Caio Almeida Costa

Este análisis forma parte del boletín semanal de Materia, la sección científica del PAÍS, que se envía todos los sábados. Si quieres aspirar a recibirlo entero, puedes hacerlo. y esto se relaciona.“Déjenme siempre decirles que tengo mucha ilusión por atenderles”. En una lección de pornografía sentimental, una voz sintética pronuncia esta frase para provocar las lágrimas de una mujer que se prestó al experimento del programa El Hormiguero. Esta voz, recreada con inteligencia artificial a partir de una grabación real, simuló la historia del abuelo, fallecido justo al día siguiente de aquel crimen. Algunas familias ya están recuperando sus fallos…

With its streamlined curves and glow-in-the-dark sound system, the silver Lamborghini Huracán Performante was the stuff of teenage fantasy: $350,000 of aerodynamic metals and lightweight upholstery, packed into a taut and powerful body. Ben Armstrong loved it dearly.When he started shopping for a Lamborghini, Mr. Armstrong, a cryptocurrency evangelist with more than one million YouTube subscribers, worried that he’d have to spend months searching. “I think I have to go to Italy to get the Lambo I want,” he texted a business partner. “I don’t want to compromise.” But fate smiled on him. In the fall of 2021, a car…

On a sweltering July evening, the din from thousands of computers mining for Bitcoins pierced the night. Nearby, Matt Brown, a member of the Arkansas legislature, monitored the noise alongside a local magistrate.As the two men investigated complaints about the operation, Mr. Brown said, a security guard for the mine loaded rounds into an AR-15-style assault rifle that had been stored in a car.“He wanted to make sure that we knew he had his gun — that we knew it was loaded,” Mr. Brown, a Republican, said in an interview.The Bitcoin outfit here, 45 minutes north of Little Rock, is…