VentureBeat Monday March 25, 2024
Stock agencies are climbing aboard the AI express train: Nvidia has announced that its Nvidia Edify multimodal generative AI model can now generate 3D content, and that it has partnered with Shutterstock and Getty Images on Edify-powered tools. Shutterstock is providing early access to an Edify-powered application that creates 3D objects for virtual scenes from text prompts and images, notes VentureBeat. Getty, meanwhile, is adding custom fine-tuning capabilities to its AI service so that enterprise customers can generate visuals adhering to brand guidelines and style Read the full Story >>
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David Schonauer Monday March 25, 2024
Photography duos are nothing new: In 1843, two Scottish artists, painter David Octavius Hill (1802-1870) and photographer Robert Adamson (1821-1848), combined their aesthetic inight and technical
knowledge to produce a body of portraits, architectural and landscapes scenes, and pioneering social documents. Two years later, they prepared an album of their finest work and sold it to the
prominent English marine painter Clarkson Frederick Stanfield. … Read the full Story >>
The New York Times Friday March 22, 2024
The US Justice Department has joined 16 states and the District of Columbia to file a significant challenge to the reach and influence of Apple, arguing in an 88-page lawsuit that the company had violated antitrust laws with practices that were intended to keep customers reliant on their iPhones and less likely to switch to a competing device. The Justice Department’s lawsuit is seeking to put an end to those practices. The government even has the right to ask for a breakup of the Silicon Valley icon, notes The New York Times.
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Digital Camera World Friday March 22, 2024
UK photography retailer Wex has a trade-in program, offering to buy photographers’ old gear and use that value against any new purchases (or receive cash). According to Wex, the camera now being turned in most often is the Fujifilm X100V. That isn’t surprising, notes Digital Camera World: The recent launch of the Fujifilm X100VI has driven secondhand prices for the X100V "sky-high." Just missing out on the top spot is the six-year-old Sony A7 III.
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