DIYPhotography Friday November 11, 2022
OpenAI has made text-to-image image generator DALL-E’s API available to everyone, meaning that developers can integrate the generator straight into their apps and products, notes DIY Photography. The company has added a new building block that developers can use to create new experiences and applications.“As our research evolves, we will continue to bring the state of the art into the API, including advances in image quality, latency, scalability, and usability,” OpenAI noted.
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David Schonauer Friday November 11, 2022
More Australians than ever before are dying after accidentally falling from cliffs, and selfies are possibly the blame. According to a recent study, Australia has reached the highest number of
selfie-related deaths in the past decade. The Australian Bureau of Statistics says that 3,747 people died from accidental falls in 2021, capping a rising trend over the past ten years. "Deaths due to
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Forbes Thursday November 10, 2022
Photographer Scott Burton of Oxford, Miss. was not charging sales tax on his wedding packages as a favor to clients. The state, however, said he should and assessed him $65,597. The Mississippi Supreme Court ruled in Oct., however, that Burton does not have to pay. This is probably a case of legislation not keeping up with changes in technology, notes Forbes: The Mississippi sales tax is on tangible personal property. Tangible means something you can touch and feel. Apparently, the court felt that digital photos did not fit that criteria.
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AnOther Thursday November 10, 2022
“We were there on the 1st of January and we were still there, dancing away at midnight on 31st December,” says Martin Parr, recalling the entirely of 1992, which he spent documenting Chew Stoke, a small village in Somerset, England. Parr’s images of the quirky community were initially published in The Telegraph Magazine in 1993; now, notes AnOther, his photographs – as well as text from the original article – are the subject of a new monograph, A Year in the life of Chew Stoke Village. Parr says he recorded the village’s “full cycle of life.”
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