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The Winter Olympics leave Italy with a debt of 7.8 million dollars. Not to organize them, to win them

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Italy can be satisfied with the Winter Olympic Games, held in its own home. It has gone well. Very good, in fact. Thirty medals in total: 10 gold, six silver and 14 bronze. If we talk about metals in general only there are three nations with a better balance, the powerful Norway (41) and the United States (33). The most curious thing is that this balance is so damn good that now Italy will have to assume a debt of almost eight million of dollars. Success also pays. What has happened? That Italy will have to face a debt of 7.8 million dollars for the Winter Olympics that it just hosted. So far nothing extraordinary if we take into account the large investment carried out by the country to host the Olympics and that a large part of these funds were financed by the Executive itself. The curious thing is that those almost eight million have nothing to do with its status as host or the infrastructure necessary for the tests. The debt has another reason: the sporting successes achieved by Italy. Country Golds Silver Bronze Total Norway 18 12 11 41 USA 12 12 9 33 Italy 10 6 14 30 Germany 8 10 8 26 Japan 5 7 12 24 Debts to earn? Yes. The news (and the calculations that support it) has revealed them Forbeswhich on Sunday echoed the peculiar scenario that Italy faces. In his day the Italian National Olympic Committee He decided to encourage his athletes by promising them huge bonuses if they made it onto the podium. To be more precise, he offered 213,000 dollars in exchange for gold, 106,000 for silver and 71,000 for bronze. What has happened? That incentive seems to have worked and has now generated a million-dollar commitment. Its status as host nation opened the doors to automatic qualification for Italy, but its sports teams have demonstrated a more than notable performance: they achieved 30 medals (10 gold, six silver and 14 bronze), ten more than those achieved in 1994which had been his best winter Olympics until now. In fact, in the global ranking it is only surpassed by Norway, with 41 medals, and the USA, with 33. It is also one of the best positioned in gold medals. It occupies third place in the ranking, shared with the Netherlands. Does it only happen to Italy? No. Although it is true that your case is peculiar. For your report Forbes He contacted 37 delegations who confirm having offered incentives to those athletes who reached the podium. Among those groups, Italy was one of the most generous. Only Singapore, Hong Kong, Poland and Kazakhstan surpassed it, which motivated their sports teams with bigger prizes. For reference, Singapore ‘tempted’ its athletes with $787,000 in exchange for gold in individual sports. Hong Kong paid it at $768,000. What happened in Italy? That the claim worked as well for none of those delegations as it did for Italy. According to the calculations of Forbesthe host country is the one that will have to pay the most now: 7.8 million dollars, well above the second on the list, the United States, with just over three million. Third on the list is Switzerland (1.5 million) and fourth is Poland, whose incentives total 1.24 million. In general, the incentive system varies greatly from one country to another. Not only for its rewards. There may also be differences in how these bonuses are financed (with public funds or with sponsors), in the maximum number of bonuses or if the prizes extend beyond the podium, also rewarding athletes who return home with Olympic diplomas. Italy has also decided to offer bonuses to its para-athletes, so the amount it owes to its most successful athletes could increase not much. In this case, the bonus amounts to $118,000 for those who win the gold, 65,000 for those who win the silver and 41,000 for the bronze. Is it the only relevant figure? At all. The bonus debt is curious, but it is by no means the only relevant figure associated with the Winter Olympic Games that Italy has just organized, with distributed headquarters through Milan, Cortina d´Ampezzo, Verona, Valtellina and Val di Fiemme. Another key data is the investment mobilized by the competition. S&P estimates that the total cost of the Winter Games comfortably exceeded 5,000 million euros. A good part of this spending (about 63%) was public and was dedicated mainly to investments in infrastructure. The other fundamental data is the economic return for the country: some estimates speak of the generation of some 5.3 billion eurosa good part of them thanks to tourism boost. Images | Eric Salard (Flickr) and Simone Ferraro/CONI Via | Forbes In Xataka | The Winter Olympics are facing the most unexpected technological doping: penis punctures

A Bugatti Mistral costs five million dollars. Launching it includes convincing the police to organize a race

