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☆ Reddit CEO says the mods leading a punishing blackout are too powerful and he will change the site's rules to weaken them
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-16 | by ( Lindsay Dodgson | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Reddit CEO Steve Huffman thinks the site's mods are too powerful. So a politician needs to be elected, and a business owner can be fired by its shareholders," he told NBC. Reddit mods hold a lot of power, and many believe it has been earned due to the amount of unpaid labor they put into the site. He told NBC it was "really important" to ensure "protests, now or in the future, are actually representative of their communities." Huffman told NBC there was no set timeline for his proposed changes.

Persons: Steve Huffman, subreddits, Reddit, Christian Selig, Huffman, We've Organizations: NBC, Ars Technica, University of Minnesota Twin Cities, Northwestern University Locations: Reddit

☆ Exclusive: Staff at top U.S. farm research center file complaint alleging unsafe work conditions
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-19 | by ( Leah Douglas | Thomson Reuters | Washington-Based Award-Winning Journalist Covering Agriculture | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +11 min

The Beltsville Agricultural Research Center (BARC) near Washington D.C. is the largest research facility owned by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) and has long been the flagship of U.S. farm research. “Our employees’ health and well-being is our top priority," a spokesperson at USDA’s Agricultural Research Service (ARS), which oversees BARC, told Reuters. STAFF CUTSFounded in 1910, the BARC facility spans nearly 7,000 acres in Prince George’s County, Maryland, near the nation’s capital. The unreliable conditions are affecting research outcomes, making it at times impossible to complete experiments or replicate their findings, said two research employees. On February 22, several BARC employees met with Thomas Shanower, the director of USDA’s Northeast Area, a division that oversees 15 research centers, including BARC.

☆ Evelyne Axell was a trailblazer of erotic pop art in the 1960s. Then she died
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-17 | by ( Jacqui Palumbo | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +7 min

CNN —Throughout Evelyne Axell’s short but radical career, the Belgian artist revered the female body in psychedelic hues rendered in gleaming enamel. In 1972, only a handful of years into painting, she died in a car crash and faded into relative obscurity. But such sales for Axell are infrequent, according to Sara Friedlander, Christie’s deputy chairman of post-war and contemporary art. Her stylistic approach — a mix of pop art influences and dreamy surrealist settings — is still underrecognized, according to Morris. “She acts as a historical bridge (between surrealism and pop art),” she said.

☆ Born of Grief, a Couple’s Off Broadway Incubator Marks 20 Years
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-08 | by ( Robin Pogrebin | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

In 2002, Jenny and Jon Steingart founded the Off Broadway incubator Ars Nova as a way of honoring Jenny’s brother, Gabriel Wiener, who in 1997 died of a brain aneurysm at the age of 26. Now, as the nonprofit theater is marking its 20th anniversary, the couple is facing another wrenching struggle: Jon has A.L.S., the severe neurological disorder also known as Lou Gehrig’s disease. “Every painful experience in my life — if I have to live through it, I am going to come out on the other side with a lesson and a way to give back in some way,” Jenny Steingart said in a recent interview at their home on the Upper West Side. “Because a loss without some meaning behind it is really hard to live with.”So this anniversary, to be celebrated with a gala on Monday, also finds the Steingarts feeling great satisfaction, having created an institution that — in the wake of the 9/11 attacks — has played a crucial role in the professional development of so many artists. Among those who have worked at Ars Nova are Lin-Manuel Miranda, Thomas Kail, Christopher Jackson and Phillipa Soo of “Hamilton” fame; Bridget Everett, the actress and cabaret performer of the acclaimed HBO series “Somebody Somewhere”; and Dave Malloy, who created “Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812” at Ars Nova.

☆ Pressing 'Print Screen' on your keyboard may do something different if you have Windows 11
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-17 | by ( Will Gendron | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

The Print Screen button on Windows computers has been associated with screen capture for decades. A new beta version of Windows 11 now opens the Snipping Tool when the Print Screen button is used. A new Microsoft Windows 11 update marks the end of an era: Using the Print Screen (PrtScn) button will no longer capture one's entire screen. Screenshots taken using the Snipping Tool will be saved to the Screenshot folder and copied to the clipboard. Accordingly, other methods of screen capture, such as the Snipping Tool, that allowed users to capture only portions of their screens.

