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Ten years ago, this man introduced radical changes in ‘Dungeons & Dragons’. Thanks to them, it is now a millionaire fever

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‘Dungoons & Dragons’ is the Role game par excellenceand his reign has not turned off the least since 1974, when his most primitive version, still very little affordable because of his rules system, He saw the light. He still had decades ahead and much to evolve to become the accessible entertainment that moves millions of devotees from fantasy of all the world that is today. In the Comic-with Malaga We have had the opportunity to listen to Jeremy Crawford, one of the architects of the fifth edition of the game. It is considered the most modern and affordable: its way of simplifying the classic rules without losing all the richness and complexity that had made ‘D&D This was told by Crawford, a recognized game enthusiast who is also a precise analyst of everything that is attractive to the franchise. The fifth edition broke sales records from its departure, with 3 million copies sold (“It is the first edition of D&D whose sales have not stopped increasing”), But what factors contributed to this unprecedented success? A good part of this is attributed to the explosion of online retransmissions of items, As we count at the time: “Thanks to the fundamental role of Dimension 20 And many other live games programs, now just enter YouTube, Twitch or other services to see how the game is. You can see how fun it is. You can see that it is not as intimidating as it might seem by the extensive regulation “ An important part of this growth is also due to the “analog” part of that diffusion: players shared their enthusiasm for the game with friends and family, inviting them to try it. This made, despite having half a century old, the game was new to many people: “Much of what happened is that you started telling your friends. You started inviting your family,” says Crawford. This emotional connection contributed to the sustained increase in sales, a phenomenon that unusual in previous editions, which normally experienced a decrease after launch. Recommended readings However, all this does not start from the void. There are some previous and foundational elements that had to study before getting to work. Crawford told us that his team “not only studied the previous editions, but that we immerse ourselves in the books that inspired the original games (Elric’s novels, ‘The Lord of the Rings0, HP Lovecraft and Conan stories …) to understand firsthand on what the original D&D creators were based.” Much of that material was “included in the list of readings that Gary Gygax provided in the first edition of the Dungeon Master guide” To this is added that Crawford feels “a deep love for ancient mythology and world history.” This personal interest, together with their trips through Europe and the reading of ancient books about occultism and history, constitutes “a large part of my inspiration when working in any fantastic world.” The objective is to understand “how people thought in the past and then transfer that to the worlds we create, the adventures we design, and incorporate part of that inspiration.” This approach guarantees a large range of options for players, by “resorting to as many sources of inspiration as possible.” Finally, Crawford detailed some steps that had followed to determine which elements of ‘d & d’ conserve and which to let them evolve during the design of the fifth edition: one of the things is “play a lot. There is nothing to play your own game as a designer. And in the case of ‘D & D’, also being the Dungeon Master. “And there is the key to the contagious enthusiasm that Crawford communicated to the audience. Crawford told the public that “any of you who is a game director in ‘D&D’ or other role -playing game, is a game designer. Because being a game designer means creating experiences for other people to enjoy, which is exactly what a master’s degree does.” And he concluded: “Every time someone asks me: ‘What should I do to be a game designer?’ I often say that you have to be a game director, because it is experienced in real time how people respond to what one has created. And also how people usually do what they want in response to what one has created” And that was a bit the summary of what Crawford injected to the fifth edition: all the attendees were designers of the game because to start, the designers of the game were also players. That was the key to an impulse for ‘Dungoons & Dragons’ in its fifth edition and today survives. Header | Gian-Luca Riner in Unspash In Xataka | To play Dungoons & Dragons you just needed ball, paper and dice. Now a course of 2,000 dollars wants to teach you better

