AP Wednesday July 31, 2024
The Justice Department is accusing TikTok of collecting information about how US users view divisive social issues like gun control, abortion and religion, reports Associated Press. Government lawyers say TikTok employees used an internal web-suite system called Lark to send sensitive data about US users to its Beijing-based parent company ByteDance. In April, President Joe Biden signed into law a bill forcing TikTok to divest from ByteDance or face a nationwide ban in the US. TikTok has sued the US government to block the law.
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Sara Oscar Wednesday July 31, 2024
Since last year, Sara Oscar, a senior lecturer at the University of Technology in Sydney,, has been working on a project with her Thai mother, who migrated to Australia in 1974 while pregnant with
her. "There are no photographs of this significant event. As a reparative act to fill in the gaps of our family archive, I used a generative AI platform to create … Read the full Story >>
USA Today Tuesday July 30, 2024
Brazilian surfer Gabriel Medina scored a mere 9.90 during a ride Monday at the Olympic competition in Tahiti. But photographer Jerome Brouillet’s image of Medina and his tethered board appearing to perform parallel levitations above the waves has been deemed a perfect 10 by the internet, notes USA Today. The photo “told a striking tale of the Olympics’ competitive spirit,” added The Washington Post. “I was not surprised about that, I was prepared,” said Brouillet, who has been shooting surfing and other sports for most of a decade.
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STAB Tuesday July 30, 2024
In 2022, Hayden Garfield, then 19, noticed a bump on his shin, The Santa Barbara, California, teen was just at the verge of career of a promising career as a surf photographer, but his worries were allayed when doctors pronounced the bump benign. A year later, he learned he had a rare bone cancer. He underwent surgery to remove and replace a piece of his shin bone and continued with other treatments paid for with a GoFundMe campaign. Now, notes Stab, he is now able to walk and is expected to make a full recovery.
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