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The technology that will allow to save the Tables of Daimiel A project by WWF and Coca-Cola creates tools for saving millions of liters of water per year    Las Tablas de Daimiel is a wetland that spans more than 3,000 hectares of La Mancha. They once occupied ten times more territory, but the overexploitation of the water that nourishes this treasure of biodiversity has left them at a minimum. Cereal crops such as corn and barley, melons, eggplant orchards, onions and garlic and, of course, the vineyard of La Mancha still competes for water from the aquifer 23, a key part of the hydrological system of the Upper Basin of the Guadiana River and essential contribution for the Las Tablas wetland.     To reverse this situation, WWF and Coca-Cola launched the Mission Impossible project, which since 2012 seeks to return this immense bag of water of more than 5,500 square kilometers to a healthy state. Since then, the participating farms have saved around 2,500...

The turnover of the Spanish video game grew by 21% in 2016 The number of development studies has been reduced by 6% in 2017 due, among other factors, to the consolidation phase that the sector is going through    The Spanish video game industry continues to grow and does so in figures that are not insignificant. In 2016, the sector reached 617 million euros , 21% more than in the previous year. However, for the first time since the 'White Book of Spanish Video Game Development 2017' began to be developed in 2014 , the report measuring the state of health of the sector, the number of development studies in operation has decreased. If in 2016 there were 480 companies that, not without hardship, tried to take their video games forward, last year it closed with 450 companies, 6% less . It is not a figure that concerns especially the Spanish Association of Production Companies and Developers of Videogames and Entertainment Software (DEV), which developed the study in collab...

A WhatsApp vulnerability allows you to spy on group conversations The application is renewed with new functions to avoid Telegram competition    Despite the end-to-end encryption implemented in WhatsApp conversations, the application of the Facebook universe has an important security hole, according to a group of cryptography researchers from the Rühr University in Bochum (Germany). These researchers have discovered a problem in WhatsApp through which it is possible to access without permission in a private group of the application through the falsification of the mechanism of verification of invitations from the servers of the app, if these are hacked.    Researchers at Rühr University in Bochum (RUB) have discovered flaws in the encryption process of applications such as Signal, Threema or WhatsApp, which, in the case of the latter, would allow anyone who is able to access their servers to introduce a person in a private group chat without the permission of y...

Half of Spanish Internet users stored their passwords in an insecure way The keys used have a low level of security     123456 or qwerty are the most used passwords in the whole planet and according to Kaspersky Lab, half of Spanish consumers store their passwords in an insecure way. About three out of ten point to it in a notebook and 10% use the same password to access all online services. According to this study, "many" Spanish consumers understand the need to have strong passwords in their accounts. Regarding the platforms that demand safer keys, 65% cited online banking, while 44% did the same with payment applications such as digital wallets and 43% pointed to ecommerce stores.     However, the difficulty of remembering all these secure passwords means that it is "very likely" that they will forget and end up unable to access their accounts. In fact, 40% of Spaniards can not quickly restore those passwords after having lost them, according to ...

Facebook will prioritize the posts of friends on your wall The changes will harm the interests of companies and media in the social network     After having boosted the video, having stimulated the publication of Instant Articles for media and corporations; Facebook takes a 180º turn and changes its famous algorithm to prioritize the publications of contacts and groups in the wall of the social network instead of the announcements of companies, brands and media. The CEO of the company, Mark Zuckerberg, has acknowledged that public corporate content now accounts for most of the platform's space and that the measure will reduce the time dedicated to the social network. Zuckerberg has posted an entry through his personal profile where he announced that Facebook will experience "a great change", which will seek to enhance social relations through its platform. The first modification will occur with the increase of the frequency of appearance in the News Feed of public...

Hackers, now on your Netflix account Security experts warn of a campaign to steal credentials from the streaming platform     Hundreds of Netflix users have received an email in recent days with the subject Notice-Document followed by a series of numbers. An email that impersonates the North American company and that it is a phishing campaign, according to Panda Security. This attack aims to steal the passwords of the users of the streaming platform. They ask users to verify their access data to the company through a link and then validate the payment information.     Once the false email link is clicked, the user is redirected to a fictional Netflix page, which requires the introduction of the platform's email and password, according to Panda Security's experts. The technical director of PandaLabs, Luis Corrons, has warned that the "real risk" is that the attackers resell the stolen accounts "on the black market" and use them to carry out attacks ...

Which rates do the cheapest ADSL offer? A review of the main ADSL offers with the lowest price     Within its quest to attract customers, companies in the telecommunications sector have drawn different user profiles to better target their offers. Among the different classes of customers, we highlight the no frills (without additives), users who seek an internet connection service at the lowest price, without prioritizing the speed of the line. For this profile, the search for adsl is cheaper than fiber optic with the fastest download. This niche market has all the interest of the main operators, since until now they had focused on the other two segments: on the one hand the premium , which are the customers who want the broadest service coverage; and the value for money , which are the users who know their consumption habits perfectly and choose the offer that best suits their needs.      To conquer this market segment consisting of non-frills, the users who val...