Futurism Monday December 30, 2024
Apple Intelligence, the iPhone-maker's feature-packed stab at AI integration into its devices, appears to be a total dud with buyers, according to a new survey conducted by online smartphone marketplace SellCell. In a poll of over 1,000 iPhone owners with models built with AI hardware — the iPhone 16 series, iPhone 15 Pro, and iPhone 15 Pro Max — only 41.6 percent said they'd bothered to even try the new Apple Intelligence features. And among that minority, an overwhelming 73 percent of them reported that the AI tools were either "not very valuable" or that they "add little to no value" to their smartphone experience, notes Futurism.
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The New York Times Monday December 30, 2024
More than 225,000 migrants have arrived in New York since 2022, when Gov. Greg Abbott of Texas began sending busloads of migrants who had crossed the southern border to cities in other states. Two New York Times photographers, Luis Ferré-Sadurní, who covers immigration, and Todd Heisler, who looks for ways to personalize big stories — spent months documenting shelters in New York City through the eyes of those who live there. "We wanted to reflect the diversity of places that people were coming from,” says Heisler.
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PetaPixel Monday December 30, 2024
After recently unveiling its new impressive Reflection Removal tool for Adobe Camera Raw and suffering a plunge in its stock price, Adobe is previewing its photography app plans for 2025, including a price hike arriving next month. The company’s Photography (20GB) plan, which includes Photoshop, Lightroom Classic, and Lightroom, is increasing from $9.99 monthly to $14.99 per month — with an annual commitment, notes PetaPixel. The pre-paid annual fee of $119.88 is staying the same.
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David Schonauer Monday December 30, 2024
The past year saw a number of significant developments - in photographic technology, certainly, but also in the worlds of publishing and fine art. This fall PPD noted that Mark Zuckerberg's Meta
unveiled its first pair of augmented reality (AR) glasses, called Orion, which, Zuckerberg predicted, would at last jump start the metaverse. Meanwhile, Apple's new iOS18.1 featured AI capabilities
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