HYPERALLERGIC Monday September 19, 2022
This summer, Pennsylvania and Washington quietly became the first two states in the nation to explicitly list non-fungible tokens as digital assets subject to sales and use taxes, reports Hyperallergic. Washington published an interim statement with definitions of key terms and a proposed schema for determining the “sourcing” of NFTs, or where, for tax purposes, related transactions physically take place. The regulations are complicated, adds Art News, and enforcing them may be harder still. Tax agencies may have a difficult time determining whether the sales of digital, decentralized, placeless products like NFTs actually took place in Washington. Read the full Story >>
TechCrunch Monday September 19, 2022
We’re used to news about Facebook and Instagram copying features from other popular social media apps, including, recently, TikTok. Now it’s TikTok that is copying—not from Instagram, but BeReal, the French social app that’s been steadily gaining popularity. A new feature called “TikTok Now” mimics BeReal by sending users daily notifications to capture a picture or video using their front and back cameras. Users will have to post their daily images to see what their friends have shared, notes TechCrunch. Read the full Story >>
Digital Camera World Monday September 19, 2022
Humanity will not go down without a fight! Digital Camera World reports that the war on machines has begun, now that a photography portfolio website has banned AI-generated images from services like Midjourney and DALL-E. PurplePort, a popular portfolio and networking website for models, photographers and imaging creatives, announced a blanket ban on "100% machine-generated images" so that the platform can remain focused on "human-generated and human-focused art.” Read the full Story >>
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David Schonauer Monday September 19, 2022
The Nikkei, Japan's most prestigious financial newspaper, has reported that Nikon is exiting the DSLR market and is no longer developing new models. And, wondered DP Review recently, are we really
surprised? "The end of the DSLR as a mainstream product was clear the moment Nikon and Canon announced their respective full-frame mirrorless mounts," noted DPR. That's one of the stories in today's
roundup … Read the full Story >>
