People Friday September 20, 2024
Authorities have released the first photo of what remained of the Titan submersible on the floor of the North Atlantic after it imploded last summer while on its way to see the Titanic wreck. The image, which features the vessel's tail cone embedded into the seabed more than 12,000 feet below the surface, was presented by U.S. Coast Guard officials on Sept. 16, notes People. The photographic evidence, from a remotely operated vehicle, led to "conclusive evidence of a catastrophic loss" of the Titan and the death of its five passengers, officials said.
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THE VERGE Friday September 20, 2024
Will TikTok Be Banned in January? The future of the app used by 170 million Americans now rests in the hands of three federal judges, and The Verge says it has already had a hard day in court. TikTok and its Chinese parent company, ByteDance, have been under scrutiny from U.S. lawmakers and intelligence officials for the app’s ties to China. TikTok sued to block a law signed in April requiring ByteDance to either sell the app to a non-Chinese owner or face a ban, notes The New York Times. But when company made its case in oral arguments on Monday judges expressed “a great deal of skepticism toward TikTok’s case,” notes TV.
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David Schonauer Friday September 20, 2024
For three decades, a famously fierce portrait of Sir Winston Churchill by photographer Yousuf Karsh hung on the walls of the Fairmont Chateau Laurier hotel in Ottawa, Canada. But in 2022 it was
discovered that the iconic photo had been replaced with a decoy--a poor inkjet copy of the print with an ineptly forged signature of Karsh, left behind by a thief. Now, Churchill's … Read the full Story >>
The New York Times Thursday September 19, 2024
Charles Biasiny-Rivera, a street photographer who illuminated life in the New York City’s barrios and helped to found the photo collective En Foco, bringing recognition to other Hispanic photographers, died on Aug. 10 at his home in Olivebridge, N.Y., a hamlet in the Catskill Mountains. He was 93, reports The New York Times. Biasiny-Rivera served as En Foco’s executive director for more than three decades; over the years the collective grew into a nonprofit organization that supports photographers and artists from a variety of underrepresented communities.
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