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FIA-præsidenten siger, at Fernando Alonso ikke bør forlade på grund af de nuværende omstændigheder, "han skal have succes og så forlade stedet"
Fernando Alonso nærmer sig måske sin pensionering fra Formel 1, men hvor tæt er det? Det er 20 år siden, han sidst vandt et verdensmesterskab, og 13 siden han sidst vandt et Grand Prix, men han har også kæmpet med ukonkurrencedygtige hold og kan nu ofte ikke gennemføre løb med Aston Martin.
Mohammed Ben Sulayem, FIA-præsident, fremsatte en appel før det spanske Grand Prix i Madrid om, at Fernando Alonso ikke skulle trække sig på grund af de omstændigheder. "Der er ingen måde, vi kan lade Fernando forlade – Alonso, en stor mester – bare på grund af omstændighederne," sagde han. "Det er ikke måden at forlade scenen på. Han skal have succes og så forlade scenen, når han vil, ikke fordi han blev tvunget til at forlade på grund af præstationen. "
Faktisk sagde Ben Sulayem, at han vil tale med Alonso, som, da han blev spurgt om det i Madrid, sagde, at en beslutning om hans fremtid ikke ville blive truffet "snart". "Jeg så ham meget trist, og jeg sagde: 'Fernando, jeg forstår, det er ikke acceptabelt, at du kommer til dit eget land og nu efter to gange verdensmester...'", tilføjede Ben Sulayem.
Resident Evil director says test audiences thought the movie was "too funny," so he toned down the humor: "There’s not a single joke I took out of this movie that I miss"
Resident Evil director Zach Cregger says early test audiences loved the movie, but thought it was way too funny for a straight-up horror movie. amunra-opinie.pl
"I learned that people really liked the movie, but they thought it was too funny. So over the course of my testing, I stripped out as much of the jokes as possible," Cregger told The Hollywood Reporter. "I then found that not only did the audience enjoy the movie more, but I also liked the movie a lot more. A little bit of humor goes a long way in a horror movie, and there’s not a single joke I took out of this movie that I miss."
The trailers seem much more scary than funny, though it's worth noting that Cregger has a background in comedy and rose to fame with comedy collective Whitest Kids U'Know. The long-running TV show, which aired on both Fuse and IFC, got pretty dang dark with the humor... so it didn't surprise me as a fan when Cregger made the switch over to horror. His second movie, the Oscar-winning Weapons, even included a touching throwback to a WKUK sketch that featured the late, great Trevor Moore.
Resident Evil, based on the extremely popular horror video game series of the same name, stars Austin Abrams (Euphoria, Weapons) as a medical courier who is in the process of making a delivery to Raccoon City General Hospital when an outbreak forces him to fight for his life. Cregger directs from a screenplay he penned with frequent Zack Snyder collaborator Shay Hatten. Zach Cherry, Kali Reis, and Paul Walter Hauser also star.
Resident Evil hits theaters on September 18. For more, check out our guide to upcoming horror movies, or, check out the ever-growing list of video game movies.
Det första World Athletics Ultimate Championship börjar med Ingebrigtsen och Duplantis segrar
Den första upplagan av World Athletics Ultimate Championship har startat: endast tre dagar, från 11 till 13 september i Budapest, med ett strömlinjeformat format och ett reducerat antal deltagare: endast försvarande olympiska, världsmästare och diamantligamästare, resten tillåts endast enligt World Athletics Rankings.
På dag 1 vann den norska superstjärnan Jakob Ingebrigtsen herrarnas 5 000 meter på 12 minuter och 59,24 sekunder. Bara sju månader senare genomgick han en hälseneoperation. En annan stjärna, svensken Mondo Duplantis, vann stavhopp, som väntat av honom, men lyckades inte sätta nytt rekord (efter att ha satt 16 världsrekord under sin karriär), med ett hopp på 6,20 meter.
Andra vinnare på fredagen inkluderar ukrainska Yaroslava Mahuchikh, också olympisk mästare, i höjdhopp med hopp på 1,99 meter; Merlin Hummel från Tyskland vann släggkastning på 81,46 meter. Storbritannien Keely Hodgkinson, nyligen europamästare, vann semifinalen på damernas 800 meter och kvalificerade sig tillsammans med Audrey Werro eller Femke Broeders-Bol.
Genshin Impact dev HoYoverse wins $112,000 in court after AI company stole 63 of its characters' voices
Every day, another generative AI provider discovers that pretending something you stole was always yours to begin with is an idea that is fundamentally incompatible with many copyright laws. That's too bad for those generative AI providers, but, in this case, great news for Genshin Impact developer HoYoverse, which has just been awarded approximately $112,000 in a Shanghai court.
Automaton reports an unnamed "AI service provider" likewise located in Shanghai must now cough up 750,000 Chinese Yuan after wrongfully reproducing 63 Genshin Impact characters' voices. The provider was ruled to have sold AI voice packs with "nearly identical characteristics" to those gacha game characters, and it used modified images of those anime babes and boyfriends to promote its already copyright-flouting packs.
Therefore, the Pudong New Area People's Court of Shanghai decided the AI company was not only infringing on HoYoverse's in-game content, but also on its character designs. It's unjust competition, the court ordered, even though its voice packs seemed to have a much more intimate purpose than the average Genshin session – they appear to have presented slightly changed versions of Genshin characters as chatty virtual avatars.
In any case, HoYoverse has triumphed over delinquent generative AI this time around. However, its $112,000 reward is a much smaller payday than it was hoping for. The company behind Honkai: Star Rail and other anime wonders originally sued the AI company for 5 million Chinese Yuan, which totals to about $745,000, and it wanted an immediate injunction.
HoYoverse ended up with a smaller version of that punishment, but the People's Court of Shanghai also demanded the AI company immediately stop its infringing behaviors.
Recently, the AI company withdrew its appeal on this judgement, making its $112,000 payment inevitable. Hopefully Grok can explain to it what went wrong.
Why so many game developers don't want to use generative AI.
Jakob Ingebrigtsen blows away bitter rival Hocker in Ultimate Championships 5,000m
Norwegian leaves rival Hocker trailing to claim $150,000
Briton Jazmin Sawyers second in the women’s long jump
It is a scene that has become gloriously familiar down the years. Jakob Ingebrigtsen leaving the world’s best athletes gasping in his slipstream, holding one imperious finger in the air, revelling in his athletic genius. But this victory over 5,000m at the inaugural Ultimate Championships carried extra sweetness – and spice.
The sweetness? That came from winning a mammoth first prize of $150,000 after an achilles injury he feared might derail his career. And the spice? Well, that was provided by the way Ingebrigtsen utterly obliterated his great American rival Cole Hocker, a man he had branded a “coward” just a week ago.
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