The man who crossed Africa from coast to coast for the first time in a 4×4

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In 1884, The diverse African continent It was distributed among the European powers as if it were a cake. The Berlin Conference regulated the colonization of Africa and established which country stayed with each portion. Germany stayed with a good piece of the continent and, although it lost everything after the World War Ithere is something that no one can snatch them: having been the first to demonstrate the reliability of the first cars “4×4”. The feat? Simple: Crossing Africa from coast to coast on a trip of about 10,000 kilometers through unknown territories for the car. The adventure begins. The protagonist of this story is called Paul Graetz. He was a German officer who, between 1902 and 1904, served as a lieutenant in German Eastern Africa. After a brief return to his homeland, 1907 returned to Africa with a goal: to find a route between what was German and Africa Africa of the Southwest German (which is currently Tanzania and Namibia) to establish a motorized connection. A direct route between the two territories (each in a different coast) would allow a better economic development and, therefore, a benefit for those German regions. Thus, he got to work to devise a route that was from Dar-Es-Salam (Tanzania) to Swakopmund (Namibia). It would not be easy, since it would be necessary to cross mountains, deserts, jungles, savannas and rivers in an unexplored territory for the car. All this, obviously, without having roads or roads. Basically, he would make his way. The problem was, evidently, the car itself. The car. It was the first challenge of the trip because, if it would be something complicated for the best 4×4 current, for a great -grandfather of 1907, imagine. That is why he did not use a conventional car, but one made “custom”. Graetz began to contact several companies and-heard air-it was the Süddeutsche Automobil-Fabrik Gaggenau who accepted the challenge. They only existed from 1905 to 1910 and subsequently became part of Benz & Cie (which, in turn, became Daimler-Benz Agbetter known as Mercedes-Benz), and what they did was to modify one of their numerous models for the conditions it would find in Africa. Chassis made to measure with an elevation of 35 centimeters on the standard of the time to circulate through complicated territories. The elevation was achieved with wooden blocks. A four -cylinder engine and a power of 35 hp. Two gas tanks for long marches: one 250 liters in the rear and another forward with another 125/145 liters. “Mortital” and reinforced body to transport heavy loads. Wooden wheels, eye, with a diameter of 1,120 mm and a width of 120 mm. The wood for certain components may seem a barrabasada, but it was the technology of the time. It had a large storage capacity due to size, the interior could be transformed into a bedroom (with mosquito net and everything) and had oil lamps to drive in the dark. Issues. We cannot say that Süddeutsche Automobil-Fabrik Gaggenau did not give Gracez a good ‘car’, but the problems would soon appear. The expedition (basically, Graetz) departed on August 10, 1907. The tests for the car had been done in Germany, so both the driver and the vehicle would enter ‘Terra Incognita’. The rain was a problem and forced to improvise a metal reinforcement (the first wheels with chain), remained stuck in dunes, gasoline evaporated and even had to wear the car by boat during a section of Lake Tanganika. The worst was mechanics. The one of Graetz the only one in colonial Germany and a rare Avis in thousands of kilometers around the engine so, when the engine had a breakdown, he was forced to wait three months for the spare parts to arrive. In addition, there were no mechanics, so they learned on the march to repair it. It is believed that it has a C15 “Gut Gemacht, Graetz”As it may be, about 630 days later and With about 10,000 kilometers on the counterthe German explorer and his car managed to reach Swakopmund. It was on May 1, 1909 and Kaisewr Guillermo II himself congratulated him with a telegram that was not too effusive. “Gut Gemacht, Graetz”, which becomes a “good job, Graetz.” In that congratulation I should have included the hundreds of collaborators that the explorer had during his journey, but we already know how these things are going. History. The feat was followed by the press and was seen as an example of the industrial and power advances of the new engines and vehicles against nature. Currently, that first 4×4, that deeply modified vehicle that allowed an adventurer to cross Africa from coast to coast more than a century ago, is a piece of a museum and a reminder that, perhaps, was the first Road Trip of history. The bug of exploration was still within Graetz and only one year later, in 1911, he launched A second expedition with the aim of traveling the Bangweulusee river from Mozambique to the Atlantic in a motor boat of more than eight meters. On this occasion, he took a filmmaker with him that he captured some images, but after an attack of a buffalo, the filmmaker died and Graetz was seriously injured. The images were considered ‘Lost Media’ for almost a century, but in 2007 they were found in the basement of the Gracez’s own house, and part are the ones you can see just about this paragraph. It is clear that explorer is born, it is not done, and since everything has to be capitalized, There are tours to emulate the route of the German explorer. Images | Mercedes-Benz, Paul Graetz In Xatala | The US needed to confuse the Nazis in World War II. So it deployed airplanes and lie tanks

