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WhatsApp will allow you to delete messages sent

The platform prepares a new version for those users who make mistakes or regret the text, photos or videos they send

  The option dreamed by many is beginning to develop. Although WhatsApp has not made official the details of the update or when it will be available, WABetaInfo has confirmed on Twitter a new beta version of the app that allows 'revoke' messages, that is, delete them permanently both on our mobile and on the addressee.

It is not yet clear when this option may be activated, but it seems that they are already working on the beta version, specifically on iOS 2.17.1.869, which some users of the iPhone are already testing and which, as often happens in these evaluation versions, They usually end up in the official application.

WABetaInfo ensures that it is possible that WhatsApp is developing a second parallel app dedicated to companies, so this option could be restricted to the new app.

Of course, those who delete the message will leave a trace because where previously there was text after it will appear the sign 'The message has been deleted'. Whatsapp thus resembles one of the options most valued by Gmail users, which allows you to undo the sending of mails by accident or because you have repented.

Amazon makes its first delivery of packages using a drone

Prime Air's goal is to deliver packages to buyers in "thirty minutes or less

   Amazon e-commerce giant Amazon made its first delivery of packages using a drone, a service it hopes to extend in the future through its Amazon Prime Air project.

Through a video released on Wednesday, the company directed and founded by Jeff Bezos announced that on December 7 he successfully completed his first shipment with a drone in a test that took place in the county of Cambridgeshire (United Kingdom). In that clip you see a client, Richard B., selecting a product on the Amazon website and, shortly after, the image is moved to a company facility, where an unmanned aircraft with the package on board takes off to the address of the buyer.

  According to Amazon's information, this first delivery with a drone lasted 13 minutes since the user acquired the item on the Internet until he arrived at his home. Amazon noted that these drones, which fly at a height of less than 120 meters and can carry packages of up to 2.25 kilos, are completely autonomous in their operation with GPS to go to their destination and return to the base safely.

In addition, Amazon assured that they will use the data and the reaction of the customers of this pilot program in the United Kingdom to expand this service in the future. The goal of Prime Air is to deliver packages to buyers in "thirty minutes or less" thanks to the use of drones. Prime Air currently has development centers in the United States, the United Kingdom, Austria and Israel.

In 2013, Jeff Bezos argued that Amazon would be able, within four or five years, to distribute part of its merchandise using unmanned flying devices.

Yahoo! discover a cyberattack against a billion more users

"This incident is likely to be different than the one the company revealed" last September

  Yahoo! He acknowledged that he was the victim of a cyber attack in 2013 that affected "more than a billion" users, adding to the victims of piracy prior to 500 million accounts.

"Yahoo believes that an unauthorized third party stole information related to more than one billion user accounts in August 2013," the company said in a statement. "This incident is likely to be different than what the company revealed" last September, he added.

The news can be a major blow to the IT company, which is in difficulties and in the process of selling assets of its core operations to the US telecommunications operator Verizon for 4.8 billion dollars.

   The attack revealed in September, which occurred in 2014, affected 500 million accounts and then became the largest computer hacking registered. In addition, he threatened to terminate the agreement with Verizon or with an agreed price reduction.

Among the stolen information would be names, email addresses, telephone numbers, birthday dates and, in some cases, security questions, encrypted or unencrypted; but data of payment cards or recomposed passwords were not included, according to Yahoo !.

Super Mario Run already runs on Apple

The video game will be available in English, Spanish, Japanese, German, French, Portuguese, Italian, Dutch, Russian and several Chinese options

   The most famous Nintendo plumber is already entering the pipes of Apple. Mario Bros has had numerous versions, but all of them have been in devices of the Japanese brand. From this Thursday, Super Mario Run can already take coins on the iPhone and iPad.

For the first time, Nintendo engineers have adapted their most famous game to the giant Cupertino screens. Apple users will have to go through the box to overcome the green Super Mario pipes, the first steps will be free but you will have to pay 10 euros for the complete game.

  Three months after the announcement in the presentation of the iPhone 7, SuperMario already runs through the screens of the iPhone and that is the main difference with respect to the original game. Mario runs autonomously and the player only has to press the screen to jump.

The mythical plumber, on the other hand, if he collects coins, will kill enemies and raise the flag at each end of the stage.

