THE VERGE Friday January 20, 2023
Apple has announced new 14- and 16-inch MacBook Pros, featuring its latest M2 Pro and Max chips, notes The Verge. Apple claims the MacBook Pro with M2 Pro “is able to process images in Adobe Photoshop up to 40 percent faster than with M1 Pro, and as much as 80 percent faster than MacBook Pro with an Intel Core i9 processor” and that the M2 Max is up to 30 percent faster than the M1 Max in graphics and can apparently “tackle graphics-intensive projects that competing systems can’t even run.”
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CNN Friday January 20, 2023
About 53 million adults in the United States were unpaid family caregivers in 2020, up from 43.5 million in 2015, according to a report by the National Alliance for Caregiving and AARP. Around half of those were caring for a parental figure, notes CNN, which recently published a story about the dramatic role reversal such caregivers face. The story features photographs by Anna Rathkopf, who found herself caring for her own mother in 2021. “It's really hard to see your parents aging. It's not fun, because they're not supposed to age,” Rathkopf says.
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PetaPixel Friday January 20, 2023
Flickr is planning to let photographers sell prints through a new Print Shop, notes PetaPixel. While photographers have been able to purchase their own prints through Flickr in the past, now the website is going to allow select photographers to use the platform as a storefront to sell them to anyone. The option to sell prints through the Flickr Print Shop will be available only to certain photographers who fit the website’s criteria. There is a form that photographers can fill out if they wish to become a future seller, but candidates must be Flickr Pro members and must live in the U.S.
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David Schonauer Friday January 20, 2023
Over the past year, many in the art community have objected to the use of their work to train AI art generators. Whether or not these systems infringe on copyright law is a complicated question--one
destined to be answered in the courts. This week we noted that three artists have filed a lawsuit claiming that AI art tools violate copyright law by scraping artists' … Read the full Story >>
