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

122 published news

December 2024

  1. 19 December
  2. This Is How Many Chips Microsoft, Meta, and Tesla Purchased From Nvidia in 2024. It’s Totally Nuts
  3. 17 December
  4. I’ve Been Using ChatGPT Search as My Default Search Engine Thanks to a Chrome Extension. Google Has a Big Problem
  5. 11 December
  6. An AI Company Is Making Waves in San Francisco With a Striking Message: ‘Stop Hiring Humans’
  7. 10 December
  8. Mark Zuckerberg Has a New Proclamation: Smart Glasses Will Replace Smartphones by 2030
  9. 09 December
  10. The Raspberry Pi 500, Raspberry’s Famous Computer-in-a-Keyboard, Is Now Available. It Comes With a Portable Monitor
  11. 05 December
  12. Amazon Kindle Colorsoft Review: Color is Welcome, but the Other Features Matter More
  13. 03 December
  14. After the Presidential Election, Elon Musk Becomes Donald Trump’s 'First Buddy,' Making Sam Altman Persona Non Grata
  15. Pat Gelsinger’s Resignation Is a Turning Point for Intel. Can the Company Navigate Its Biggest Crisis in History?
  16. 02 December
  17. After Years of Stagnation, China Is Closing the Gap in the AI Race. It Hasn’t Stopped Developing Advanced Models, but With a Socialist Twist

November 2024

  1. 27 November
  2. Elon Musk Wants to Reduce Federal Spending With the Help of Tech Bros, Not Economists
  3. 25 November
  4. Amazon Remains the Biggest Mystery in the AI Race: After Investing $8 Billion, It Still Has No Product to Show
  5. 22 November
  6. China Is Making Rapid Strides in the AI Race: It’s Just Unveiled a Chatbot That Rivals OpenAI’s o1 ‘Reasoning’ Abilities
  7. Elon Musk Raises Another $5 Billion for xAI. Nobody Knows What It’s For
  8. 19 November
  9. There’s Something Surprising Happening With Podcasts. People Aren’t Just Listening to Them, They’re Watching Them
  10. 15 November
  11. What Is ‘Technological Singularity,’ and Why Does Sam Altman Believe It Might Arrive by 2025?
  12. 09 November
  13. The World Is Still Producing a Significant Amount of Wine. The Problem: Not Enough People Are Consuming It
  14. 08 November
  15. China Is Using Meta’s AI Technology for Military Purposes, Prompting the Company to Draw a Line in the Sand
  16. 07 November
  17. The Most Mysterious Song on the Internet Is No Longer a Mystery. This Is the Group That Recorded It
  18. 06 November
  19. Google Saw This Couple’s Website as Competition and Buried It. It Cost the Company $2.5 Billion
  20. Bitcoin Briefly Reaches an All-Time High Amid a Crypto Boom. The Reason: Trump
  21. 05 November
  22. The USB-C Standard Aimed to Address Cable Clutter. The Situation Is Worse Than Ever

October 2024

  1. 31 October
  2. Apple Has a New Offering for Those Who Don’t Switch Off Their Computers: The M4 Mac Mini
  3. 24 October
  4. Google Has a Tool for Tagging and Detecting AI-Generated Text. It’s a Nice Concept, but There’s Still a Problem With It
  5. 23 October
  6. A Documentary Claimed Canadian Developer Peter Todd Was Satoshi Nakamoto, the Creator of Bitcoin. Now, He’s Gone Missing
  7. 21 October
  8. Mira Murati’s New AI Startup Is Reportedly Set to Raise $100 Million. The Big Question: Why?
  9. 19 October
  10. AI Chatbots Talk as if They’re Capable of Reasoning, It’s a Big Lie
  11. 18 October
  12. Trouble in Partnership Paradise: Microsoft and OpenAI Are Starting to Get Tired of One Another
  13. 17 October
  14. Amazon, Google, and Microsoft Are Investing in Nuclear Power to Secure the Future of AI. It’s Not Going to Be Easy
  15. Chinese Youth Aren’t Very Different From the Rest of Generation Z: They Don’t Know What It's Like to Search on Baidu and Google
  16. 11 October
  17. Defining What Is Open Source AI Is Proving to Be a Nightmare, and Purists Are Refusing to Budge
  18. 10 October
  19. Years Ago, Apple Went Through a Nightmare When an iPhone 4 Was Left at a Bar. Now, History Seems to Be Repeating With the Alleged MacBook Pro M4
  20. 09 October
  21. HBO Believes That Canadian Developer Peter Todd Is the Creator of Bitcoin. He Says the Idea Is Bonkers
  22. 08 October
  23. Hurricane Helene Is Causing Serious Damage. However, Most of the Photos of its Destruction on the Internet Are AI-Generated
  24. 07 October
  25. Google Used to Dominate Online Advertising. Now, That’s Changing, and It’s Great News
  26. 06 October
  27. Apple and Microsoft Can’t Stop Bragging About Their AI. But They’re Taking So Long to Deploy It That Waiting for It Is Becoming Exasperating
  28. 04 October
  29. Microsoft Has Done Something Increasingly Rare and Wonderful: It’s Not Forcing You to Subscribe to Office 2024. Instead, It’s Letting You Buy It
  30. 03 October
  31. Microsoft Abandons HoloLens, Essentially Telling Meta and Apple That Investing in AR Is a Mistake
  32. 02 October
  33. Nvidia Already Rules the AI Hardware Market. With the Launch of Its Own Open-Source LLM, It’s Now Going After GPT-4 and Llama
  34. 01 October
  35. Oura Is Reaping the Benefits of Its Success. It’s Reportedly Preparing to Win the Smart Ring War With an New Device