At the moment Super Mario Run will only be available on devices with iOS operating system, although Nintendo has ensured that it will be released for Android during the next year.

Artificial intelligence gradually enters daily life

Mark Zuckerberg leads this business trend that breaks science fiction clichés

     The creator of Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg, plans to install an artificial intelligence system to control his house in the style of the film Jarvis of Iron Man, but even for ordinary people this is no longer a matter of science fiction.

Zuckerberg is perhaps the most reputable figure of those who support this trend, but it is certainly not the only one. "2016 was the year in which we became aware, and consumers were shown the idea of ​​artificial intelligence more oriented towards the mass market," Carolina Milanesi, analyst at Creative Strategies, said in a recent interview.

   Milanesi illustrated this potential market by recalling the device with Echo voice command, devised by Amazon, which includes an assistant called Alexa and who is able to answer questions or give orders to other objects connected in the house.

In the same way is located the specialized company Consumer Intelligence Research Partners (CIRP), because it estimates that there has been "a dramatic increase" this year in the interest of consumers towards these devices, which have sold more than five million of units in the United States since the end of 2014, in a market that rival Google Home joined in the autumn.

Artificial intelligence began to enrich in parallel products that use a public not so restricted, such as the new Google instant messaging known as Allo, which suggests answers, or the proposal of the best meeting point between a driver and his passenger in the application Uber mobile.

The automakers have accelerated the pace to offer for sale autonomous automobiles, whose driving will also be done with artificial intelligence. This technology will also be applied in supermarkets to automatically identify the contents of carts without the need for ATMs, a novelty recently introduced by Amazon.

«Smart machines will be ubiquitous»

Alexandre Alahi, a researcher in artificial intelligence laboratories at Stanford University, anticipates a future "in which intelligent machines will be omnipresent in our daily lives, we will have robots in the houses, in the streets with autonomous cars, but also in stations, hospitals and the city in general ", to help blind people who move. "Our homes, public spaces will become smart to increase our security, our health, our productivity, etc.," explained Alahi.

Sensor systems, capable of seeing and learning like humans thanks to algorithms and a computer calculation capacity that analyzes huge amounts of data very quickly, could, for example, replace the supervision of a doctor 24 hours a day in rooms of hospitals and allow older people to remain in their homes, or reduce congestion at service stations during peak hours.

The IBM Watson computer system currently helps genomic medicine specialists accelerate DNA analysis and determine personalized treatments for cancer patients. Even Google presented at the end of November an algorithm that detects signs of diabetic retinopathy in the eyes. Both Facebook and Microsoft this year presented systems "capable of looking" at the images and describing content for the blind.

AlphaGo wins games for world champions

The machines conquered in March the complex game of oriental origin 'go', in which qualities normally restricted to humans, such as intuition and creativity, are considered essential. The algorithms of AlphaGo, created by a subsidiary of Google, won 4-1 to the champion of the South Korean world.

Huge progress has been made with "results close to human performance" with the recognition of the content of the images, but there is still a lot of work to develop in parallel "a social intelligence", clarifies Alexandre Alahi, who works on this issue in the field of systems Of transport.

Thus, an autonomous car circulates without problem in a very structured city like Mountain View, in Santa Clara, California, where Google has its headquarters, but "can not do the Arc de Triomphe tour" in Paris, where the climate is less controlled and the displacements of other vehicles, less predictable.

"There are situations where technology can not effectively read the behavior of people," explained the researcher, then we must find means to understand and respond to social conversations to "coexist with humans within the same spaces."

Artificial intelligence is a source of inspiration but also of fear, as reflected in a series of initiatives by researchers and companies that aim to ensure that the impact is positive for society and want to avoid detours towards the protagonists of the Terminator saga.

"If you think about it now, it frightens you, but it's still going to be years" for technology to reach its full potential, which will be incorporated into daily life gradually, in stages, relativized Milanesi.

Uber chooses Madrid to launch its service with Tesla

UberOne is the new service with Elon Musk that will debut on December 22

  Uber has chosen Madrid as the first city in the world to deploy its electric service. With this choice, the clients of the transport service app will be able to walk through Madrid streets uploaded in a Tesla Model S as of December 22.