A man paid $ 23 for a PC box at an auction. Discovered inside a 24 -core CPU and an RTX 3080 ti

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Online auctions are full of unexpected opportunities, but few stories surprise as much as this. Imagine to enter a local second -hand platform with the idea of ​​getting a simple computer box. You don’t look for anything spectacular, Only a wide chassis for future projectssomething functional and cheap. You make a low, almost symbolic bid, and you don’t expect more than a basic article wrapped in cardboard. However, when picking it up, something does not fit: it weighs more than expected, it sounds different, and what seemed like a routine purchase becomes the beginning of an anecdote that sweeps Reddit. The story was known through Redditwhere the buyer published the discovery in R/PcMasterrace. According to images published by “Llamasusgame”, the box was not empty or contained old pieces, but a complete high -end computer. In his photos you can see a TRX40 aorus pro wifi motherboard with an AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3960X processor of 24 cores, accompanied by 256 GB of RAM and a graphics card NVIDIA GEFORCE RTX 3080 TI. Although the interior shows accumulated dust, the screenshot shared by the user indicates that the system works and recognizes all the hardware. When a cheap bid becomes treasure Operation data are available on the City online Auccans website, Where the lot remains published. It is number 123 and describes a box Fractal Design defines 7 xlwith price of $ 317.99. The final bid was $ 23.50 plus commission, according to the official file. The images associated with the ad barely showed the box inside a cardboard and a catalog photo, without giving clues of its real content. The contrast between the paid price and the real value of the components is striking. According to AMD and NVIDIA launch prices, only the Ryzen Threadripper 3960x processor It was originally sold for $ 1,399while the RTX 3080 TI exceeded $ 1,100 at its departure in 2022. Even with current depreciation, the complete set can reach several thousand dollars in the second -hand market, especially for the large amount of RAM. The announcement of capital City Online Auccans included clear warnings: all articles were sold “AS-IS, without guarantee, or possibility of return. He also insisted in what The bids should be based on the written description And not in the images, which could be filed. The collection was only face -to -face, without shipping option, and the regulations of the site establishes that any dispute must be resolved by arbitration in Ohio. The case raises an interesting issue: how far does the responsibility of a buyer get in such a situation? The user paid what the bid indicated and collected the article according to the standards, so no rule of the auction has breached. However, some commentators in Reddit wonder if he should have warned the company to correct what seems like a cataloging error. The capital policy online Auctions makes it clear that sales are definitive, but the ethical debate is still open: take advantage of luck or return the finding? The purchase of this PC box recalls that at online auctions there is always a risk and surprise component. In this case, the buyer obtained a high -level team For the price of a piece of chassis. Beyond the blow of luck, the story underlines the importance of reading the small print and reviewing the lots before any movement. Images | Calladeusgame (reddit) | Capital City Online Auccans In Xataka | In the Tiktok era, our laptops are still horizontal. Lenovo’s idea: a rotating panel