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It’s not every day that you can brand new a Bugatti Mistrala supercar valued at more than five million and that the CEO of Bugatti himself come deliver it to you in person. However, it is not so common that for this delivery, the CEO has to convince the police that it is a good idea to cut off one of Miami’s coastal roads to traffic to debut the supercar by racing between the Mistral and a custom-built sports yacht for the same owner. Although it may seem very bizarre, these things can happen when you are millionaire enough. A very particular premiere in Miami The delivery of a Bugatti Mistral is never a routine event. It’s a exclusive supercar of which only 99 units were manufactured that were they sold the same day that was put up for sale. However, when you pay five million euros for one of these exclusive jewels, the least you expect is that the CEO of Bugatti himself will come to deliver it to you in person. According to published Luxury Launchesthat’s what happened to Anthony Hsieh, a millionaire from Miami who received the exclusive unit of this supercar. The staging, far from being limited to a simple presentation in the dealer who had sold it to himincluded an unusual proposal: a race in front of the sea competing head to head with one of the exclusive yachts for sport fishing that Hsieh’s company builds. Bugatti’s CEO also joins in Mate Rimac, founder of the brand Rimac supercarscurrent CEO of Bugatti and a true speed enthusiast, did not want to miss the race and got so involved that he finally ended up offering to drive the Mistral in its race against the yacht. Obviously, the CEO wasn’t going to risk getting pulled over by the police or having the car’s owner fined, so he opted to convince Miami traffic authorities to close one of Miami’s busy coastal roads for the race, and This is how he told it on his networks social. A routine delivery for a Bugatti. Bugatti Mistral W16 engine The Bugatti Mistral uses the brand’s legendary W16 engine, an engineering gem what brand the end of an era for the brand since this is the last production model that will carry this 8-liter, 4-turbo block that delivers a power of 1,600 hp. Such a beast catapults the Mistral at a speed above 453 km/h. Her opponent was not exactly a cruising yacht. It is about the Badco 50 Gameboata boat designed for sport fishing of tuna and billfish (a large species similar to swordfish) and therefore must have agile and powerful engines that allow it to navigate at speeds of up to 44 knots. Like the Bugatti, the Badco 50 are customized to the owner’s taste with materials of the highest quality and resistance. Saying that the Badco 50 is a simple fishing boat is like saying that the Mistral is just a car. Furthermore, it so happens that the company that manufactures the Badco 50 is Bad Company Fishing Adventures, It is owned by the millionaire who bought the Mistral, so organizing this race, which as you can see in the video that was recordedis more symbolic than real, the brand sought to turn the delivery of the supercar into an unrepeatable experience for its customer. It’s not every day that the head of a supercar brand makes you luxury chauffeur in the car that has just been delivered to you and all followed by a police escort. If at this point you are still wondering who was the overall winner of the racethe answer is more than obvious: Mate Rimac, and not just by driving the car fasterbut because he took in his pocket the five million that the Bugatti Mistral costs and the absolute loyalty of a customer who will never again receive a car like Bugatti did with his Mistral. In Xataka | Bugatti has discovered that millionaires no longer want to buy luxury cars: they want to buy unique works of art Image | Bad Company Fishing Adventures

