TechCrunch Tuesday November 22, 2022
Google Lens is being added to the Google homepage, allowing users access the AI image recognition tool directly from the search box, notes TechCrunch. Google first announced Lens at in 2017 and has since integrated it into several of its services, including Google Photos and Chrome. The change is significant, according to Rajan Patel, a vice president of engineering at Google, who noted that the company wanted to expand the way users can ask questions. "Now you can ask visual questions easily from your desktop,” he noted.
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The Guardian Tuesday November 22, 2022
Shelter isn’t what it used to be: The shortlist for the 10th edition of the Architectural Photography Awards has been announced, featuring images of everything from undulating interiors in Milan to a mirrored vista in New York City, a stone chapel in Chengde, China, and a geothermal power plant in Tuscany. The contest’s judges were asked to look beyond the architecture, and to consider composition, use of scale and the photographers’ sensitivity to atmosphere, notes the Guardian, which features a portfolio of the nominated work.
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ARTnews Tuesday November 22, 2022
Anonymous Was a Woman, a grant-making organization founded by Susan Unterberg, has revealed the 2022 winners of its grants, which go to women-identifying artists over the age of 40 who are at “a critical junction in their career.” Each of the 15 winners will receive $25,000. Among the recipients: Wendy Red Star, an Apsáalooke contemporary multimedia artist who explores her cultural heritage through photographer, sculpture and video; African American photographer and jewelry designer Coreen Simpson; New York-based photographer and video artist Ka-Man Tse; and photographer and sculptor Leslie Hewitt.
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David Schonauer Tuesday November 22, 2022
It's been weird at Twitter since Elon Musk bought the company and took it private. First he fired a lot of people, more or less turning Twitter into a shell of what it was by laying off about half the
workforce. Then Twitter began asking some people to come back. With users and advertisers thinking about bailing, a number of Twitter alternatives have stepped … Read the full Story >>
