Alpine Magazine Friday December 16, 2022
As we noted recently, the photographer behind viral photos of snow leopards in the Himalayas admitted they were composite images. Now it has been revealed that the images Kittiya Pawlowski claimed to have made were actually taken by a French wildlife photographer. Alpine Magazine reports that Pawlowski used Sylvain Cordier’s photos of snow leopards in Mongolia’s Altai Mountains, far from the peaks of the Himalaya, to construct the images she later claimed as her own.
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DP Review Friday December 16, 2022
Apple will introduce advanced security features aimed at protecting threats to cloud-based user data, including Advanced Data Protection for iCloud. The feature uses end-to-end encryption to provide what Apple calls its “highest level of cloud data security” for iCloud data, including iCloud Backup, Photos, and Notes, motes DP Review. That means content is protected even if there's a data breach. Data will also be shielded from request from government authorities. With end-to-end encryption, Apple wouldn’t have the means to unlock the encrypted iCloud backups, even if presented with a warrant.
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David Schonauer Friday December 16, 2022
AI-powered photo editing apps are all the rage now, thanks to Lensa AI. The app, which has been around since 2018, offers standard tools allowing users to remove objects from photos, remove blemishes
from selfies, and change backgrounds. But its popularity soared after it introduced its Magic Avatar feature, which lets users turn their selfies into styled images with fantasy themes. Now other
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ARTnews Thursday December 15, 2022
In 2018, billionaire Japanese entrepreneur and art collector Yusaku Maezawa purchased all the seats aboard the first civilian mission to the moon, scheduled to take place next year on a SpaceX Starship rocket. Now Maezawa has revealed who will going. The passenger list includes several artists, including BIGBANG rapper T.O.P. and superstar DJ Steve Aoki, notes Art News, as well as Karim Iliya, a wildlife photographer based in Iceland, and Rhiannon Adam, an Irish photographic artist based in London.
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