There will be only one young man for every three professionals who retire

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Spain faces an unprecedented challenge with respect to generational relay of the current active population due to demographic aging. According to a recent one Study of the Observatory of the Professional Training of Caixabank Duiza and Orkestra Basque Institute of Competitiveness, in Spain there is a deficit of almost 3.5 million people under 30 years in the employed population to compensate for the weight of the population over 50 years of age than He will retire In the coming years. “There is a true demographic fire, only that it is not unforeseen, we have seen it on and extend,” declares to The avant -garde Mónica Mosa, researcher and co -author of the study. This mismatch among young people under 30 and over 50 years old It has doubled In the last decade, putting at risk the sustainability of many companies and economic activities for shortage qualified labor. Demographic differences in the working population. As the report points out, for each young person under 30 there are three workers over 50. This imbalance will make, for example, in a decade this proportion He moves To the price for retirement benefits, where a worker would support the benefits of several pensioners, increasing pressure on the pension system. In communities such as Asturias, for every 100 young people under 30 there are 257 over 65 years old, while in Castilla y León and Galicia this proportion exceeds 220 greater than 65 per 100 young people. These regions, characterized by being rural and with a High depopulation ratethey have added difficulties to attract and retain young labor in fundamental professions such as agriculture, livestock or forest agents, pillars of their local economy. The low birth rate. The main trigger for this situation is decline Birth rate in Spainwhich in the last ten years has dropped by 27%. The average number of children per woman is well below the necessary to maintain the population, which has gone from 9.11 born by a thousand inhabitants in 2013 to 6.61 births per thousand inhabitants in 2023. However, this rate varies considerably depending on the origin of the families, varying from the 8.30 births per thousand inhabitants of Spanish mothers at 16.05 of foreign mothers. Likewise, the study includes that the number of children per woman has also dropped from 1.27 in 2013 to 1.12 in 2023, being equally lower among Spanish women (1.09 children) than among foreign women (1.28 children). These last figures are a clear risk to the sustainability of the generational relief in the workplace, taking into account that at least 2.1 children per woman would be necessary to guarantee it. The impact goes by sectors. The shortage of young people especially affects sectors with traditional and technical trades such as electricity, plumbing, carpentry, manufacturing industry, construction or repair of vehicles. In this group of artisans and qualified workers record a deficit of around 500,000 young people to occupy the vacant positions left by the workers who retire in the next decade. In sectors such as public administration, difference is even more marked: For every 100 officials under 30 there are 690 over 50 years. This is one of the reasons why the Public Administration has stepped on the accelerator in the call for oppositions in which record figures have been reached. In the opposite pole, sectors linked to leisure and culture, Information and communications and hospitality are not affected by this mismatch in the generational relief since they attract a greater number of young people, contrasting with the low attraction of young professionals in industrial and administrative activities. Labor scarcity will impact the economy. The regions with the greatest presence of the most affected professional sectors such as Andalusia (Agriculture and Livestock) Catalonia and Madrid (industrial sectors), show the largest deficit figures of professionals in absolute numbers approaching (and even exceeding) close to half a million people. These communities stand out as the main focuses where the lack of generational relief will be more critical for the local and national economy since its active population percentage with respect to Spain’s total is also greater. Professional training as a key to relay. The report indicates The importance of professional training (FP) as a fundamental solution To face this deficit of new professionals in industrial sectors. According to their authors, the greatest imbalances are seen in the average grade, where there is a lower attraction of young people with respect to those of higher degree. In general terms, there is a lower generational gap among people occupied with FP. This is due to the ease of access to the labor market of young people studying professional training. However, the different branches of professional training must keep attracting young people during the next decades to balance the current deficit. On the other hand, the lack of young people trained in the care sector, whose growth is linked to demographic aging, and the talent migration of the abroad health sector complicate the balance in the generational relief. The report underlines the importance of achieving “young people stay in the territory” and connect their training with the business fabric to ensure effective relief. In Xataka | Talent scarcity has chronified to an extreme point: 75% of companies do not find what they are looking for Image | Unspash (Gabor Szuhan)

If the question is what salary the richest man in the world could have, Tesla has given an answer: 1 billion dollars