☆ 6 Picasso Shows to See This Year
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-06 | by ( Gabe Cohn | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

Pablo Picasso’s 1921 painting “Three Women at the Spring” will be shown at the Museum of Modern Art this fall, in one of several exhibitions at American and European museums marking the 50th anniversary of the artist’s death. Credit... Estate of Pablo Picasso/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York; via The Museum of Modern Art

☆ Picasso: Love Him or Hate Him?
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-05 | by ( Deborah Solomon | April | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +14 min

It is not hugely cool to profess a love for Picasso these days. This is what Picasso’s detractors — like Hannah Gadsby, the Australian comedian and Picasso basher, who will help curate a Picasso show at the Brooklyn Museum opening on June 2 — often miss. Picasso, by contrast, brought the weight of lived experience into his work, even when he was tethered to archetypal subjects. “The Mother” (1901), an early painting by Picasso, shows a view of motherhood purged of Renaissance idealization. The conventional view of the painting holds that the women are “dolled-up cocottes,” as John Richardson glibly put it in his biography of Picasso.

☆ Apple's new AI-narrated audiobooks are supposed to be 'natural sounding' but critics say they're 'not what customers want to listen to'
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-09 | by ( Katherine Tangalakis-Lippert | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Apple quietly launched dozens of audiobooks narrated by AI-generated digital voices. The voices, "Jackson" and "Madison" narrate dozens of audiobook titles on the Books app. Critics say the voices lack nuances that humans have and aren't "what customers want to listen to." According to a statement released by Apple, the digital voices are "natural sounding" and "based on a human narrator." "The narrator brings a whole new range of art in creating audiobook, and we believe that's a powerful thing.

☆ ‘Glass Onion’: Inside the Film's Ostentatious Fake Art Collection
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-22 | by ( Esther Zuckerman | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

When Mr. Johnson saw the Rothko, titled “Number 207 (Red over Dark Blue on Dark Gray),” hanging above Miles’s sitting area, he asked for it to be flipped upside-down. University of California, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive/1998 Kate Rothko Prizel & Christopher Rothko/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

☆ It's been 50 years since the last moonwalk. NASA astronauts explain why it took so long.
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-09 | by ( Morgan Mcfall-Johnsen | Hilary Brueck | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

The 50th anniversary of the last Apollo astronaut moonwalk is Wednesday. NASA astronauts say it's taking so long to return to the moon because of politics and money. But NASA built Orion to send astronauts back into lunar orbit and, as early as 2025, link up with SpaceX's Starship to land astronauts on the moon. NASA astronaut Victor Glover visits the Space Launch System rocket inside Kennedy Space Center's Vehicle Assembly Building, on July 15, 2021. NASA/Kim ShiflettAs early as 2004, former President George Bush was setting goals to return astronauts to the moon.

☆ Lensa, the AI portrait app, has soared in popularity. But many artists question the ethics of AI art.
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-06 | by ( Morgan Sung | Morgan Sung Is A Trends Reporter For Nbc News Digital. | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +12 min

Social media has been flooded with Lensa AI portraits, from photorealistic paintings to more abstract illustrations. In a lengthy Twitter thread posted Tuesday morning, Prisma addressed concerns of AI art replacing art by actual artists. For some artists, AI models are a creative tool. While the value of art is subjective, the crux of the AI art controversy is the right to privacy. Without decades of examples to learn from, he said, the AI images that looked just like his illustrations would never exist.

☆ Amazon is offering customers $2 per month for letting the company monitor the traffic on their phones
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-05 | by ( Aaron Mok | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Under the company's new invite-only Ad Verification program, Amazon is tracking what ads participants saw, where they saw them, and the time of day they were viewed. Through the program, Amazon hopes to offer more personalized-ad experiences to customers that reflect what they have previously purchased, according to Amazon. The deal is part of the Amazon Shopper Panel, an invite-only program where select Amazon customers can earn $10 per month if they upload 10 eligible receipts from purchases made outside of Amazon. When pressed on its privacy concerns, an Amazon spokesperson referred Insider to its Shopper Panel FAQs and Amazon's privacy notice. Both the Facebook and Google programs were shut down in 2019 due to privacy concerns, The Verge and TechCrunch reported.

☆ Microsoft raised the bar for Windows PCs with its Surface computers, despite low share after a decade
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-26 | by ( Jordan Novet | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +14 min

In 2012, the Surface with Windows RT, later named Surface RT, was more than just a touchscreen slab like Apple's iPad. The inaugural Surface, the Surface RT running Windows RT, boasted clever physical attributes. Microsoft Surface with Windows 8 Pro Source: Microsoft.comIn 2013 Microsoft brought out the Surface RT's more expensive and more powerful sibling, the Surface Pro. He bought a Surface Pro 3 and then a Surface Pro 7. If someone buys the Surface Pro 7 for a good price, he'll upgrade to the Surface Pro 9, which has a larger display.

