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Spain’s secret weapon in the Olympic Games is a skater dressed as a Minion. Universal almost prevented it

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Tomàs-Llorenç Guarino Sabaté had been preparing for months for the most important moment of his sporting career. The 26-year-old Catalan skater, six-time Spanish champion, was clear about how he wanted to make his debut in the Olympic Games: dressed as a Minion, on the ice of Milan-Cortina 2026performing a medley of songs from the Universal Pictures animated saga. He had used that program throughout the season in international competitions, with the characteristic costume of blue jumpsuit and yellow t-shirt. I thought I had all the permits in order. Drama at Universal. On February 3, just four days before the opening ceremony of the Games, Guarino received devastating news: Universal Pictures was denying him permission to use the Minions’ music and costume in the Olympic event. “I was informed that I no longer have permission, due to copyright issues,” the skater explained in a statement published by the Royal Spanish Ice Sports Federation. Their competition was scheduled for Tuesday, February 11. Changing programs at that point seemed impossible. Permits? What permissions? In August 2024, before starting the season, he had processed the necessary permits through ClicknClearthe official system that the International Skating Union (ISU) makes available to athletes to manage music rights. His intervention included four pieces: Universal Pictures’ characteristic fanfare in the Minions version, ‘Freedom’ by Pharrell Williams (which appears in ‘Despicable Me’), and two other compositions related to the franchise. Negotiations begin. The week before the Games, Universal Studios requested additional information about the music and costumes that Guarino had been using for months. A race against time then began: the skater and his team had to negotiate simultaneously with Universal Pictures, Pharrell Williams, Sony Music and Juan Alcaraz, each owner of different rights of the songs. But as the news spread on social media, the massive support for Guarino convinced Universal to reconsider its position. All good. The skater quickly got approval for two of the songs, and got permission for a third by contacting the composer, also Spanish, directly. The fourth and final piece, Pharrell’s, was resolved at the last moment. On Friday, February 7, just two hours before the figure skating competition at the Games began with the team event, final confirmation came. The Royal Spanish Ice Sports Federation (RFEDH) announced that Guarino had obtained all the necessary licensesand managed to participate as planned last night. The laws. Guarino’s case is not an isolated incident. For decades, the International Skating Union (ISU) strictly prohibited the use of music with lyrics in competitions. Skaters could only choose instrumental pieces, usually classical music, that were in the public domain and did not raise copyright conflicts. In 2014the ISU decided to allow vocal music to attract a younger audience and modernize the image of the sport. The first time was in PyeongChang 2018. More cases. This artistic opening brought unforeseen consequences: skaters began to use copyrighted music, and artists began to claim compensation for its use. Alexa Knierim and Brandon Frazier used a version of ‘House of the Rising Sun’ performed by the duo Heavy Young Heathens in Beijing 2022, who sued them. This year, Russian Petr Gumennik They denied permission to use the music from the soundtrack of ‘The Perfume’. Belgian Loena Hendrickx changed one Celine Dion song for another at the last minute due to legal complications. Canadian artist CLANN expressed his displeasure upon discovering that the American Amber Glenn had used one of her songs, even though she had won the team gold medal with it. Mea Culpa. ISU President Jae Youl Kim has openly acknowledged the extent of the problem during these Games. The organization continues to seek solutions, but the complexity of the music rights ecosystem (involving songwriters, performers, production companies, record labels and distribution platforms) makes any licensing system vulnerable to errors or misunderstandings. The 2014 decision to modernize the sport by allowing vocal music was intended to revitalize it and bring it closer to new audiences, but has generated an unforeseen side effect. In Xataka | Surya Bonaly, the unattainable skater who ended up being banned from “dancing with death”

Bill Gates was so obsessed with driving a Porsche 959 that he managed to change the laws that prevented him

