Irish Independent Monday July 17, 2023
In a wild sequence during the final qualifier for this year’s British Open at West Lancashire Golf Club, golfer Sergio Garcia had short put for birdie on the 528-yard par-5 16th, only to back off after being disturbed by a photographer, notes the Irish Independent. He then missed the putt and snapped at the photographer, saying, “D***! As if it’s not frickin’ hard enough.” Two holes later, Garcia’s bid to play in a 26th-straight Open fell short, adds Golf.com: He finished at six-under over the 36-hole event, three shots away from the qualifying score.
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PetaPixel Monday July 17, 2023
Photographer Steven Haining and model Ciara Antoski together set the record for the deepest photo shoot ever recorded when the two of them and a team of professionals completed a shoot 32 feet below the surface near Tobermory, Ontario, Canada, reports PetaPixel. The idea for the photo shoot, which took place last year, and was born during the COVID-19 pandemic. “I was already diving and messing around with underwater portraiture in pools and controlled environments when the lockdowns and business shutdowns happened,” Haining says.
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engadget Monday July 17, 2023
Google has updated its privacy policy to state that it can use publicly available data to help train its AI models, notes Engadget. The company recently changed the wording to state that it could use publicly available information to build not just features, but full products like "Google Translate, Bard, and Cloud AI capabilities." Previously, the policy stated only that publicly available information could be used to help train Google "language models" and gave a single mention of Google Translate, adds Mashable.
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HYPERALLERGIC Monday July 17, 2023
The exhibition “Flash Points: The Photography of Ernest Withers,” on view at the Arts & Recreation Center in Opa-locka, Florida, through August 31, showcases Withers’s work from the Civil Rights movement and his work documenting musicians for Stax Records in Memphis. The exhibition explores “the cognitive character of Black struggle” through Withers’ politics of creation as a Black photographer in he American South, notes the Center. Withers also lived a secret life as an informant for the FBI from at least 1968, adds Hyperallergic.
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