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After the judicial battle that ended with the salary bonus block of 50,000 million that Tesla had to pay Elon Musk, the electric car manufacturer has launched an order to its shareholders with a New salary proposal For its CEO: a bill bonus (European billion) if you get the company out of the crisis in which it is mired. The potential value of the salary package that Tesla has presented Before the Bag and Securities Commission, it could raise the fortune of Musk, which is currently estimated at about 435.4 billion dollars, until it became The first billionaire in history If you manage to meet all the required conditions. The salary package conditions. He New salary plan That Tesla has proposed to Elon Musk does not consist of a traditional salary or cash bonuses: the entire figure depends on the flexible delivery of actions throughout the next decade, provided that it meets certain very demanding milestones, such as reaching Total sales of 20 million additional cars. All in the context of a company plunged into A sales crisis global. The shares will be delivered by sections, instead of the end of the period as it happened with its 2018 bonus, and only if Tesla manages to multiply its stock market value until it reaches at least one capitalization of 8.5 billion dollars, starting from the billion that is currently worth in the stock market. To put this figure in context, Nvidia is technological more powerful of the momentand its capitalization is 4.05 billion dollars. It’s not just money: it’s also power in Tesla. In addition, the plan could meet the historical demand of its CEO to have More power within the company. Currently, Musk control around 12% of the actions of Tesla. However, with the new salary bonus its participation in Tesla would increase to 29%. Increase your participation to that percentage would allow Musk increase your influence direct about the company. In this way, it would have enough weight to block important decisions that would not have their approval and further reinforce their position as an essential leader. In one recent interview For the CNBC, Robyn Denholm, president of the Tesla Board of Directors, made it clear to investors to “retain and encourage Elon is essential for Tesla to become the most valuable company in history.” Without a doubt, a salary package of such a draft should be enough to motivate the richest man in the world. Termination clause and a commitment to the future. Such and as they break down in Bloomberganother of the conditions of the new salary package announced by Tesla, it is established that MUSK must remain as CEO of Tesla During, at least, the next ten years to be able to opt for the entire compensation, with a minimum of seven and a half years to unlock the first section of the remuneration. “If it yields, if it reaches the ambitious objectives of the plan, it will receive a participation: 1% for each half billion dollars of stock market capitalization, plus the operational milestones it must achieve to achieve it,” Denholm explained. On the other hand, among the operational challenges that the commercial deployment of one million is found during that time of autonomous robotaxis and of the Optimus robots with integrated Grok, multiplying by 24 the current benefits of the company. Investors will have to vote. After registering the proposal to the regulatory body of the stock market, the next step in its process is to submit the salary bonus to the vote of investors. Something that is still more than A mere formal procedure since the previous 2018 salary package was also voted on a shareholders’ meeting, and finally It was canceled by a court of Delaware for the complaint of one of the shareholders. In Xataka | The shocking thing is not that Elon Musk has lost 80,000 million dollars in 2025: others have earned 102.00 million Image | Tesla, dvids (Trevor Cokley)

