TechCrunch Friday March 21, 2025
Google has expanded access to Gemini 2.0 Flash's native image-generation capabilities, making the experimental feature available to anyone using Google AI Studio. The model isn’t perfect, but it does allows no-skill photo editing, notes Ars Technica. And it could prove to be a copyright nightmare: TechCrunch reports that people are using Gemini 2.0 Flash to remove watermarks from photos, ncluding from images published by Getty Images and other well-known stock media outfits.
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David Schonauer Friday March 21, 2025
Without a clear plan, a photographer's archive can become a burden rather than a legacy, leaving heirs -- spouses, children or executors -- to navigate complex decisions about storage, access and
preservation. And as photographers try to find homes for their work, traditional archives are vanishing, especially in local journalism, noted Kira Pollack, a former editor at Time and Vanity Fair, in
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Futurism Thursday March 20, 2025
A researcher analyzing observations taken by NASA's James Webb Space Telescope says the images suggest that our entire universe is the interior of a black hole. “The findings add credence to an existing, Russian doll-like theory called ‘Schwarzschild cosmology,’ which suggests that our galaxy is trapped within a black hole, which in turn is located inside another universe,” notes Futurism. Other observed black holes could be wormholes, otherwise known as Einstein-Rosen bridges, to other universes, adds Space.com.
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npr Thursday March 20, 2025
Protests that erupted after state troopers shot and killed civil rights activist Jimmie Lee Jackson in Marion, Alabama, culminated on March 7, 1965—a day that became known as "Bloody Sunday," when activists attempted to peacefully march across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma and were confronted by law enforcement, who attacked 600 of the protesters using billy clubs and tear gas. James "Spider" Martin, a 20-something freelance journalist covered the event. Much of his restored archive is now display at The Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, notes NPR.
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