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Adobe goes bananas and wants to pay you for your banana photos
Oct 5, 2023
Alex Baker
Adobe Stock is asking photographers to send them photographs of bananas doing banana-type things in everyday situations. They’re on the hunt for a whopping 1,000…
Don’t forget to take your medication, now photography is available on prescription
Oct 5, 2023
Alex Baker
If you suspected that photography was good for your mental health, you’d be right! The United Kingdom has introduced a new pilot scheme which allows…
55 Years Old and Still Looking Good: How Barbie Has Changed Throughout the Years
Oct 4, 2023
Udi Tirosh
Barbie was first introduced to the world in 1959 by American toy manufacturer Mattel. Over the past five decades, she’s gone through subtle changes, specifically…
NASA’s Perseverance rover captures video of 1.2 miles tall dust devil on Mars
Oct 3, 2023
Dunja Đuđić
On August 30, 2023, NASA’s Perseverance rover captured the fascinating sight of a Martian dust devil. The video, taken by the rover’s Navcam, provides a…
Dog ‘driving’ a speeding car caught by traffic camera
Oct 3, 2023
Alex Baker
Slovakian police have slapped a fine on a car owner after a speed camera captured a dog in the driver’s seat, seemingly driving the vehicle….
AI strikes again: Image of shirtless man kicking an alligator fools the internet
Oct 3, 2023
Dunja Đuđić
As AI image generators become more advanced, it becomes increasingly difficult to tell AI from real images. So, it’s no wonder that yet another AI creation has been fooling people over the past few days. The image is downright bizarre, showing a half-naked man kicking an alligator in the face. It spread like wildfire, with some folks turning it into a meme and some wondering – is this thing real?
Apple says it will fix iPhone 15 Pro overheating problems
Oct 3, 2023
Alex Baker
Apple has acknowledged that there are overheating issues with its new iPhone 15 Pro and Pro Max models. Several users have reported their phones running…
Your public Instagram and Facebook posts trained Meta’s AI assistant
Oct 2, 2023
Alex Baker
Meta has revealed that it used public posts from Facebook and Instagram to train its new Meta AI virtual assistant. In a move to retain…
OpenAI lets artists opt out of AI training data – but there’s a catch
Oct 2, 2023
Dunja Đuđić
Many artists have complained about tech giants using their work to train AI models. Some, including writer George R. R. Martin, have even filed lawsuits against OpenAI, Stability AI, and other companies for using their work for these purposes without permission. OpenAI is now offering a chance to artists to remove their creative works from being used in the training data of DALL-E 3, the company’s newest image generator. But there’s a catch: the process is so detailed, complicated, and time-consuming, that artists have called it “enraging.”
AI-version of Tom Hanks used in dental ad without permission
Oct 2, 2023
Alex Baker
Tom Hanks has issued a warning on Instagram about a dental plan advertisement that appears to feature him. Hanks clarified that the video is entirely…