boss in Video Games
  38. 02 June
  39. I’ve Been Using a 5K Monitor for Years. I Still Don’t Understand How the Industry Hasn’t Made Them Mainstream
  40. 01 June
  41. Researchers Successfully Cracked the Password on an Old Crypto-Wallet. Their Reward: $3 Million

May 2024

  1. 31 May
  2. How to ‘Dumb Down’ Your Phone: These Apps Want You to Be Less Glued to Its Small Screen
  3. 30 May
  4. OpenAI Has a Clear Plan on How to Make ChatGPT Plus Succeed: Using ChatGPT as a Hook
  5. 29 May
  6. A Google Search Leak Allegedly Reveals Many of Its Algorithm’s Secrets. It's Digital Gold for SEO Experts
  7. 28 May
  8. Neuralink’s ‘Impossible’ Challenge Isn't a Brain Implant. It's a ‘Pied Piper’ and MP3 Players
  9. Google’s Search Engine Is Undergoing Its Most Important Revolution Ever. So Far, It’s Been a Disaster
  10. 24 May
  11. Meta AI Chief Yann LeCun Is Sure About One Thing: LLMs like ChatGPT Won’t Replicate Human Intelligence
  12. My Name Is 'Savan,' Not 'Satan.' Autocorrect's Obsession With Changing Names Is Causing a Slew of Controversy
  13. Google’s AI Suggested Gluing Cheese to Your Pizza. Its Source Is a Reddit Comment From 11 Years Ago
  14. 23 May
  15. Windows’ Photographic Memory Feature, Recall, Wants You to Trust Microsoft More Than Any Other Company
  16. After Years of Reading Books on My Phone, Here Are Some Apps and Tips on How to Get Started
  17. The Rise of Digital Decay: How 38% of the Websites That Existed in 2013 Have Vanished From the Internet
  18. 21 May
  19. Recall, Windows’ New Star Feature, Is ‘Like Having a Photographic Memory’ in Your PC
  20. 18 May
  21. We Thought VPNs Were Unhackable, But It Looks Like Hackers Can Spy on Them While You're Connected
  22. 17 May
  23. Goodbye ‘Twitter.com.' Hello ‘X.com.’ Domain Change Marks New Chapter in Elon Musk’s Master Plan (and Obsession)
  24. Passkeys Promised a Future Without Passwords, But They're Turning Our Present Into a Walled Garden
  25. 16 May
  26. Microsoft Already Knows How to Conquer the AI World: Money. It's Spent Nearly $30 Billion (So Far)
  27. 15 May
  28. Google's Project Astra Is Its Own Version of 'Her.' It's a Virtual Assistant You Can Chat With Using AR Glasses
  29. 09 May
  30. Apple Crushed Old School Tech With an iPad in New Ad. People Are Pissed
  31. Spies Also Wanted to Use ChatGPT. Microsoft Created One for Them
  32. 08 May
  33. Deepfakes From Met Gala Prove We Have a Problem. Even Katy Perry’s Mom Thought They Were Real
  34. Apple Debuts M4 Chip a Year Earlier Than Expected. The Culprit Is, Of Course, AI

April 2024

  1. 23 April
  2. Apple iMac M3 (2023) Review: Same Packaging, More Power, and Better for Gaming
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