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Bill Gates, Microsoft’s co -founder is, in addition to one of the richest men in the worlda passionate about Supercars that Porsche manufactures. So much so that he even had to fight for more than a decade for the US government to change a law that would allow him to drive his Porsche through the streets of Seattle. Thanks to your perseverance, today Millionaires lovers of supercarlike Elon Musk or Larry Ellison, they can have their garages full of limited editing exotic hypercoches and drive them. The story of a Porsche 959 parked in customs Bill Gates is a great passionate about technology and engineering, so in 1987, he commissioned a brand new Porsche 959 that has just been presented. At that time, 959 was one of the most advanced supercarincluding one of the first biturbo engines with total traction and an electronic toe. The six -cylinder and 2.8 -liter engine of 959 delivered 450 horsepower and was able to reach 317 km/h. A prodigy of technology that the young and already millionaire Bill Gates did not resist driving. However, when his Porsche 959 arrived in the United States, he was held at Seattle Customs. The reason: the strict shock test imposed by US laws had not passed, and that prevented him from being able to circulate on public roads. The Porsche 959 was A technological revolution By the end of the 80s, a supercar that Porsche had developed with a huge expenditure that would never recover For direct sale. Due to the high cost that would add to the list of development expenses that they were not going to recover with sales, the German brand refused to perform the shock tests required by the United States. This left the Porsche 959 in anyone’s land and could not legally circulate in the country, and Porsche did not want to adapt it to comply with the regulations. Bill Gates then found an important problem, since his precious Porsche of the only 337 units were manufactured, he was CUSTOMS IN CUSTOMS of Seattle. Bill Gates’s obsession for that particular model led the millionaire to an unpublished situation that forced his brand new car to remain retained in Seattle customs for no less than 13 years. To ensure that he remained there, the millionaire paid throughout that time the $ 28 per day required by the Port Authority for keep the car parked In your deposit, adding a total of more than $ 138,000 for this concept for more than a decade. The Law “Show and Display” Bill Gates’ tenacity was essential to change this situation. Not satisfied with accepting that his car was confiscated in customs, the billionaire gathered the best lawyers and undertook a legal battle against US authorities to ensure that his Porsche 959 could legally circulate. For more than seven years, Gates pressed Washington to change the legislation and allow an exemption For importation and the use of certain rare and collectible cars that are not officially sold in the United States. In this way, the door opened to them US Millionaires and Collectors They can buy these exotic units and limited editions, although they do not meet certain legal traffic demands. Bill Gates’ perseverance was fruit and, in 1999, President Bill Clinton signed the Law “Show and Display” which allows certain historical or technologically relevant vehicles to be imported and driven under special conditions. This law only affects cars with less than 500 manufactured units and special editions, and limited its driving to no more than 2,500 miles per year (about 4,023 kilometers). These limits emphasized the orientation of the law to allow entry to collection pieces and rare units, not to regular use cars. Thanks to this law, the Porsche 959 of Gates was finally able to leave his captivity in the Customs of Seattle and circulate through the streets of the US. In Xataka | The fastest supercar of the 80s no longer beats speed records. Now height batting after falling from a truck Image | Porsche, Flickr (Government Tom Wolf)

The price of Xiaomi Yu7 is still a mystery. That has not prevented the waiting list from buying it is already one year

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The Xiaomi Yu7, the first completely electric SUV of the brand and its second model, has reached the market razing. To the point that your waiting list has shot 350 days. If you live in China and want one, you will have to wait almost a year. 350 days. That is what, according to Carnewschina those who wait to acquire a Xiaomi Yu7. The demand of the model has been so high since its Official presentation which has broken the production chain that cannot be basted for 50 weeks for new reserves. According to data collected by the specialized environment in the Chinese engine market, the waiting time is equivalent to a production of 271,000 vehicles. To get an idea, it is half of the units that They sold in China del Tesla Model and in 2024 So you can consider very good numbers considering that Xiaomi has just entered the electric car market. Without price. The most striking of the Xiaomi Yu7 is that we still do not know its price. And the company will wait to announce it up to one or two days before the first deliveries, according to CNEVPOST. At the moment, it is known that the intention is to launch it in July but it has not been specified what day and the date has not been reconfirmed. A fever called Xiaomi. In spite of everything, the volume of reservations is so high that we will have to wait almost a year to receive the car if you add your waiting list right now. The number of customers has therefore surpassed the Xiaomi Su7 that in all its variants it had more restrained waiting times. However, those “restrained” waiting times were extended to 25 weeks to receive the first units of the company’s first electric. And in March it was announced that the Xiaomi Su7 Prothe intermediate option of the Berlinas presented (with large LFP battery of 94.3 kWh signed by CATL and 295 hp engine) has everything sold by 2025 and the waiting list in this case also extends between 47 and 50 weeks. They explain in Carnewschina That the launch of the Xiaomi Yu7 has also re -raised the number of Berlin reserves, being a new push for the model. Right now, to receive the access model (the one that accumulated 25 weeks of waiting during its launch and which has the small 73.6 kWh battery) it is necessary to wait between 41 and 44 weeks. The fastest thing is to ask for your Xiaomi Su7 Max. To receive the most powerful and face option you have to wait between 31 and 33 weeks. Increasing production. This avalanche of orders has forced the company to increase the production lines for its cars. At first, the objectives were to deliver 300,000 units per year but the only waiting list of the Xiaomi Yu7 already aims to meet that goal. In March last year, in anticipation of the expected it was already confirmed that the company planned to increase production to 480,000 vehicles per year. That growth will come with the New plant which should soon come into operation to produce the electric SUV exclusively. The avalanche of orders, indicate in Carnewschinait could lead to more delays in the delivery of the electric Berlin. At the moment, the objective is to deliver this year 350,000 units, as confirmed by Lei Jun himself, CEO of Xiaomi, months ago in information collected by South China Morning Post. That almost half a million units produced should arrive with the lines already operating at full performance. Unleashed. The media stir in which the arrival of Xiaomi’s first cars has become huge. To get an idea, There are tourists paying a money to learn about the factory where the Chinese company is producing its vehicles, with guided visits included. The noise generated in social networks is huge but that has also raised some criticism and suspicions. Criticism of some buyers who are showing their discontent because some components of the Xioami su7 ultra do not give what is promised either With its quality. And suspicions by Xiaomi herself she has denounced, Like Byda social media harassment campaign with the aim of discrediting the company and its new products. Photo | Xiaomi In Xataka | The Xiaomi Su7 is a rocket: already sells more than the Tesla Model 3 and doubled the electric cars sold from all over Spain

