DP Review Friday October 31, 2025
The newly launched Insta360 X4 Air is the lightest 8K 360 camera the company has released so far. Along with shedding a bit of weight from the X4 model, the new 5.8-ounce camera promises flagship-level features, with 8K 360 video and larger sensors than the X4. The X4 Air effectively sits in between the X4 and the company’s flagship X5 model, with upgrades over its namesake and both shared and downgraded specs when compared to the X5, notes DP Review. Insta360 says the biggest improvement comes from AdaptiveTone, which it describes as its "intelligent exposure algorithm.”
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David Schonauer Friday October 31, 2025
AI headshots for resumes and CVs are becoming an ever-more popular replacement for studio photography: According to recent job-market research from Canva, a design company that offers access to an AI
headshot feature, 88% of job seekers believe a polished digital presence influences hiring decisions, which is up 45% from the year before, This is in line with the general uptick in use of … Read the full Story >>
BBC Thursday October 30, 2025
When Jess Smith uploaded a photo of herself into an AI image generator this summer, she wasn't expecting a social experiment. The former Australian Paralympic swimmer wanted to vamp up her headshot and uploaded a full-length photo of her and prompted it really specifically that she was missing her left arm from below the elbow. But ChatGPT couldn't create the image she was asking for and despite various prompts, producing instead a woman with two arms or one with a metal device to represent a prosthetic. Then the BBC stepped in.
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Aperture Thursday October 30, 2025
Nikki S. Lee was a rising star in New York’s late-’90s art world—her breakout series “Projects”(1997–2001), which began as a graduate-school project and was first exhibited while she was in her twenties, saw the artist assume the guise of over a dozen of characters as she descended into different US subcultures, photographing herself amid drag queens, punks, skateboarders, and strippers. Then, notes Aperture, she walked away from her notoriety. Now she is reinventing herself in Seoul, South Korea.
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