The photographer who bet his business on the technology trying to replace him

SnappyFly founder Vincent Chow For most photographers watching generative AI learn to render skin, fabric and light with unsettling accuracy, the instinct has been to defend the craft. Vincent Chow, however, did the opposite. The founder of Singapore-based product photography firm SnappyFly decided that if AI was coming for his industry, he would rather be…

NTRA Tightens SIM Registration Verification with Biometric Checks via Mobile Apps

Egypt’s National Telecommunications Regulatory Authority (NTRA) has decided on Tuesday, 11 August, to tighten the procedures used to verify the identity of mobile phone line holders by accelerating the rollout of biometric verification mechanisms through mobile operator applications.  The move is intended to strengthen the SIM card registration process, reduce the risk of registering lines…

Fauci’s Covid Vaccine Miscarriage Message Enrages the Right

The release of Dr. Anthony Fauci’s personal musings, private communications, and messaging history by Senate Republicans has proved fertile ground to revive right-wing hysteria and antipathy toward the man who became the face of the nation’s Covid-19 response.  On Monday, the New York Post published an article claiming that Fauci “privately warned of miscarriage risk…