September 2024

  1. 28 September
  2. Meta Wants to Integrate Llama Into Users’ Smartphones, But It Won’t Be Easy. Just Look at What Happened With Pre-installed Web Browsers
  3. 27 September
  4. With More Than a Million Models to Try Out, Hugging Face Is Heaven on Earth for AI Enthusiasts
  5. 26 September
  6. Mira Murati’s Resignation Is Further Evidence That Something Isn’t Working at OpenAI. It Might Be Sam Altman Himself
  7. Mira Murati Leaves OpenAI. The AI Company Loses One of the People Who Helped Create ChatGPT
  8. 25 September
  9. Major Updates in Google Maps and Google Earth Offer Improved Maps and Time Traveling Features
  10. Kaspersky Installs a New Antivirus Software on Its Users’ Computers Without Warning
  11. The New Nothing Ear (Open) Earbuds Fit Your Ear and Focus on Something Different: Keeping You Aware of Your Surroundings
  12. 24 September
  13. X’s Ban in Brazil May Be Ending Soon. Elon Musk Relents and Will Now Comply With the Country’s Demands
  14. 23 September
  15. Jony Ive Confirms He’s Working With OpenAI on AI Hardware, but Details Are Scarce
  16. 20 September
  17. OpenAI Is Apparently Paying Homage to George Lucas and Star Wars in Its Latest Investment Round. Here’s What We Know
  18. 18 September
  19. Snap’s New Spectacles Are Subscription AR Glasses. Their Target Audience: Developers
  20. 17 September
  21. Larry Ellison Believes That ‘Big Brother’ and Mass Video Surveillance With AI Are Imminent. It’s a Good Thing, He Says
  22. 16 September
  23. This USB Flash Drive Is Nearly Indestructible and Can Remain Functional for 200 Years. Unfortunately, You Can Barely Store Anything on It
  24. 13 September
  25. o1 Doesn’t ‘Reason’ and Isn’t an AGI, but It Does Address the Major Issue With Chatbots: Hallucinations
  26. 12 September
  27. The Navy Found a Starlink Antenna on a Battleship. This Discovery Proved Key in the ‘STINKY' Scandal, Which Ended in a Court Martial
  28. OpenAI Is Planning to Raise $6.5 Billion. This Could Make It as Big as Disney and Uber
  29. 11 September
  30. There’s an EU Version of the iPhone 16 and Another for the Rest of the World. With This Distinction, the EU Loses Out
  31. 09 September
  32. AI Finally Arrives on iPhones and Macs Next Month. Apple Intelligence Is All About Privacy (and Not Screwing Up)
  33. New iPhone 16 and iPhone 16 Plus: More Power and a New Camera Button That Expands Photographic Options
  34. Telegram Is More Than a Messaging App. It’s Become the New Deep Web
  35. 06 September
  36. Telegram Hit by Wave of Change Following CEO’s Arrest. The Platform Is Considering Moderating Chats It Previously Left Untouched
  37. 05 September
  38. A Woman Used an AirTag to Check Whether Her Plastic Was Actually Being Recycled. The Answer, for Now, Is No
  39. 04 September
  40. Mechanical Keyboards Are Facing Tough Competition From a New Arrival: Hall Effect Keyboards
  41. 03 September
  42. 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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