Second Trump Extension Gives ByteDance Another 75 Days to Sell TikTok

TikTok users and the company itself will be pleased to hear that United States President Donald Trump has given TikTok parent company ByteDance a second extension to the deadline requiring the company to divest its U.S. operations.

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The Sony a1 II Shortage Worsens as Amazon Cancels Pre-Orders

Up until last week, Amazon was accepting pre-orders for the next round of Sony a1 II that were slated to be delivered by mid-May. Yesterday, the online retailer canceled all orders for the camera, telling customers that it was doing so "due to a lack of availability."

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Ancient 11.7-Billion-Year-Old Spiral Galaxy Is Five Times More Massive Than the Milky Way

An international team of astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) located a gargantuan spiral galaxy located about 11.7 billion light-years away. This colossal spiral galaxy, aptly nicknamed "Big Wheel," is about five times more massive than the Milky Way galaxy.

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The Piranha Plant, Frequent Mario Foe, Is Now a USB-C Camera for Switch 2

During this week's Nintendo Direct, the popular video game company unveiled many new features of its upcoming Nintendo Switch 2 gaming console, including that it will use the maligned SD Express memory card format and work with many USB-C cameras, not just the official Nintendo one the company will sell as an optional accessory. This has opened the gates for some fun new USB-C cameras, including Hori's adorable licensed Piranha Plant one.

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Photographer Nigel Danson Embraces the Beauty of Local Landscapes and You Should Too

Photographer Nigel Danson's newest book, Close to Calm, celebrates the beauty in the local landscapes photographers too often overlook in pursuit of a far-flung location halfway around the globe. Oftentimes, the best photos aren't thousands of miles away in a famous locale, they are right in a photographer's backyard.

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How Disney’s Multiplane Camera Achieved the Illusion of Depth

For this week's edition of Historical Friday, we're going to take a look at Disney's revolutionary multiplane camera system which was used for incredible effect in classic movies like Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937), Pinocchio (1940), and Bambi (1942).

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Midjourney V7 Launches With ‘Draft Mode’ That Costs Less

Midjourney has released a new version of its AI image generator, V7, which is its "smartest, most beautiful, most coherent model yet."

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H&M Starts Rolling Out AI Clones for Modeling, Photographers Not Happy

Clothing retailer H&M is making AI clones for 30 of its models and will start posting AI-generated fashion images to social media and including them in marketing campaigns.

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Biden ‘Opted for Photo Shoot With Annie Leibovitz Rather Than Critical Meeting’

A new book has revealed that after President Biden's disastrous televised debate with Donald Trump, he flew for a photo shoot with Annie Leibovitz rather than meeting with the Congressional Progressive Caucus.

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Customizable Storybooks for Children Aim to Make Reading More Personal

Peek-A-Photo LLC, founded by San Diego mom and entrepreneur Maribel Angulo Bender, announced innovative photography storybooks for children.

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