9,000,000 dollars that prevented a major catastrophe in the great recession

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On October 28, 1929, the Down Jones index collapsed almost 13%. It was one of the most devastating days of Wall Street and the ‘Black Monday‘who marked the Great Depression of 1930. The consequences worldwide were devastating, but it is a cyclical that was repeated in 2008 and that He threatened just a month ago. The financial crisis of 2008 was one of the greatest economic shocks in recent history, and in it there was a history as chanante as representative of the operation of the banks. The 9,000 million dollars check. Collapse. He Origin of the recession was … United States. The banks spent years emitting massively high -risk mortgages (credits to individuals who were not going to be able to pay them) and packaged those operations as opaque products and poorly qualified by valuation agencies (they had more risk than it was said). They were the calls “Toxic assets“That banks and funds from all over the world had bought. It is what caused rampant speculation and an artificial real estate bubble. And all the elements led to the fall of several financial institutions as powerful as Lehman Brothers. The banks stopped lending money, affecting both the entities and companies themselves. There was no money, the stock market fell into chopped jobs and governments had to inject billions to avoid the collapse of the financial system. Aid! Between it was Morgan Stanleyone of the world’s largest investment banks (the US Big Four with Lehman Brothers, Goldman Sach and Merrill Lynch) who needed the same as the rest of the entities: a rescue. The great independent entities sought how to get billions to continue operating, and the state of Morgan Stanley It was critical. After flirting with some banks, including a Chinese controlled by the state, they put their hopes in Mitsubishi UFJ. It is one of Japan’s biggest banks and, after intense negotiations, agreed to inject a stratospheric amount. 9,000 million. It is said soon, but with that figure they would get 21% of Morgan Stanley and an annual dividend of 10%. They would be done with a good piece of the American banking cake and Morgan Stanley could continue to operate, but there was a problem: there was no way that the amount arrived in time to avoid collapse. In fact, everything pointed in one address: if that money did not arrive, the bank would disappear. Time ran against a Morgan Stanley who, in a matter of days, saw how his shares fell from 60 dollars to less than $ 10. Transfer and holidays. We were in 2008 and the methods were the same as today (that does not speak well of traditional banking, precisely). The negotiation between the entities was urgently held a weekend and if you are one of those who make transfers, you already know what that means: banks do not make transfers on the weekend or holidays. Due to Columbus dayIn addition, they were going to be closed until Tuesday and, in addition, a transfer took between two and three days. It may, by then, Morgan Stanley no longer existed. In addition, the entity needed to make the announcement of the fusion as soon as possible to relieve the load a bit and show the investors that there was light at the end of the tunnel. The solution was as archaic as effective: paper and boli. Of joke. In the negotiation, one of the members of the Morgan Stanley team commented a “what a pity that you cannot simply extend a check. account That attendees laughed, but it was a laugh followed by something like “a moment, it can work.” And what if it worked: if Mitsubishi could face extending a check of 9,000 million dollars, nothing prevented Morgan from depositing it at the bank before the markets opened on Tuesday morning. Thus, they could announce the fusion, they would have the money on the account, the investors would be happy and the end of the story. Round. Japanese negotiators called the central, they found that they did have the ability to extend that check and the result was as follows: A role that guaranteed that Morgan Stanley received an injection of 9,000,000 dollars and that caused an increase in the price of shares of $ 9.68 to $ 17.92 when the markets opened on Tuesday. The operation had gone well for both and today, Morgan Stanley has a capitalization of 190,000 million, while Mitsubishi’s investment today exceeds 40,000 million. A round business that, rather than for history itself, is curious for how a piece of paper (the most expensive in history, could be?) It was imposed on the limitations of the Banks computer system. In fact, in the documentary that the firm made About their history a few years ago, they recognize the most important of this matter: they were lucky. Images | Mortan Stanley In Xataka | “A hole we have never seen”: 25% tariff

