LiveScience Thursday January 30, 2025
Chinese artificial intelligence company DeepSeek sent shock waves through the tech industry and the stock market with the release of its chatbot DeepSeek-V3, which overtook ChatGPT to become the most downloaded free app in Apple's U.S. App Store. Now. notes LiveScience, DeepSeek has unveiled a new image generator that it says beat OpenAI's DALL-E 3 and Stability AI's Stable Diffusion in benchmark tests. The new model, Janus-Pro-7B, is an upgrade over Janus, which was launched late last year. Artificial Analysis, which compares the performance of different AI models, has yet to independently rank Janus-Pro-7B. See also: Reuters.
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Bronx Documentary Center Thursday January 30, 2025
In September of 2024, The Washington Post reported that there have been 417 school shootings since 1999. Children, The Post also determined, are responsible for more than half the country’s school shootings — none of which would be possible if those children didn’t have access to firearms, notes the Bronx Documentary Center, where the exhibition “School Shootings in America” runs from Feb. 7 to March 16. Work by Tamir Kalifa, Zackary Canepari, and Callaghan O’Hare will be on view.
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Digital Camera World Thursday January 30, 2025
Kodak has reopened its film manufacturing factory after a planned shutdown to improve its manufacturing equipment, notes Digital Camera World. The update was needed because film demand has doubled in the last five years, the company says. Kodak Chief Technical Officer Terry Taber said that the upgrade had been in the plans for more than a year and that the company had stockpiled film to cover the lapse in production while the upgrades were taking place. He credited that growth in film sales to disposable film camera use by Millennials and Gen X.
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Surfer Thursday January 30, 2025
When the waves at Pipeline get big–Hawaiian big–there’s so much energy in the water that everyone’s afraid, but, notes Surfer magazine, photographer Christa Funk is “probably the person who shoots it the most, especially on the big days.” Funk is the focus of the new documentary First In, Last out, which tells the story of her journey from being a competitive swimmer in Colorado to joining the Coast Guard and then to her determined rise through the ranks of shooting surfing on its grandest stage, Oahu’s North Shore.
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