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There are people who are dedicated to moderating porn in places like chaturbate. And some are demanding for psychological trauma

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If we talk about adult content sites, Chaturbate not only has one of the most names, it is also one of the most popular free webcams platforms around the world. Today It is news Because one of its moderators has sued the company. The reason: suffers post -traumatic stress. The case. Neal Barber was hired by Bayside Support Services and Multi Media LLC, the company that owns Chaturbate, in 2020 as a “customer service risk supervisor” (moderator). His work is to review the content that is published and make sure that he meets legality. On July 22, Barber filed a lawsuit where he assures that he suffers psychological trauma for being exposed to “extreme, violent, graphic and sexually explicit content” daily. Although for now only Barber appears in the complaint, the case opens the door for other moderators hired in the last four years to join. Unprotected. Moderators are the first line of defense to stop the illegal content, which according to demand, in chaturbate often includes “child exploitation, non -consensual, violent, obscene or self -harm content.” Barber claims that chaturbate does not protect the mental health of its employees, something that is sector standard. In statements a 404 averagea chaturbate representative ensures that the company “deeply values the work of its moderators and is committed to supporting the team responsible for this fundamental work,” but does not say how they plan to do it. Consequences. Without any protection, the plaintiff developed posttraumatic stress syndrome and is currently under treatment. Being exposed daily to this content “designed to cause trauma” has resulted in, according to your lawyer, “vivid nightmares, emotional distancing, panic attacks and other symptoms compatible with post -traumatic stress disorder.” And it is not the only one. Years fighting. Content moderators have been complaining about working conditionsespecially of the impact that causes them at the psychological level, and we are not talking about adult content platforms, it occurs in soft content apps that we see every day. One of the first cases It happened in 2017when two employees of the Microsoft online security team reached the limit after watching a video of a rape and subsequent murder. In 2020 A moderator denounced YouTube And in 2021 too It happened in Tiktok. The reasons are repeated: the platforms failed to protect the mental health of their employees. At the moment, Goal faces demands in Kenya And also In Barcelona for the psychological consequences and bad working conditions. Solutions. There are already protections for moderators, but not all companies apply them. In the demand, chaturbate is accused of not including some standard practices such as “content filters, breaks for well -being, specialized advice or support systems among colleagues”. Nor do they comply with other usual practices such as putting videos on grays or silence the videos that are reproduced automatically. According to Checkstepa company dedicated to moderation, AI can also be an effective solution to reduce exposure. In addition to accelerating work, integrating advanced recognition systems, moderators can “focus on more complex cases and minimize exposure to potentially harmful material.” In Xataka | Meta follows the steps of X: we not only work writing for her, now we will also work moderating her

Ferrari had been demanding a toy company for 10 years. Everything for Testarossa to be a car and not a bicycle

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To whom we already comb some gray hair, the name Testarossa transports us directly to the Miami of the late 80s, when Sonny Crockettand Rico Tubbs they jumped from the yachts of the drug traffickers and put themselves at the wheel of a Ferrari Testarossa Blanco in the Mythical corruption in Miami (Miami Vice). In a good part thanks to that series, Ferrari turned the Testarossa in a legend Departure from Pininfarina pencils, causing all the children of the time to sigh to see the unmistakable lateral air intakes (they were known as cheese gradators) of this model. However, in an act of monumental awkwardness by Ferrari, the Italian firm lost commercial control of the Testarossa brand. According The published by Reutersa judgment of the Court of Justice of the European Union (TJUE) has been returned after more than a decade fighting for them. “A toy” that one day set up a V12 The nightmare for Ferrari with the Testarossa brand began just over a decade ago. AUTEC AG, a German toy company, appealed to the expiration of the Testarossa brand registration proving that Ferrari had not used it in any product between 2010 and 2015. The European trademarks They establish that, although trademarks have been registered, they must use them within five years since their registration. This loophole allowed to request the rights of uses on the Testarossa brand before the Office of Intellectual Property of the European Union (EUIPO) that accepted the petition. From that moment, the name of the Ferrari engineering jewel of the 80s, which mounted a 390 hp V12 engine That allowed him to touch the 300 km/h, it could also be an electric bicycle, razor machinillas or a radio -controlled car. In the late 80s, the new Ferrari Testarossa had an approximate price of about 145,000 euros, which is equivalent to about 419,000 today. Today, some of those cars They have come to auction for up to 241,000 euros. Not bad for a car with more than 35 years. The Ferrari Testarossa are eternal According to assured Andrea Scioletti, director of Used Vehicles of Ferrari A Drivemore than 90% of the Ferrari who have left the Maranello factory They are still in circulation. Paradoxically, That reliability It is the one that has saved the Italian manufacturer from losing his most legendary brand. The 7,000 units of the Ferrari Testarossa were manufactured between 1984 and 1996. Since then, that model has only been marketed through second -hand concessionaires or Distributors authorized by Ferrarias well as that of its spare parts. According to The criterion of the Court of Justice of the European Union, those resale of products under that brand can already constitute an effective use of the brand, either directly through its distributors, or authorizing your sale When it comes to third parties. With This sentencethe European Court revoked an earlier ruling of the Regional Court of Düsseldorf that, according to The published In the German Spiegelgranted AUTEC AG the right of use of the Testarossa brand by denoting the argument of second -hand cars and the spare parts that Ferrari wielded. “The use of the brand to guarantee the identity of the origin of the products for which it was registered, by reselling second -hand products, can constitute effective use,” the new sentence details. The cultural imprint that left in the young people of the time the iconography of the series, made years after the end of its production, continue to sell figures at the Testarossa scale graduated by Ferrari. Which has also been considered by the TJCE as a form of use of the brand. In Xataka | The Rocambolesca History of Ferrari 512 TR of Michael Jordan: 15 years lost and has appeared among the ashes of a fire In Xataka | Ferrari will expand its blacklist prohibiting “tuning” and other extravagances: it is not for bad taste, they are just business Image | Ferrari, Wikimedia Commons (Janderk1968)

