Mashable Thursday March 9, 2023
Creators only make around $0.02 and $0.04 for every 1,000 views from the TikTok Creator Fund, meaning most full-time creators make in their primary income through other sources, like promoting products, podcasting and selling Notion templates. Now, notes Mashable, TikTok is introducing a feature called Series, which puts premium content behind a paywall. One Series can include up to 80 videos, each up to 20 minutes long, giving creators more time and flexibility when filming, adds TechCrunch.
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David Schonauer Thursday March 9, 2023
Look, up in the sky! It's a bird! It's a plane! No, it's a dead bird drone! Even as the world comes to grips with artificial intelligence--for instance, the unruly Bing search engine--scientists are
reworking Mother Nature by turning taxidermied birds into Frankenstein drones. The birdbots could have some serious real-world applications, notes Popular Mechanics. They might, for instance, be used
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The New York Times Wednesday March 8, 2023
Pierre Apraxine, a self-taught connoisseur of photography who helped build one of the greatest private holdings of pictures, the Gilman Paper Company Collection, died on Feb. 26 at his home in Manhattan, reports The New York Times. He was 88. The noted collection encompassed not only the history of the medium but also the history of the industrializing, modernizing world. By acquiring the archive in 2005, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York was vaulted to the forefront of photography institutions, notes The Times.
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Vogue Wednesday March 8, 2023
Lloyd Wakefield describes the last year as “kind of mental.” The 26-year-old, who’s currently traveling the globe as Harry Styles’s "Love on Tour" photographer, was working at a grocery store in the UK not long before joining Styles. “I tend to compare myself to other people, especially photographers that I follow on Instagram, and say, Why am I not doing that? Why am I not busier?” Wakefield tells Vogue. “But perhaps that’s never-ending. I try to—it sounds quite stereotypical—enjoy the journey more.”
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