Ara Balears in English - AI

Sailing without sailors: the sailboat that wants to connect the Balearic Islands with the Peninsula with AI

ARA Balears — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 08:34:12 +0000

A sailboat less than three meters long, with no one on board and only a one-kilogram bag of salt as cargo. This is the challenge that will set sail from the Sant Antoni Nautical Club and could mark a before and after in maritime navigation. The project, christened Raig FNB, is the work of about twenty students from the Faculty of Nautical Studies of Barcelona at the Polytechnic University of Catalonia.

"AI has no memory and does not store our data"

Marcos Torío — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 20:11:30 +0000

Pep Martorell is a physicist, holds a PhD in Computer Science, and is a partner at the management firm Invivo Partners, where he helps develop artificial intelligence (AI) projects. As an expert in the field, he will participate this Thursday, March 12, in the "Companies with a Human Face" symposium in Palma, to discuss the trends that will shape AI in the next decade.

Artificial fiction

Melcior Comes — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 06:31:05 +0000

Things seem to be moving very fast. In the field of AI, the devastating impact of technology on employment is becoming increasingly apparent, especially among the tech companies' own workers. It's within the companies that are driving AI development that AI itself is usurping the jobs of programmers, who realize that what they were helping to create was a competitor that would do the same thing they do, but much faster, better, and cheaper. I don't know what might happen to these professionals, although we know that certain technical profiles are highly sought after within tech companies. But all the experts are predicting it, some apocalyptic, others fully integrated into a system they now lament not knowing how to rein in: AI will be a revolution that will turn everything upside down.

The UIB develops a revolutionary AI chip with minimal power consumption

ARA Balears — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 11:13:05 +0000

A team of researchers from the Electronic Engineering Group (GEE) at the Balearic Islands Institute of Artificial Intelligence (IAIB) has achieved a significant breakthrough in the field of high-performance intelligent processing. The group has designed and manufactured a chip with an innovative artificial intelligence architecture, specifically designed for energy-critical environments such as IoT devices and edge computing systems. The chip uses stochastic computing to implement a morphological neural network, a technique that enables a high degree of parallelization within the circuit and significantly increases energy efficiency. According to the researchers, "the probabilistic coding used in the chip resembles the way neurons in our brain operate when communicating with each other, and this is key to achieving high energy efficiency," explains Josep Lluís Rosselló, principal investigator of the project.

In a bikini

Melcior Comes — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 06:45:28 +0000

For the past few weeks, social network X has had new interaction options. There's a form of artificial intelligence that can search for information about what's posted there, telling you if it's factual or not, or helping users provide context or question the veracity of what's being said. But the algorithm also has another application: undressing young women.

More than half of the residents in the Balearic Islands use AI to make inquiries about their health.

ARA Balears — Wed, 26 Nov 2025 12:39:27 +0000

According to the study, 70.2% of residents in the Balearic Islands have admitted to using Artificial Intelligence (AI) to make inquiries about their health. The dangers of digital self-diagnosis, from Línea Directa. The figure for the Archipelago is slightly above the state average (66.4%), which rises to 90% in the case of young people between 16 and 19 years old.

Death in peppers

Melcior Comes — Sun, 16 Nov 2025 18:30:45 +0000

There are more and more centenarians. In Catalonia alone, there are more than three thousand; and it is estimated that, in about twenty years, the figure will triple. For some reason, the region of Spain with the fewest people of that age—so 'respectable'—is the Balearic Islands. Since there is no longer so much "calm," say the doctors, we islanders no longer reach a century. But the trend is general in the West; it is increasingly likely to go beyond the average life expectancy, which has been steadily rising for some time. Access to universal healthcare, medical and pharmacological advances, and greater vaccination, hygiene, less tobacco and alcohol abuse, and above all, social and community support, have a decisive impact in helping us live longer and longer.

Prohens presents the Digital Twin: the virtual replica of the Balearic Islands to monitor the territory live

ARA Balears — Sat, 15 Nov 2025 15:57:08 +0000

The President of the Balearic Government, Marga Prohens, announced this Friday the awarding of the contract for the Digital Twin of the Balearic Islands, a project that will create a virtual replica of the archipelago for real-time monitoring. With an investment of 4.6 million euros, this tool will allow for predicting scenarios, managing emergencies, and controlling strategic resources such as water and tourist flows.