The Soc Xring O1 is an “impossible” prodigy. This is how Xiaomi has dodged the demanding US restrictions

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Xiaomi’s Soc Xring O1 is making a thunderous noise. His debut at the 15S Pro smartphone, the PAD 7 Ultra tablet and the Watch 4S clock is being preceded by performance figures that They place it ahead of the Snapdragon 8 elite of Qualcomm and Dimensity 9400 of Mediatek. He is not but that we are bad if we are in mind that he is the first flagship designed by Shanghai Xuanjie Technologies, the Xiaomi subsidiary specialized in the design of semiconductors. However, in this article we will not investigate the performance of this chip or compare it with the alternatives proposed by Apple, Qualcomm or MediaTek. What I propose is that we verify how Xiaomi has achieved that the US Industrial and Security Office allows you to manufacture it in N3E (3 Nm) node of TSMC. This Chinese company is not included in the “blacklist” of the US, but this is only part of a story in which Xiaomi has proven to have a huge expertise. TSMC lithography has a leading role in the performance of this chip During the presentation of the soc Xring O1, Xiaomi revealed some details Very interesting about its architecture, and there is no doubt that ‘Xuanjie’ engineers have done a very good job in this area. However, Lei Jun, the founder and general director of this company, He recognized yesterday During the event that its purpose from the beginning was to put to tune a soc produced in the most advanced lithographic node available. And it is that a well -executed architecture and an avant -garde integration technology are the two ingredients that must necessarily intervene in the recipe of a flagship. As I mentioned a few lines above, Xiaomi is not included in the “blacklist” of the US, but this condition is not enough to access the N3E node of TSMC, which is One of the most advanced in operation currently. This last company is from Taiwan, but both the machines of The Dutch company Asml which uses to manufacture its integrated circuits such as wafering processing techniques that they use incorporate American technologies. This is the circumstance that empowers the US when intervening in the ASML and TSMC business. The US government decides who has access to its technologies even if they reside outside its borders In this context, the US Industrial and Security Office of the US Commerce is responsible for controlling the export of US technologies that can be used for military purposes, and therefore, they have the ability to compromise national security and condition US foreign policy. All this means, in short, that the US government decides who has access to its technologies even if they reside outside their borders. Xiaomi’s Soc Xring O1 is on the role as advanced as the best SOCs for smartphones that have Apple, Qualcomm or MediaTek and can be used for a very wide range of applications that go beyond their integration into a mobile phone or a tablet. In The current tension situation They hold the US and China it is surprising that TSMC has been able to manufacture this chip for xiaomi In one of its most advanced lithographic nodes. The interesting thing is that he could because the engineers of ‘Xuanjie’ have calibrated the design of their soc in such an ingenious way that they have managed to throw a very competitive performance without breaching the regulation of the US. In this delicate balance lies the authentic merit of Xiaomi. In TSMC practice it has been able to manufacture it in its N3E node because the socket Xring O1 meets three fundamental conditions. The first of these is that it has been produced in Taiwan and not in any of the countries of Group D: 5, which are the nations to which the US considers a threat, such as Iran, North Korea, Syria, Myanmar, Venezuela, China or Russia. In addition, this SOC incorporates 19,000 million transistors, so it is below the threshold of 30,000 million transistors. If I had exceeded this TSMC limit, I could not have manufactured it for a Chinese company. The interesting thing in this area is that the engineers of ‘Xuanjie’ have managed to set up an architecture capable of delivering very competitive performance and efficiency using a relatively moderate number of transistors. The third and last condition that this Xiaomi chip meets is that it does not live with HBM memories (High Bandwidth Memory), which are the ones that work side by side with the GPUs for artificial intelligence (AI). We only have to have the opportunity to try it thoroughly in one of the Xiaomi devices that are going to bet on it to check if it is really up to the expectations it has generated. Image | Xiaomi More information | Nomad semi In Xataka | China is about to have the ability to make 5 Nm chips, although it faces a difficult solution problem

