THE VERGE Friday December 15, 2023
Google has an AI problem: The parts of the company that are charged with moderating platforms (like YouTube and Search) are going to end up colliding with the parts of Google that help people create content (like Gmail and Bard), notes The Verge. Consider the Pixel 8, whose Best Take feature uses AI to let you swap facial expressions in group photos to get “perfect” shots, and YouTube, which just rolled out the first cut of an AI-generated content policy that requires “creators to disclose when they’ve created altered or synthetic content that is realistic.”
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Bob and Diane Fund Friday December 15, 2023
In 2015, photographer Helen Rimell’s mother was diagnosed with early onset vascular dementia. Rimell started documenting her relationship with her mother. “I began this project as a way of preserving her, of keeping who she was alive,” Rimell tells The Washington Post. “[There’s] no hiding from the horrors and indignities, the true face of dementia.” Rimell’s project has received this year’s Bob & Diane Fund Award, an award for work that increases the understanding of Alzheimer’s disease and dementia.
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Electronics Hub Friday December 15, 2023
While the art of photography is far from an exact science, data is available to help choose a camera that is proven to deliver inspiring images, notes Electronics Hub, which has analyzed over 1.1 million photos on Flickr, tagged under different genres like architecture, portrait, landscape, fashion, wildlife, and food, to identify which cameras produced images with the most “faves” on the platform. Coming in at first place is the Canon EOS M6 Mark II, followed by the Fujifilm X-11 and the Sony a7R II.
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David Schonauer Friday December 15, 2023
How will people be getting their cameras in the future? Perhaps they'll be leasing them like cars. As we noted this week, Panasonic Japan is already doing just that. Panasonic's new lease deal comes
with two options: a kit that combines a hand grip with a Lumix G100V or the Lumix S5 II with a 50mm f/1.8. The former costs about $20 month for … Read the full Story >>