"UberONE is one more step towards a more sustainable Madrid, Uber wants to contribute to the definitive boost of the electric vehicle and Madrid, with its determined commitment to new transportation alternatives, is the ideal city to launch this pioneering service," says Carlos Lloret, general manager of Uber in Spain.

  With UberOne, users can request one of the electric vehicles of the Elon Musk company in exchange for 1.5 euros per kilometer or 45 cents per minute. The Uber app is available for iOS, Android, Blackberry 7 and Windows Phone.

"UberONE was born as a response to the growing demand of Madrid companies for mobility services that allow them to reduce their ecological footprint," the technology company said in a statement.

This morning, the heads of the North American company in Madrid presented their sustainable mobility plan in the capital together with the representatives of the municipality in Madrid City Council.

During the trips, customers can use a Microsoft Surface Pro 4 device to read the press, check their email or connect to their social networks during their journey. Or listen to music through your Spotify account.

"All UberONE drivers will operate under license and Uber checks that they are registered in the autonomous regime or constituted as a company, their criminal records, the vehicle's technical file and the validity of their commercial insurance," Uber points out.

Palo in the United States

New setback for Uber's future plans and in this case, the United States. The Californian authorities have asked the technologist to urgently remove all their vehicles without a driver from their streets, lacking the necessary permits.

"If Uber had obtained a permit to test autonomous vehicles before today, the launch of the company would have been admissible," says Brian G. Soublet, deputy director of the California Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV).

Since this week, Volvo XC90 without an Uber driver has been circulating the streets of San Francisco after the transport company expanded its autonomous driving program.

Mobiles and USB memories will pay the new digital canon

Government and management entities discuss a reformulation of the rate to be approved urgently

   Change of draft in the digital canon, which may release a partially unpublished model that would support the rate on the sale of mobiles and USB sticks. The government and the management entities are discussing the pact of a new model that would pass the rate to compensate the creators for private copies of their work in the price of mobile phones and other media and recording devices. This was advanced Thursday by sources familiar with an agreement "far from being closed," according to sources from the Ministry of Culture.

"There is a working document but we are in an initial phase of the discussion and we must make it clear that this is not a return to previous formulations of the digital canon without juridical fit", point from Culture. "We must continue negotiating with the sector and the other ministries involved and many changes could still be made," they insist.

   It would be, however, a system similar to the one that was in force until 2011, although with variations. The money to compensate the authors would come out of the sale price of the electronic supports or recording devices of contents subject to intellectual property, this is recordable CDs, mobile phones, or USB memory.

The text would include criteria to establish the amount to be paid, such as the intensity of use of the devices and supports, their storage capacity, the impact of the copy on the sale of the original work or the digital or analogical nature of the reproduction. It says that there is no obligation of compensation when the damage to the author is minimal. But the big question is in the figure that the creators would perceive and that several studies place between 50 and 80 million euros.

According to the formula under discussion, companies and public administrations would be exempt from the fee and natural and legal persons would have the option of requesting reimbursement if they show that the copies they make have professional purposes. This is established in a draft of the royal decree "which is only a document of work", insists Culture.

The regulations would establish the possibility of modifying tariffs and criteria according to changes in the digital environment and technologies. It establishes another exemption for «those who have the authorization to carry out the corresponding reproduction of works, artistic performances, phonograms or videograms, as appropriate, in the exercise of their activity».

The new and necessary canon is expected to enter into force at the beginning of 2017, but it will be difficult since the reports of the ministries involved and the final approval of the Council of Ministers are necessary. When the final text of the Royal Decree is approved, it will have to be developed through a ministerial order.

Until now the canon was paid through the General State Budgets, as imposed by the reform approved by the Government in December 2011. A measure that was annulled in November by the Supreme Court, after the Court of Justice of the Union European Commission failed in June to contravene Community regulations.

The annulment caused a legal vacuum that makes the establishment of a new valid system urgent. Established in 1996, the canon was updated to the digital environment in 2006 by the socialist government, but suffered repeated judicial setbacks. In 2011 the Provincial Court of Barcelona established that only physical and non-legal persons should pay it, so that the National Court annulled the ministerial order regulating its amounts. The Executive of the PP to introduce a new model, driven by the then Secretary of State for Culture, José María Lassalle, and who knocked down in June the Court of Justice of the EU, and the Supreme, a month ago.