From anime to activism: How the ‘One Piece’ pirate flag became the global emblem of Gen Z resistance

From Nepal and Jakarta to Paris and New York, the grinning skeletal image of the Jolly Roger of the Straw Hat Pirates has ...

The inside story of how Starmer has (so far) won over Trump

More than 20 Labour and Republican sources reveal how private outreach, public theatre and careful planning led to this ...
Mashable

Google Photos now uses Veo 3 to turn your favorite photos into videos with AI

Veo 3 now powers the Google Photos image-to-video feature. Credit: Thomas Fuller/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images Google Photos is updating its image-to-video feature with Veo 3, Google's ...
Scientific American

The New Frontier of AI Hacking—Could Online Images Hijack Your Computer?

A website announces, “Free celebrity wallpaper!” You browse the images. There’s Selena Gomez, Rihanna and Timothée Chalamet—but you settle on Taylor Swift. Her hair is doing that wind-machine thing ...
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Create Multiple Consistent Characters & Scenes with Runway’s Image Reference Tool

Want to create cinematic storyboards or visually consistent AI characters across scenes? In this video, we dive deep into Runway’s new image reference feature—a powerful tool that helps you maintain ...
Business Wire

Unity Game Developers Can Now Enable Direct-to-Consumer Monetization With Xsolla’s New SDK

LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Xsolla, a global commerce company helping developers launch, grow, and monetize their games, today announces the launch of an SDK for Unity that expands monetization ...
NBC DFW

New tariffs snap into effect, raising import taxes to highest level since Great Depression

After months of delays and extensions, President Donald Trump's comprehensive and sweeping tariffs slate took effect Thursday just after midnight, shifting his global trade reset into high gear.
Oklahoma's News

Ryan Walters reacts to investigations into nude image allegations

OKLAHOMA CITY (KFOR) — A criminal investigation is underway after bombshell allegations of explicit nude images played on a TV in State Superintendent Ryan Walters’ office during last week’s State ...
Beebom

YouTube Shorts Introduces AI Tools to Turn Images into Fun Videos

YouTube Shorts is getting a new image-to-video tool powered by Google's Veo 2 video generation model. There are also some new generative AI effects that can turn your doodles and selfies into fun ...
IEEE

No-Reference Image Quality Assessment via Inter-Level Adaptive Knowledge Distillation

Abstract: Compared with no-reference image quality assessment (IQA), full-reference IQA often achieves higher consistency with human subjective perception due to the reference information for ...
Penn Live

Company says it’s closing Pa. plant due to import ban on American logs into China, among other reasons

A Pennsylvania plant will cease operations this summer, citing China’s log import ban and economic challenges as key factors in the closure decision. International Timber and Veneer filed a Worker ...