A man with paralysis has achieved it precisely thanks to AI

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Artificial intelligence has come to Being able to improve our day to dayand this is what a team from the University of California wanted Improve the quality of life of people with disabilities. Machine control with the mind. Something that a priori can be taken from a science fiction film, but that neurotechnology laboratories want to lead to reality. The problem is that precision and accessibility remain a real challenge for all engineers. In this way, the Cerebro-Order interfaces (BCI) right now they require very complex surgery for Be able to install electrodes in the brain To achieve great precision. But now this will change, According to a study Published in the prestigious magazine Nature Machine Intelligence which presents an advance that could change the rules of the game: an AI that acts as ‘co -pilot’ of a non -invasive BCI that improves its performance. A team that has already been tested. The system, developed by Jonathan Kao’s team at the University of California, has allowed a man with partial paralysis to control a robotic arm to perform complex tasks, something he could not do with conventional BCI technology. A co -pilot of AI to read the mind. Non -invasive BCIs, which are placed on the scalp to capture the electrical signals of the brain, are safer and more accessible, but also less precise. The “noise” and the weakness of the signals make it difficult for the system to decipher the user’s intentions exactly. This is where artificial intelligence enters. Instead of trying to decode each nuance of brain activity, Kao’s system Use an AI that collaborates with the user. And this is how Kao himself explains to Nature: These co -pilots are essentially collaborating with the user of the BCI and trying to infer the objectives you want to achieve, and then help complete those actions. In this way, artificial intelligence learns to integrate the intention of the user himself, needing less direct brain information to execute a precise command. This creates a shared autonomy system, between the human and the machine itself. Results that speak for themselves. To test this system, the researchers conducted two key experiments. First, they asked four participants (one of them with paralysis) to move a cursor on a screen to a goal. With the traditional BCI they were achieved most of the time. However, by activating the co -pilot of AI, they all completed the fastest task and with a much greater success rate, improving the performance up to four times. The fire test. This was done with a real robotic arm. The task was to take colored blocks and move them to specific points on a table. The participant with paralysis could not complete the task using the non -invasive BCI alone. However, after activating the AI, its success rate shot up to an amazing 93%. Participants without paralysis were also remarkably faster with the help of AI. A view to the future. This approach opens a promising door to improve the quality of life of people with motor disabilities, offering a powerful tool without going through the operating room. Zhengwu Liu, an engineer from Hong Kong University who did not participate in the study, qualifies the idea as “a good way to achieve a more powerful man-machine hybrid system.” There is an ethical challenge. The advance is not free of controversies, and as the neurologist Mark Cook of the University of Melbourne points, it is necessary that the shared autonomy does not occur “at the expense of the user’s autonomy”, since “there is a risk that the interventions of the AI ​​annul or misunderstand the intention of the user.” Kao himself recognizes this challenge. In fact, he reveals that the participants in the study did not like the versions of the system in which the AI ​​had too much control, such as when he could decide the trajectory of the robotic arm itself. Finding that right point where the AI ​​assists without dominating will be key to the future of this technology, which promises to continue evolving with more sophisticated co -drivers and, even, its possible integration into the BCIs surgically implanted. Images | Ubidium Beach In Xataka | Hong Kong faces a huge public health crisis by the Chikungunya virus. Its solution: an army of robot dogs

50 years ago, a man won the ‘US Dakar’ with an unusual co -pilot: his dog

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Dogs have been evolving thousands of years to become our best friends and They have a special memory When it comes to remembering our pampering. Other memories have a very short life in their head, but the safest thing is that Kookie, a mestizo dog, will remember throughout his life the adventures he had with John McCown, his owner. Because they did not give normal walks through the park: they toured the motorcycle desert competing in official tests. And Kookie was not the package: it was the co -pilot. The strange couple. Imagine The scenetoday impossible due to so straight regulations, the era of telemetrías, the absolute control of each extra gram in a competition vehicle and the most absolute technification: a dog uploaded on the deposit of a motorcycle, which competed in official tests and was moving based on the land they were going through. In the 60s, the carnicero by profession John McCown liked to walk with his bike. He did it accompanied by Kookie, his dog, who placed a back basket. At one point, John was going to go one step further: he bought an off -road motorcycle and began to get into his head that could compete in Cross competitions. He did so, and did not leave Kookie behind. My dog ​​knows how to wear the motorcycle. Instead of a basket, John improvised a “seat” with a blanket on the gas tank of his Husky 400 and OSSA 175 SDRand that is where Kookie felt like fish in the water. I imagine that the dog would be waiting for good doses of bones at the end of the day and that was the motivation, but the truth is that I was not there to make bulk: John and Kookie trusted each other to wear the motorcycle. During about 300 tests, the couple ate hundreds of potholes, swallowed dust and crossed puddles while both adapted their position on the vehicle to tame it in the best possible way. In This article From the American Motorcyclist magazine, McCown’s wife, McCown Describe That Kookie bowed to the curves, leaned on the deposit in the rugged field and stood up when potholes came. A bomb. Both executed a choreography on the motorcycle, and although at first they did not do it as an advertising maneuver, it is evident that it caught the attention of many. They appeared in the documentary movie ‘On Any Sunday‘, Kookie starred in children’s books such as’ Kookie the Motorcycle Racing Dog’ and ‘Kookie Rides Again’ and even brands like Ossa, Can-Am and Kawasaki the They sponsored. Kookie Junior. When Kookie got on the motorcycle, she was 10 years old. Hundreds of races later, and with 13, after a check, McCown preferred that his compi would limit to some shorter and less demanding races. Until 14, when John decided that Kookie should hang the helmet and live on the couch. He died at age 16, but as John remembers in the 1981 article, before leaving he left a litter. One of them was baptized as Kookie Junior, and for 10 years, he ran with John as Kookie had done before. They got some off-road championship (such as the 175cc class championship) and, although some wondered if it was not crazy, it was a friendship that benefited both of them for fun and for the company in the long and hard careers for the western American deserts. To the hall of fame. Such was the legend of McCown and Kookie (s) that were included In the Hot Shoe Hall of Fame, an organization and museum dedicated to preserving the history of motorcycle races in ‘Flat Track’ and ‘Speedway’, recognizing both the pilots and the mechanics, personalities and influential journalists in that world. “Kookie learned to read the terrain, leaning back in the rugged and standing at the most smooth. John could always know what came ahead because of the way Kookie moved.” – Description of the “plaque” of the Hot Shoe Hall of Fame. Unfortunately, that recognition is something that John did not live. McCown He died In 2011 due to complications after cardiac operation. On the other side, surely Kookie and KJ were waiting for him, with the engine on and ready for one more adventure. Images | McCown, Race DezertAmerican Motorcyclist In Xataka | “With head, we would all go on motorcycles of 20 hp”: there is a bud debate about how much power is too much power for a motorcycle