☆ Andy Warhol’s Colossal ‘Crash’ Sells for $85.4 Million at Sotheby’s
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-16 | by ( Kelly Crow | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Photo: 2022 The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc./Licensed by Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/Courtesy of Sotheby’sWhen Andy Warhol’s colossal view of a car accident first came at auction in 1987, the silk-screen sold for $660,000. On Wednesday, bidders got another chance at it—and the work resold at Sotheby’s for $85.4 million. The auction house had said it expected the piece to sell for around $80 million.

☆ NASA is evacuating its prized moon rocket from its Florida launchpad as Hurricane Ian approaches
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-26 | by ( Morgan Mcfall-Johnsen | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

NASA was poised to launch its Space Launch System moon rocket for the first time Tuesday. Hurricane Ian is forcing the agency to roll SLS into a vertical steel building for shelter. Now a major hurricane may be its last obstacle to launch. Now, NASA is rushing to return the treasured rocket to shelter from Hurricane Ian in its Vehicle Assembly Building. Hurricane Ian is brewing trouble for FloridaSatellite imagery shows Hurricane Ian at 12:21 p.m.

☆ A purchase at a small town sale turned out to be a 'priceless' de Kooning painting stolen in 1985
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-16 | by ( Monica Buchanan Pitrelli | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +8 min

On the morning of Nov. 29, 1985, a couple entered The University of Arizona Museum of Art in Tucson, Arizona. Within minutes, "Woman-Ochre" — a painting by the Dutch-American artist Willem de Kooning — was gone. The University of Arizona Museum of ArtAmong Van Auker's purchase was a painting that hung behind the couple's bedroom door, he told CNBC. Badly damagedOnce the museum took possession of the painting, Miller said, the search was on to find a conservator with the expertise required to repair it. When the painting was returned, it was in "very poor condition," said Laura Rivers, associate paintings conservator for the J. Paul Getty Museum.

☆ The Artemis I mission launches NASA's return to the moon, 50 years after the last moonwalk. Astronauts explain why it took so long.
▼ + stars: | 2022-08-27 | by ( Morgan Mcfall-Johnsen | Hilary Brueck | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

NASA is about to launch its new Space Launch System toward the moon for the first time. The rocket is designed to return astronauts to the lunar surface for the first time in more than 50 years. NASA astronauts say it's taking so long to return to the moon because of politics and money. It's not just that the Space Launch System is giant, standing taller than the Statue of Liberty. NASA/Kim ShiflettAs early as 2004, former President George Bush was setting goals to return astronauts to the moon.

☆ Jeff Bezos' knowledge of rockets blew United Launch Alliance's chief away during their initial meeting, report says
▼ + stars: | 2022-06-23 | by ( Kate Duffy | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Jeff Bezos astonished ULA boss Tory Bruno with his rocket knowledge, per The Washington Post. Bruno told The Post that Bezos was "the real deal" and wasn't faking it. Bezos' Blue Origin and Bruno's ULA agreed in 2014 to build rocket engines but delays have occurred. Bruno told the newspaper that he and Bezos "hit it off right away." Since the agreement in 2014, the relationship between Blue Origin and ULA has reportedly been rocky.

Sam Zeloof, 22, made a chip with 1,200 transistors from homemade equipment in his parents' garage. The American wants to make chips more accessible, according to Ars Technica. Zeloof has his sights set on 2,300 transistors, the number used in Intel's 1971 4004 chip which was used in things like calculators. Aware that he lacked the facilities of big production companies, Zeloof turned to books from the 1960s and 1970s for help, according to Ars Technica. This way he could see how companies used to make chips at regular workstations.

Potrivit poliției, șoferița în vârstă de 33 de ani conducea o mașină de model Renault Logan pe traseul R6 Chișinău-Bălți, în direcția or. La un moment dat, aceasta a pierdut controlul asupra conducerii, a ieșit de pe partea carosabilului și s-a tamponat într-un copac. După tamponare, automobilul s-a aprins și a ars în totalitate. În mașină se aflau trei persoane în calitate de pasageri: un bărbat de 41 de ani, o fată 14 ani și un băiat de 13 ani. Fiind supusă testării alcoolscopice, șoferița nu era în stare de ebrietate, rezultatul fiind de 0,00mg/l.