how to organize the giveaway step by step in the app

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It’s almost Christmas, so we’re going to tell you how to make a invisible friend giveaway on WhatsApp in case you haven’t done so yet. Today, WhatsApp has enough tools to allow you to do everything, from organizing it to executing it. For this, we are going to start by telling you the previous organizational steps to have everything prepared. And then, to do the draw itself we will resort to Meta AIthe artificial intelligence integrated into WhatsApp itself. Thus, you will not need to use any external tool at any time. The only thing you should keep in mind if you do this is that Whoever organizes the draw will know all the resultsmeaning it will have to be an innocent hand that is not going to reveal them ahead of time. Step 1: Create a group and set the rules The first step is to create a group for participants on WhatsApp, although you can also do it in any other app. In this group you will not do the draw, but it will simply be to start organizing everything, and establish rules among everyone to set up the giveaway. One option is take surveys in the WhatsApp group to define the following characteristics: Budget: This is the most important part. For it to be a balanced invisible friend and everyone spends the same, a minimum and maximum spending margin must be agreed upon so that no one goes too far or falls too short. The normal amount is fifteen to twenty euros, but it depends on each group or family, so the optimal thing is to decide it with a survey. Deadlines: Another of the most important part, deciding the deadline to make the gifts. This way, everyone will be able to take the date into account, although it won’t hurt to remember it from time to time. Exceptions: If couples are going to participate in the invisible friend, it is important to decide if they can give each other gifts, and also establish any other type of exception that you see necessary. Other standards: Any other rules that you want to apply to the game are important to establish before carrying out the draw. Once you have them all, you can write a message with a summary of everything and pin it in the group, so that it always appears at the top and is easy to locate. Step 2: Create a chat with you for details Since we are telling you how to organize the entire giveaway through WhatsApp, then the next step is to use the app to take notes. For that, you can send a message to yourselfand so in these messages you can write down everything, such as the people who participate, who has already bought the gifts or to whom you sent the result of the draw. You can also write down the copy of the draw and the pairings, or the people who have not yet sent the gift and then edit and delete it as they do so. In short, write all the details related to the invisible friendto have it in a visible place within WhatsApp. Step 3: Run the draw Now, go to the main screen of WhatsApp and open Meta AI by clicking on its icon with the blue circle. It will appear in the same list of conversations you have. If you want, you can also do it with other artificial intelligences such as ChatGPT, Copilot either Gemini. The important thing here is to write a prompt specifying that you are going to do an invisible friend giveawayso that the AI ​​already knows what the procedure is. Once inside, you have to write the names of the participantsas well as any possible exceptions. You can use a prompt like this: I want to organize an invisible friend giveaway. These are the people who participate: Loki, Freya, Herminio, Faustina, Clemencio, Cayetana. Loki cannot touch Freya and Freya cannot touch Loki. Furthermore, Faustina and Clemencio cannot touch each other either. Taking these exceptions into account, organize the invisible friend raffle. As you have seen, in the prompt we have first put the names and then the exceptions, indicating who cannot give gifts to each other. This you have to personalize it with the data of your invisible friend and with everything you have organized and agreed upon together. You also have the option of using one of the pages and apps to do the invisible friend raffle like the ones we told you in this article. Here, in each of them there may be different systems, but you will always have to write the names and possible exceptions. Step 4: Send the results Once you have this, write to each person to tell who it is your turn to give. Don’t say this in the group To keep it a secret, simply write individual messages telling everyone who to give the gift to. Here, it is also recommended mention important details of the draw to remind the person. You can use the message to remember both the gift budget and the deadline. It is also important that you ask each person to reply to your message when they have the gift purchased. This way, you can write down who bought it in that message with yourself that we told you before, and you can insist on those who are taking too long to confirm the purchase. In Xataka Basics | The best prompts to save hours of work and do your tasks with ChatGPT, Gemini, Copilot or other artificial intelligence

list of options to use it and organize and clean your cloud

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Let’s tell you options for using Gemini to organize your Google Driveso that you can have your cloud cleaner and more organized. If you’ve been using Google Drive for years, you may have a bit of chaos, you may have accumulated files you don’t need, and there may be things duplicated or in scattered folders. If you are a paying user of Geminiyou are going to have the artificial intelligence from Google implemented within Drive. And if so, then you will be able to use it to organize, select and filter content that is not useful and you can delete. It is not an automatic or extremely fast process, but it will take much less time than doing it by hand. What you can do with Gemini in Drive Let’s tell you what things you can do with Gemini in Drivetasks with which you will be able to organize your content in the cloud much more. We are going to do it in list format. To activate the actions, you will only have to click on the Gemini button within the storage service. Summarize content: You can ask it to summarize the contents of a file, but also of a folder and all the files in it. This way, you will be able to know if there are any files that clash with the rest without having to review them manually. Specific information about folders and files: You can ask specific questions, such as the size of a folder or file’s contents, format, date, or ask about anything else related to the content. Answer questions about a folder: You can ask any question about a folder, from the number of files, the subject, the total size, you name it. Find folders and files: You can ask Gemini to find folders and files by name or other characteristics. Find folders and files by specific data: You can ask it to search for all files larger than 10 MB, for example, all videos, all files uploaded in certain years, all files with a certain word in the title, whatever you need. Resume to file button: Within a file you can also ask for a summary, so you can take a look at what it looks like but not have to read it when deciding what to do with it. In Xataka Basics | How to force Gemini to create images of proportions and sizes you want instead of always making them square