A man gave up his image for $ 750 without thinking too much. Your double digital now “sells” horoscopes and supplements

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Scott Jacqmein charged $ 750 and a trip. In return, she delivered her image for an external agency to make her a Avatar Digital For a year. That avatar has appeared in Tiktok Selling horoscopes, supplements and insurance in Spanish and other languages, although Jacqmein lives in Dallas and has not recorded any of those ads. His face, without his usual beard, continues to circulate in videos generated by artificial intelligence. With the contract he signed, he has no simple ways to stop him. The man signed a license to use his image for twelve months, without royalties, and without legal representation to advise him. The agreement was not with Tiktok directly, but with an external agency that, According to The New York Timesgathered actors material to create avatars for advertising purposes. At the time, he saw that recording as a professional opportunity. Today, he acknowledges that he did not fully understand how his digital image would be used or in what kind of campaigns would appear. AI AVATARES: Licenses, Control and Business Seeing his double digital speaking another language and moving with an expressiveness that is not his was, for Scott Jacqmein, a disconcerting experience. The only real thing in those pieces is the original source: the face and voice that delivered an agency under contract. Although videos include a “Ai-generated”the realism of avatars makes this warning easily pass unnoticed, probably pending as authentic testimonies in the Feed of users. According to the American newspaper, the Jacqmein avatar is part of a catalog that Tiktok offers companies as an advertising tool. Advertisers can choose between several profiles, age, gender and appearance, and Generate videos directly from the platformno need for filming. These avatars are free for brands and are used in Tiktok advertising service, within a creative suite called Symphony. Jacqmein does not have clear contractual mechanisms to stop the use of his avatar. The license he signed with the agency was for a year, although it has not been made public at what exact moment of 2024 was formalized. Until this month, he says, his acquaintances continued to warn him that they saw him in Tiktok ads, which suggests that his image is still active in recent campaigns. The actor regrets not having negotiated restrictions on products, languages or environments in which his avatar could be used. On the left, Scott Jacqmein’s avatar created by AI for ads on Tiktok. On the right, the actor in a real image taken during a walk Jacqmein’s story is a reflection of the type of situations that may arise in an environment where artificial intelligence It allows to replicate faces and voices easily. We do not know if all agreements of this type are managed the same, but this case shows what can happen when the terms are not clearly defined. In a digital world where opportunities multiply, the consequences of what we sign can also do. In the prominent image that accompanies this article, the avatar generated by AI appears on the left and the real photography of Jacqmein, on the right. Images | Scott Jacqmein | Tiktok capture In Xataka | Duolingo believed that AI was his ally. GPT-5 has just demonstrated that it can be its mortal competition

