Most silent films are thought to be lost forever — to things like fires, deterioration, or just because studios didn’t care very much to preserve them. But the long list of lost media just got a little shorter.
Sealed Hearts (1919), a drama directed by Ralph Ince and starring Eugene O’Brien, was recently found in a UK film collector’s basement. It’s the only copy known to exist.
Thai Food Near Me, Dentist Near Me, Notary Near Me, Plumber Near Me — businesses across the country picked names meant to outsmart Google Search. Does it actually work?
Powerful AI tools are changing how people work and play — and in the future, maybe all our AI editing will leave us with a half-true, picture perfect unreality of our lives.
My colleague Allison Johnson recently wrote about the new AI photo tools coming to the Google Pixel 8 and the philosophical questions surrounding them. Would you use these tools? How far is too far when it comes to optimizing your precious moments?
[The Atlantic]
X is now filled with contextless links to articles after Elon Musk removed headlines from link preview cards earlier this month. But some Substack links now include the headline right in the image (spotted by social media consultant Matt Navarra).
I was able to replicate it below with a newsletter I follow — it’s a good idea! So far it seems limited to Substack blogs with a custom domain, and the headline doesn’t appear in the image on other platforms like Facebook.