apps that organize the appointment directly

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Our attention is the most precious good for the apps that we have on the mobile. Instagram and Tiktokthe Chatbots of AI… Virtually any app wants to hook us and appointment apps were not going to be less. Tinder converted the search for a couple (or what arises) into an infinite swipe with endless profiles to do Match. However, it seems that the format of offering the more options the better is being exhausted and there are more apps that opt ​​for the contrary: take control and decide for you. The app decides. Until recently, most appointments opted for the Tinder format, but recently new proposals are emerging with a different approach: instead of being the user who spent hours sailing, chatting and looking for their Match Perfect, it is the app who takes control and decides for you. It sounds good, although as they count on the New York Timessome are stopped. Breeze. “A match means an instant appointment,” Breezean app developed in Holland that has already made the leap to more European countries (in Spain not yet) some areas of the United States. Every day, the app sends you a selection of people who may like it and, if you match someone, the app will check the availability of both and arrange an appointment. If you do not accept appointments, in the end they freeze your account. There is not everything left, they also focus on security verifying all users and ensure appointments are carried out in bars that are associated with the app. Breeze is free, but if you get appointments you will have to pay. Near. Oriented to gene generation, the approach of Near It is finding appointments with your friends’s friends. As? Forcing you to share all your contacts if you want to join. The idea is that quotes occur between people with nearby circles, not among strangers. Thus, those mutual friends can give you information and corroborate that your link “is trustworthy.” With this idea, close wants to end practices such as Ghosting since “your reputation is at stake.” It is only Available for iPhone. CUFFED. This app is committed to exclusivity. In Cupd you can only have one match at the same time so that both people are only chatting with each other and not with several at the same time. There are more, only the members can enter and that is only achieved if the app accepts you or if you get a referred code. Once inside, you are obliged to pay the premium subscription, whose prices go from 14.99 to $ 79.99. The Tinder format loses bellows. Having many options is not always good. In apps such as Tinder or Bumble it is easy to get tired of reading profiles, keeping empty conversations and even having appointments. The use data confirmed it: last year we talk about Tinder was losing usersespecially those who paid for Tinder Plus or Gold. After nine years of growth, In 2024 Bumble began to lose users. It seems that the trend is clear. ‘Dating fatigue’. Appointment apps face what is known as ‘Dating fatigue’or what is the same: that it gives you laziness to link. According to data from a Survey by Forbes78% of US appointment apps users admit to being tired of using them. Before a model that seems to be starting its decline, the new models such as those of these apps have an opportunity to highlight. Or even The not so new. Image | Cottonbro Studio, via Pexels In Xataka | Ligar for Tinder is a thing of the past. The latest is to create “love curriculum” in Google Docs

Lego sets ‘The Lord of the Rings’. Five ideas to organize books and decorate the house

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There are few sets who have launched Lego over the years. We have seen collaborations with many brands, being the one of ‘The Lord of the Rings‘One of the most ambitious for its particular constructions. There is currently a lot to choose from, so we have reviewed five sets that can currently be found in stores. Corner between books by 116.03 eurosa set oriented to organize books that adapts the iconic Gandalf scene with the Barlrog. The region by 269.99 eurosan exclusive set of the official store with several constructions and minifigures. Rivendel by 499.99 eurosa large horizontal set with many details and minifigures. Barad-dûr by 459.99 eurosa huge vertical set that adapts the iconic Torre de Sauron. Frodo and Gollum by 29.49 eurosa set with two figures Brick Headz of the two characters of The Lord of the Rings. Corner between books The last set that has come from the collaboration between Lego and the Lord of the Rings is that of the Corner between booksa striking construction not only for its design that adapts the iconic Gandalf scene fighting the balrog, but also serves as organizer (or separator) of books. Its price is 119.99 euros, but in Amazon it is slightly cheaper: by 116.03 euros. The set includes a total of 1,201 pieces to build both the structure and the balrog and the platform. It also comes with a gandalf minifigure and with the corresponding accessories of both characters (a whip, a cane and a sword). In addition, the structure can be opened in the event that you want to place the set to decorate the house and not as a book organizer. LEGO RINCÓN BETWEEN BOOKS * Some price may have changed from the last review The region Another of the last sets that have come from the collaboration between both brands is that of The region. Its price is 269.99 euros And adapt the stage with great detail: includes 2,017 pieces, it comes with nine minifigures, includes many accessories and Bilbo and Frodo’s house can be opened To see the interior of the rooms. In addition, it is a fairly large set, since it has dimensions of 20 centimeters high, 45 cm of width and 27 cm deep. * Some price may have changed from the last review Rivendel One of the best sets that Lego has launched in collaboration with the lord of the rings is that of Rivendela fairly large horizontal construction that has a price of 499.99 euros. Includes a total of 6,167 pieces, includes 15 minifiguras and is Played detail: from the flora to the reliefs of the stones. In this case, we talk about a set that has dimensions of 39 centimeters high, 72 cm of width and 50 cm deep. * Some price may have changed from the last review Barad-dûr Shortly after launching the previous set, Rivendel’s, another spectacular (and slightly cheaper) arrived. It’s about Barad-dûrthe Sauron tower, which has a price of 459.99 euros. It includes a total of 5,471 pieces and comes with 10 minifigures. It also includes many details and the set is built by three modules. In this case, we talk about a large set in vertical format, since its dimensions are of 83 centimeters high45 cm width and 30 cm deep. * Some price may have changed from the last review Frodo and Gollum Finally, LEGO has been launching a good assortment of Figras under the line Brick Headzwhich are basically larger minifigures that can be mounted with pieces. Although it is discontinued in the official store, the set of Frodo and Gollum It is available on Amazon at a price of 29.49 euros. This set includes a total of 184 pieces to mount the two characters and each of the figures has an approximate height of five centimeters. * Some price may have changed from the last review Some of the links of this article are affiliated and can report a benefit to Xataka. In case of non -availability, offers may vary. Images | LEGO In Xataka | Your favorite series, comics and movies also in Lego: 15 ideal construction kits to mount yourself or give away In Xataka | Lego constructions to another level: the Technic series has the models with which any collector would dream

