Bloomberg Thursday June 6, 2024
Apple is bringing the new AI features to iOS 18 and macOS 15, including features allowing users to retouch photos with AI, reports Bloomberg. The new AI features will also will improve Safari web search and automatically suggest replies to emails and text messages. The Siri personal assistant will get an upgrade as well. The modest incorporation of AI comes as Apple plays catch-up with Microsoft, Google and other companies plunging into the AI game, adds Bloomberg. The Verge has more. So does CNN.
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David Schonauer Thursday June 6, 2024
On D-Day morning, June 6, 1944, Associated Press correspondent Roger Greene waded ashore on the eastern end of the landing front. Sheltering in a bomb crater, Greene pounded out the first AP report
from the beachhead: "Hitler's Atlantic Wall cracked in the first hour under tempestuous Allied assault," he wrote. Later, he noted, "So many guys were getting killed that I stopped being afraid. … Read the full Story >>
Associated Press Wednesday June 5, 2024
Ron Edmonds, an Associated Press photographer who made Pulitzer Prize-winning images of the 1981 assassination attempt on President Ronald Reagan in Washington, D.C. and the subsequent capture of shooter John W. Hinckley Jr., died May 31 at a hospital in Falls Church, Va, reports AP. He was 77. Assigned to cover the president, Edmonds was the only news photographer able to chronicle the full sweep of events outside the Washington Hilton, from the sounds of gunshots — which Edmonds at first thought might be celebratory firecrackers — to the chaotic moments that followed.
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RM Wednesday June 5, 2024
With the rise of studio photography in the 19th-century, the portrait was liberated from provenance of the ruling class. The new book Las Mexicanas (RM) brings together a selection of studio and vernacular photographs of Mexican women from the mid-nineteenth century to the 1960s, offering what Huck calls “a revelatory look at Mexican women as they imagined themselves: proud, powerful, sensual, complex, creative, playful, mysterious, and above all: not to be trifled with.” The book comes as Mexico elects its first female president.
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