When a man removed the protective plastic to his monitor he realized that it was not the protective plastic

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Remaking the protective plastics of new devices is all A category within the ASMR. Stretching the film to reveal the completely new and bright surfaces gives a taste, except when what we remove is not a protective plastic and we end up loading the device. It is just what happened to this Reddit user with his new monitor. What happened. User tells Messaywaffle123. He had just bought a new 4K monitor and everything was going well until he realized that he was still wearing what he thought was the protective plastic. “It worked perfectly for five minutes before curiosity seized me,” he says in a post that has more than 700 comments. At least the monitor was second -hand and it only cost him $ 100. What is that layer. As you can imagine, that layer should not be removed since it is actually the polarizing filter and is part of the panel. The LCD screens They have several polarizing filters that are responsible for filtering the light to show the images. In this case he only removed a corner of the outer layer and, from what is seen in the images, he hit it again. The marks of stretching the plastic are noticed, but the screen is still seen. If I had completely eliminated it, the screen would look white as can be seen in This video where we see an LCD screen without the polarizing filter. It can be replaced. If the same thing happened to this user and you have removed the polarizing layer unintentionally, You can buy one and try to replace it manually. This is what many users recommend in Reddit’s thread responses, although most admits that it is not a simple task since it is very easy for bubbles or dust to remain. Other cases. It is not the first what happens And not only in monitors, similar things have also happened On TVsoften because when the real protective plastic removal, it was carried behind the lower layer. There have been more cases. We recently saw how Nintendo warned buyers of the new Switch 2 that were removing the protective layer. It was not really a polarizing filter, but a layer to prevent the screen from breaking into pieces if it suffered an impact. Samsung also happened with the first fold: Some users removed the plastic from the interior screen, leaving it unusable. Image | Reddit In Xataka | In 2011 someone published in Reddit “A858”. Fourteen years and thousands of messages later, the mystery is still disound

In 2016 a man began to edit movies with kittens videos. Today he projects them in cinemas and is raising a fortune

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Imagine that you like cats so much that you decide to set up a movie from funny videos that you find online. And now imagine that You end up becoming a film festival And I peta. It is not fiction, it is the story of Cat video fest And last year he raised more than one million dollars. The phenomenon. The cats are A whole genre of the Internetone that seems that It never goes out of style. In 2016, Will Braden decided to set up a feature film with funny cats of cats because … why not? It was the principle of Cat Video Fest, an annual event that projects a cinemas in cinemas and has a very noble objective: to donate part of the collection to shelters and associations of needy cats. He began projecting in the United States and Canada, but growing popularity has made it projected in other countries in the world. Cats and that’s it? Yes, cats and that’s it. Throwing things from the table, in strange postures, making mischievas … there is no history or conductive thread, only funny videos of cats, one behind the other. The 2024 film lasted 73 minutes. Those are many cat videos. In a Variety reportthe creator admits that he sees more than 15,000 cat videos a year and selects about 200 for the movie. A job. “It’s my full -time work. On my card I see that I see cat videos,” says Braden. It looks like a fairly easy and pleasant job, but there is a quite dense part: request and get permits to use the content. The selection of videos takes a complete quarter, as is the same as getting the permits of everything. The last quarter before launch is dedicated to distribution and promotion tasks. Of course, he admits that his wife who is a primary teacher wins more than him. It is profitable. There is not much information about the total raised from the first edition, but we do know what they achieved in 2024. In a Note to Shareholders (Yes, he has shareholders), Will Braden said that the total collection amounted to 1,026. $ 470, of which she would donate $ 100,000 to shelters. In one Reddit Question SessionBraden said that the minimum they donate from each entry is 10%, “sometimes more depending on the city.” It does not give details of how the remaining 90% is distributed, but they do say they dedicate it to pay the cinemas where it is projected. The 2025 edition begins to project tomorrow and hope to get 1.2 million dollars only in the collection of the United States and Canada. Image | Cat video fest In Xataka | The ‘Maullido Division’, when Russia released 5,000 cats to help in World War II

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