What is, how it works and how to use Google AI to organize information sources or create podcasts in minutes

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Let’s explain What is and how works Notebooklma Google tool to organize your sources using artificial intelligence. It is a curious element, in which you can upload several articles or documents and then ask questions about them or create an audio summary as if it were a podcast. We are going to start the article explaining what this program is exactly, so that you can understand its operation. Then we will tell you how it is used and the options you have available. What is Notebooklm Notebooklm is a service that allows you to use artificial intelligence to interact with a content you decide. Everything you ask and do will have to do with The sources that you have added manuallyand the information will not be obtained from another site. When you use Chatgpt, Gemini or other artificial intelligence chatbot, when asking a question you will get the information from the data with which it was trained and internet. However, with notebooklm The data is removed only from the sources that you addthe articles or documents that you raise to each of the projects, which can be PDF, text files or web pages, even YouTube videos or slides of Google Slides. In addition to that, you can also Create writings or audio summaries From these data. These audio summaries are practically a podcast. Therefore, this Magic notebook It is a kind of Research and Writing Assistant. It can help you learn more from certain texts without having to read them all, something that can also be useful when studying, since by power, you can even ask you to ask you questions and then answer them. Notebooklm is a free toolalthough it also has a payment version for those who have a subscription with Google One to access the best versions of the Google AI. This payment version includes style customization options, collaborative notebooks or more audio summaries, notebooks and the possibility of adding more sources in each. Finally, it is important to know that Notebooklm also has several negative aspects. To start, sometimes you lack precision when finding data in your sources, not finding data that are there. In addition, you can make mistakes and invent things with the classic hallucinations of artificial intelligence, and is still too slow with the answers. How to use Notebooklm You can use notebooklm Through its official website or by mobile applications. The official website is Notebooklm.google.comwhich you can access from any application. And you have the applications In Google Play For Android and In the App Store For the iPhone. Notebooklm is divided into notebooks, which are work spaces. The first thing you will have to do, therefore, is to create a new one. Once inside, both in the application and on the web, in general You will have three columns or sections in which each notebook is divided. On the left you have the fountains. Here, You can add one or more sources. Everything you upload will be what analyzes Google’s artificial intelligence when you ask you questions or ask for content. They can be text documents, slides, PDF, YouTube videos or even links to web pages or online items. Then you have the section of Chatwhich is where you will be able to ask Google’s AI all the questions you want. When you do them, then you will analyze the text and generate an answer. It is here that you will need creativity to ask what you want or ask you to generate different types of text or summaries of what is in the articles. And then you have the section of Studio. In it, you will be able to create an audio with A summary of the sources provided In this project. This summary is almost like a podcast, and you will be able to eliminate or download it. It can be a fantastic tool to have audios to listen at any time, and you can reproduce it from the web or the app. In Xataka Basics | The best PROMPTS to save working hours and do your homework with Chatgpt, Gemini, Copilot or other artificial intelligence

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