The stock image company has had deals to let OpenAI, Meta, Google, and Amazon train on its images, Reuters wrote yesterday while reporting that Apple got in on the action.
Each of the deals reportedly initially ranged from $25 million to $50 million, but Shutterstock’s CEO, Jarrod Yahes, told the outlet most companies expanded them later.
281 miles, apparently, at least when it comes to the $558,700 2024 Rolls-Royce Spectre trim that Edmunds tested.
That’s a little better than the “up to” 260 miles the company said the car would get when it was announced in 2022, at least.
The Meta Quest game, which is $19.99 and available to preorder, puts you in charge of stuff like scrubbing toilets and plucking chewed gum in a 1993 laundromat. Yum!
The goal is to transform it into a fully-fledged arcade. Based on my childhood obsession with games and how awful I was at them, this laundromat would have been a very expensive three hours of my mom’s Saturday.
In 1973, scientists intercepted the leading edge of a total eclipse’s shadow in a Concorde jet over Mauritania and flew with it for 74 minutes straight to study the sun’s corona. I have two videos for you.
One, an 8-minute video from the Primal Space YouTube channel, shows the flight modeled in 3D. Embedded below, Airways Magazine shows actual footage.
Android Authority’s Mishaal Rahman offers a look at the upcoming rejiggering of Android 15 in desktop mode. Rahman says it’s still lacking in good keyboard shortcuts for window management and that a lot of apps still don’t support drag-and-drop, but it does support multiple windows and even lets you resize them. Small victories.
Right now, it looks a little like using an iPad with Stage Manager turned on. Merry Dexmas, indeed.
In the fediverse, that is. Petition e-4769, which so far only has 850 signatures, cites the “considerable controversy, harassment, misinformation, and strife” of corporate-run social media in asking the government to use open-source alternatives like ActivityPub, the social protocol used by Mastodon (and which US President Biden is now posting into... from Threads), for communication, instead.
The petition is sponsored by Parliament Member Gord Johns, and closes on April 21st.
[www.ourcommons.ca]