It is so demanding that there have never been films that opt ​​for it

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If you think that the Oscar They have too many categories, you don’t even know half: there are even more than we see. What happens is that one of them presents such high demands so that the films are nominated that it has always remained deserted. This year, in fact, some main film could opt for it, but one more year will be empty. And behind its existence there is a long history related to Music in cinema. Recycled musicals. The problem of this strange category dates back to the thirties, when the usual custom for the soundtracks of the films was the use not of exclusive original bands, but of previous musical compositions. We have all seen films of the thirties in which ‘The Lake of the Swans’ or other pieces of classical music, and Hollywood sounded realized that it was a problem when in 1938 ‘crazy for music’, a film without original compositions and whose credits did not even appear a composer, received an Oscar for the best soundtrack. Therefore, since 1939 the best original soundtrack was also rewarded, which won the mythical ‘Robin de los Forests’. The musical devastates. The situation changed again with new categories in 1942, when musicals became common currency in cinemas. Frank Churchill and Oliver Wallace won the best musical soundtrack for ‘Dumbo’, beating nine opponents. This category faced the best drama soundtrack, who won the great Bernard Herrmann for ‘The man who sold his soul’. For decades, soundtracks were rewarded according to these two distinctions, and suffering multiple variants (sometimes comedies and dramas were grouped in front of musicals, for example). Adaptations are over. Regardless of this distinction between musical and drama / comedy, in 1963 and until 1985 it went to a distinction between the best original soundtrack and the best adapted soundtrack, to reward the original compositions as it had been done in the thirties. In 1985, the adapted award was definitively dispensed with, and there was only one category, the best original soundtrack. The problem? Disney, always Disney. The Disney monster. Since 1989, with the premiere of ‘La Sernita’, Disney began razing, year after year, in the category of best soundtrack. Between 1989 and 1994, they won four times (in addition to that, ‘The Beauty and the Beast’, ‘Aladdin’ and ‘The Lion King’) and lost only two. To avoid Disney’s domination, in 1995 the category was divided into two: Best drama soundtrack and best comedy or musical soundtrack. The same was not missing: after change, Disney only won once again, with ‘Pocahontas’. The musicals, alone. Then, in 2000 a new distinction arrives: the academy decides that there are still two awards for original sound bands, but now we will have a better soundtrack and better original musical, an own category. To be part of that category, the film must include five original songs, and these must be “substantially reproduced, clearly audible and intelligible, and must contribute to the film’s argument. An arbitrary group of songs that are not essential for the argument will not be admitted.” Many films since 2000 have followed those requirements, but then … Why has the category remained unpublished? The durations, the quantities. To begin with, because the norms require a minimum minute for those soundtracks. For example, two musicals of 1999, ‘Tarzán’ and ‘South Park: larger, longer and without cuts’ had 45 -minute sound bands, insufficient according to the rules. And second and most important: at least ten films must be presented to the category so that it is open. An absolutely excessive amount for the moment that musicals currently live in the cinema. There are not enough musicals. And this is what has maintained the hidden category, despite successes (even within the Oscars) that show that gender lives good times, such as’LA LA LAND‘. We have had films like ‘Chicago’ (which would not have entered the category for proceeding with a theater musical) and this year, ‘WICKED‘. However, ten are too many: ‘The purple color‘,’Charm‘,’The great showman‘,’Vaiana‘… Great musical films, but you should add all of a decade to find enough tickets for one year in the category. According to They affirmed in Next Best Picturethe last time that amount was added was in 1963. Why follow. If the history of the Oscars is also the story of an endless list of dead categories (best dance direction, best black and white photograph …), Why is it officially active? Possibly because Hollywood does not want to miss the opportunity to reward a genre that is pure history of cinema. Maybe we would have to open something hand, allow type musicals to participate Jukebox as ‘Joker: Folie A Deux‘, Broadway adaptations such as’ Wicked’ or ‘Chicago’ or, finally, lower the minimum necessary nominated. The musicals deserve it. In Xataka | ‘The Brutalist’ is so long that it includes an intermediate of 15 minutes. And to the surprise of the director himself, people are delighted

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