Reuters Thursday July 20, 2023
U.S. lawmakers are considering changes to a bill that would give the Biden administration new powers to ban TikTok. Democratic Senator Mark Warner told Reuters that $100 million worth of aggressive lobbying by the Chinese-owned video app "slowed a bit of our momentum.” Warner said lawmakers have "a proposal on a series of amendments to make it explicitly clear" and address criticisms, including that individual Americans could be impacted or that the bill represents a broad expansion of government power. In March, the Biden administration demanded TikTok's Chinese owners divest their stakes or face a U.S. ban.
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Phillips Collection Thursday July 20, 2023
The Wall Street Journal calls Frank Stewart’s photography “visual music.” As Hyperallergic notes, Stewart is perhaps best known for his jazz photography, though he has also taken images of “art, joy, love, and people’s environments in Africa and Cuba to the Caribbean and New Orleans” for three decades. The exhibition “Frank Stewart’s Nexus: An American Photographer’s Journey, 1960s to the Present,” at the Phillips Collection in Washington, DC, through Sept. 3, is his first museum retrospective.
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DP Review Thursday July 20, 2023
The newly announced Sony a6700— the company’s latest enthusiast-level APS-C mirrorless camera—uses a 26MP BSI CMOS sensor with image stabilization and can shoot 4K video at up to 120 frames per second and 11 FPS continuous shooting for stills. Sony calls the camera its highest-performing APS-C model to date, notes DIY Photography. The highly anticipated camera is worth the wait, declares PetaPixel. Meanwhile, DP Review has posted a review.
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David Schonauer Thursday July 20, 2023
Artificial intelligence thinks it knows all about you, just from the way you look. For instance, we recently noted that Danish researchers found that AI algorithms can help predict a person's
political ideology based on their facial characteristics. Apparently, AI has also some ideas about typical Americans: BuzzFeed writer Sara Thompson asked AI image generator Midjourney what a typical
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