TechCrunch Tuesday August 12, 2025
YouTube has announced that it’s giving Shorts creators access to new generative AI features, including an image-to-video AI tool and new AI effects. The image to video feature lets users turn a picture from their camera roll into a six-second video, noted The Verge. Users will see a selection of suggestions that are relevant to the photo they uploaded. YouTube says the feature can be used to add movement to landscape photos, animate pictures of everyday photos, or bring group photos to life.
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Bloomberg Tuesday August 12, 2025
German cinema company Arri is looking at its options for its future at a time of mounting challenges, including a sale. The news comes shortly after Arri announced its new $55,000 Alexa 35 Xtreme cinema camera, notes Bloomberg. Since the covid pandemic and Hollywood writers strike in 2023, the film business has seen relatively fewer projects, which has harmed Arri’s business across the board, notes PetaPixel. Arri has sold what Bloomberg describes as “non-core assets" to raise cash.
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Projections Tuesday August 12, 2025
Musician and photographer Julian Lennon will be discussing his new book Life’s Fragile Moments at a special Projections event tomorrow, Wednesday, Aug. 13. Lennon’s photographic work ranges from evocative street scenes and intimate portraits to sweeping landscapes, all part of a deeply personal exploration of beauty, humanity and the world around us. He’ll also be talking about The White Feather Foundation, the organization he founded in 2007 to engage with environmental and humanitarian issues. Where: via Zoom. When: 7:00 pm, ET.
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Wonderful Machine Tuesday August 12, 2025
In December 2022, scientists at California's Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory achieved a historic milestone: a nuclear fusion reaction that generated more energy than it consumed. This
breakthrough marked a major step toward harnessing the power of the stars here on Earth. Amid this backdrop of scientific progress, Madrid-based photographer Manuel Vazquez was assigned by El Pais
Semanal to visually explore the world of nuclear … Read the full Story >>
