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The Associated Press will sell its photography as NFTs

TechSpot

Pulitzer Prize-winning images will also be available to purchase as rare drops that take place once every two weeks. These photos will have increased scarcity to preserve their status and may be limited to the market’s most active collectors, we’re told.

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The Apple MagSafe Duo charger is overpriced and under-delivers

The Verge

It looks nice when it comes out of the box, but it’s made by press-molding the two sides together. You have to press down on the charger to remove the iPhone. You have to press down a little on the pad because the magnets are stronger than the force of gravity on the mass of this dock. Photography by Dieter Bohn / The Verge.

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Sony Xperia 5 II review: the right tool for the right jobs

The Verge

Given Sony’s photography ambitions for the 5 II, I’ll allow it the physical shutter control, but the Google Assistant button feels unnecessary — especially in a position that’s too low to be convenient to press. Sony’s approach to smartphone photography is twofold. The pro photography mode gives you a wealth of controls.

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Nvidia’s $40 billion Arm acquisition is about bringing AI down from the cloud

The Verge

But if you listened to the press babble coming from the two companies over the last 24 hours, you’d think there was only one factor driving the purchase: artificial intelligence. “AI It’s the automation of automation, where software writes software,” Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang told journalists during a press call this morning.

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Disney Streaming’s new CTO is a former Google exec who worked on the tech behind YouTube

The Verge

Image: Google/Weinberg-Clark Photography. According to a press release announcing the hire, while there he worked on compression tech for audio and video and streaming protocols that are used for YouTube and Chrome. He’s also worked on spatial experiences and reportedly had a hand in leading Google’s Android VR efforts.

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AI-powered photo stock startup Wirestock lands partnership with Getty Images

TechCrunch

It supports photography, of course, but also offers video footage and vector art distribution. Ironically, Wirestock didn’t provide a photo to go with this article at the time TechCrunch went to press, so the featured image on this post is one of the strangest stock photos I’ve ever taken myself. .

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Microsoft’s new image-captioning AI will help accessibility in Word, Outlook, and beyond

The Verge

“Ideally, everyone would include alt text for all images in documents, on the web, in social media — as this enables people who are blind to access the content and participate in the conversation,” said Saqib Shaikh, a software engineering manager with Microsoft’s AI team in a press statement. But, alas, people don’t.

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