Organizations: Renault Logan Locations: Chișinău, Bălți, Orhei

☆ Două mașini au luat foc pe strada Mitropolit Dosoftei din capitală // VIDEO
▼ + stars: | 2021-07-06 | by ( ) www.jurnal.md time to read: 1 min

Sursa foto: Jurnal.mdDouă mașini au luat foc pe strada Mitropolit Dosoftei din capitală // VIDEODouă mașini au fost cuprinse de flăcări pe strada Mitropolit Dosoftei din capitală. Ofițerul de presă al Inspectoratul General pentru Situații de Urgență al MAI, Liliana Pușcașu, a declarat pentru Jurnal.md că la fața locului a intervenit un echipaj de pompieri, iar incendiul a fost localizat. Potrivit pompierilor, a ars secțiunea motorului, parbrizul și anvelopele (40%) a automobilului de model Renault Megane. Iar mașina de model Toyota Avalon, care era parcată în apropiere a fost afectată de flăcări circa 30%.

Persons: Dosoftei, Liliana Pușcașu Organizations: Renault, Toyota Avalon

☆ FOTO // Și Europa poate lua foc din cauza temperaturilor arzătoare; Care sunt țările cu cel mai mare risc la incendii
▼ + stars: | 2021-07-06 | by ( ) www.jurnal.md time to read: +7 min

Țările europene expuse riscului de incendii forestiereÎn ultimii ani, impactul incendiilor forestiere asupra oamenilor și a naturii a crescut în toată Europa. Președintele Nicos Anastasiades a declarat că a fost o zi foarte dificilă pentru țară și a promis că guvernul va oferi ajutor imediat victimelor. După 10 zile de temperaturi extreme și secetă, insula Kefalonia a fost cuprinsă sâmbătă de incendii de proporții. Deși cauza incendiilor nu a fost încă stabilită, în Sicilia există o istorie a incendiilor provocate de disputele funciare. EPA/KATIA CHRISTODOULOUepa09321433 A view of the smoke emitted by a fire in the mountains, in Larnaca region, Cyprus, 03 July 2021.

Persons: Frans Timmermans, Anastasiades Organizations: Comisia Europeană, Mediului, Pădurilor, farm, July, EPA Locations: Europa, Mediterane, Bosnia, Kosovo, Serbia, Laponia, Europa Cipru, Cipru, Nicosia, Regiunea, Israel, UE, Ciprului, Grecia, Greciei, de Sud, Tesalia, Attica, Kefalonia, Spania, Casabermeja, Malaga, Andaluzia, Italia, Siciliei, Siracuza, Catania, Sicilia, epa09322099, Larnaca, Cyprus, Limassol, and spreading, Larnaca region

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☆ Cel mai mare incendiu forestier din istoria Ciprului, soldat cu morți și zone evacuate, ar fi fost provocat
▼ + stars: | 2021-07-05 | by ( ) www.jurnal.md time to read: +1 min

Sursa foto: ProfimediaCel mai mare incendiu forestier din istoria Ciprului, soldat cu morți și zone evacuate, ar fi fost provocatPatru oameni au murit și 10 localități au fost evacuate din cauza celui mai mare incendiu de vegetație din istoria Ciprului. Vehiculul a fost găsit răsturnat și complet ars. "Este cel mai grav incendiu forestier din istoria Ciprului", a declarat directorul Departamentului Pădurilor Charalambos Alexandrou pentru televiziunea locală. Într-un mesaj pe Twitter el a spus că a fost "cel mai grav incendiu din 1974" și a promis că guvernul va oferi ajutor imediat victimelor și familiilor acestora, potrivit Digi24. Un bărbat de 67 de ani a fost reținut pentru opt zile.

Persons: Anastasiades Organizations: Uniunea Europeană Locations: Ciprului, Britanie, Grecia, Italia, Israel, Cipru

Vehiculul a fost găsit răsturnat și complet ars. „Este cel mai grav incendiu forestier din istoria Ciprului”, a declarat directorul Departamentului Pădurilor Charalambos Alexandrou pentru televiziunea locală. Într-un mesaj pe Twitter el a spus că a fost „cel mai grav incendiu din 1974” și a promis că guvernul va oferi ajutor imediat victimelor și familiilor acestora. În ajutorul Ciprului au venit deja Marea Britanie, Grecia, Italia și Israel, care au trimis pompieri și avioane specializate. Un bărbat de 67 de ani a fost reținut pentru opt zile.

Persons: Anastasiades Organizations: Uniunea Europeană Locations: Ciprului, Britanie, Grecia, Italia, Israel, Cipru

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