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Nik Collection 6.3 – The end of a six-year journey to rewrite Google’s code
Aug 30, 2023
John Aldred
It’s a milestone version release of the Nik Collection for DxO software today. They acquired Nik Collection from Google in 2017 and immediately set about…
Beware of this elaborate scam targeting Behance users
Aug 29, 2023
Dunja Đuđić Kalinin
If you’re using Adobe’s excellent platform Behance, beware – there’s an elaborate scam going around. It targets Behance users, involving people posing as recruiters for…
ESPN camera lens shattered during Little League game
Aug 29, 2023
Alex Baker
Wrong place, wrong time. At least it was if you were the ESPN camera operator at this Little League baseball game! A foul ball during…
Ideogram takes on DALL-E and Midjourney with its own text-to-image generator
Aug 28, 2023
Dunja Đuđić Kalinin
Toronto-based AI startup Ideogram has officially launched its platform. The company specializes in generative text-to-image technology, so this is yet another text-to-image generator and competition…
Another baby dolphin dies for the sake of a selfie
Aug 25, 2023
Alex Baker
A baby dolphin is believed to have died after a man held it out of water for a selfie. The man lifted the young dolphin…
Aputure acquires Prolycht (and its RGBLAC technology)
Aug 24, 2023
John Aldred
Lighting manufacturer Aputure has acquired fellow lighting manufacturer Prolycht. Aputure describes the acquisition as a “strategic union” that will “fortify Aputure’s legacy” in film and…
Ilford announces new 54-shot Ilfocolor Rapid Half Frame disposable camera
Aug 23, 2023
John Aldred
With all the talk of people turning disposable camera lenses into mirrorless lenses lately, it seems disposable camera demand is on the rise. Answering the…
Western Digital issues firmware update for dying SanDisk SSDs
Aug 23, 2023
John Aldred
Western Digital’s been having a bit of a tough time of late with its SanDisk brand. Several of the company’s SanDisk SSDs have been dying…
AI images of Paris drowning under garbage go viral
Aug 23, 2023
Alex Baker
A series of AI-generated images falsely portraying Paris submerged under heaps of garbage has gone viral. The pictures were shared through a TikTok video that…
Farmers asking visitors to stop taking nude photos in their sunflower field
Aug 23, 2023
Dunja Đuđić Kalinin
When in bloom, sunflower fields attract more Instagrammers than insects. Some of them overstep their boundaries, so the owners of a sunflower farm in the…