AI is a great black box that prevented us from knowing how “I thought” inside. Until now

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AI do not have No idea what he says Not why he says it. When he responds almost everything makes sense – even his legs of legs – but he only seems to us, because the machines do not understand what they do. They simply do. We do not know how the IAS think inside, but that seems to be able to change soon. Opening the black box. Those responsible for Anthropiccreator of the chatbot Claude, They affirm having made an important discovery that will begin to understand how the LLM work. These models work as large black boxes: we know what we give them starting (a prompt) and what we get as a result, but it is still a mystery what happens within that “black box” and how the models end up generating the content they generate. Why it is important to know how “think” the AI. The inscrutability of AI models generates important problems. For example, it makes it difficult to anticipate If they “hallucinate” or make mistakesand why they have committed them. Precisely knowing how they work inside would allow better to understand those incorrect responses to correct these problems and improve the behavior of these models. Safer, more reliable. Knowing why the IAS do what they do as they do would also be crucial to be able to trust us much more. These models would therefore allow many more guarantees in areas such as the privacy and protection of the data, something that can be a barrier for companies to use. And reasoning models, what. The appearance of models such as O1 or Deepseek R1 has allowed that during these “reasoning” processes the AI ​​apparently shows what you are doing at all times. That list of minitareas that is completing (“searching the web”, “analyzing the information”, etc.) are useful, but the so -called “chain of thought” does not really reflect how our requests are processing these models. How does Claude calculate how much are 36+59? The mechanism is not entirely clear, but in Anthropic they begin to decipher it. Source: Anthropic. Deciphering how AI thinks. Anthropic experts have created a tool that tries to decipher that black box. It is something like magnetic resonance scannars that study the human brain and allow to detect which brain regions play their role in certain cognitive areas. Long -term responses. Although models such as Claude are trained to predict the following word in a sentence, in some tasks it seems that Claude makes a kind of longer term planning of the task. For example, if we ask you to write a poem Claude you first find words that fit the theme of the poem and then go back to create the phrases that will generate the verses and rhymes of the poem. A language to think, many to translate. Although Claude has multi -mounted support, Anthropic experts reveal that their operation by handling several languages ​​is not “thinking” in those languages ​​directly. Instead use concepts that are common in several languages, so It seems to “reason” in the same language and then translate the exit to the desired language. The models cheat. That research also revealed that the models They can lie about what they are doing And they can even pretend that they are thinking when they really already have the answer to our request. One of Claude’s developers, Josh Batson, explained how “although (the model) claims to have made a calculation, our interpretability techniques do not reveal any indication that it has occurred.” How Anthropic’s deciphering works. The Anthropic method makes use of the call Cross-Layer Transcoder (CLT) that works analyzing interpretable sets instead of trying to analyze individual “neurons”. For example, these characteristics could be all conjugations of a specific verb. That allows researchers to identify complete “circuits” of neurons that tend to join in these processes. A good start. In the past OpenAi already tried to discover How their AI models thoughtbut it was not very successful. Anthropic’s work has notable limitations, and for example he does not know why the LLM pay more attention to certain parts of the Prompt than others. Even so, according to Batson “in a year or two we will know more about how these models think about what people think.” In Xataka | Universal Music has just stumbled against Anthropic by Copyright: a victory for AI technology

How to repair your chromecast if you were affected by the error that prevented you from sending content

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Let’s explain How to return your chromecast to life If he had been affected by the error that made him not work. It’s about a problem that for a few days I was making the oldest versions of these devices simply could not be used, and gave error if you tried. Now, Google has launched an update with which this problem solves, and we will briefly explain how to use it. Thus, even if you do not have many technological knowledge you will know the steps you must follow. How to return your chromecast to life To solve the problem of chromecast that have stopped working, Google has launched a firmware update which will begin to reach all devices. Recall that this problem affects second generation chromect and chromecast audio. These updates are usually automatic. This means that the only thing you need is that your chromecast is connected to the house Wi -Fi network and is connected to the current. Even if you could not send content, your Chromecast had not ceased to be connected to the network, so there will be no problem to receive the update. Of course, it is important that you know that when the chromecast did not work You should not have restored it. If you restore it you will have a problem to connect and configure it again that it has not yet been solved. Meanwhile, if you had not touched your chromect, I should return to life in a matter of hours. In Xataka Basics | Seven unusual things for which you can use your chromecast with Google TV

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