Sometimes when you break something, you have to buy it. Elon Musk bought Twitter and then broke it. Ever since Musk took control of Twitter and started messing with it, advertisers have been fleeing the platform, while unhappy users began looking around for alternatives. Mastodon was trending for a while, though there were complaints it was too complicated. More recently people were flocking to … Read the full Story >>
This must officially mark the end of an era: The New York Times’s Wirecutter section (a consumer guide) recommends that its readers not buy DSLRs. “If you’re shopping for a new camera today, you should buy a mirrorless camera instead. That’s because digital single-lens reflex cameras are going away, and at the same time, the newest and most innovative features are appearing in mirrorless models,” writes Phil Ryan. Happily, he notes, you can get adapters to put your DSLR lenses on mirrorless models. Read the full Story >>
“We see what is going on in the world through the eyes of others,” says Weiyi Li, one of ten Chinese photographers nominated for the Discovery Award at this year’s Jimei x Arles International Photo Festival, the sister fair to the photography festival in Arles, France. AnOther spotlights five of the artists from the festival, including London-based photographer Greg Lin Jiajie, the Brazilian photography duo Gal Cipreste Marinelli and Rodrigo Masina Pinheiro, and Weiyi Li. Read the full Story >>
Photo editing app Lensa grew massively popular recently as social media has become flooded with people posting AI-generated selfies from the app’s latest feature. For $3.99, Lensa users can upload 10 to 20 images of themselves and then receive 50 selfies generated by the app’s artificial intelligence in a variety of art styles. But there’s a catch, warns Art News: Lensa’s terms of use stipulate that the images users submit to generate their selfies—or rather their “Face Data”—can be used by Prisma AI, the company behind Lensa, to further train the AI’s neural network. Read the full Story >>
