Alex Dobrenko

💻🔥 Did Elon Musk call Twitter a “flaming dumpster rolling down the street?” Yes. Do the platform’s advertisers agree? It appears so (for the moment at least).

☝️ Tyrannosaurus Rex may have kept its teeth hidden behind lip-like tissue, according to a new peer-reviewed study published yesterday in Science.

🍿🤝 Amazon might buy... AMC Theatres? A deep dive into history of studios owning (and not being allowed to own) movie theaters -->

☝️ You’re looking at some of the winners of the Smithsonian Magazine’s 20th Annual Photo Contest; this year’s competition featured a total of 33,000 images submitted by 7,000 photographers from 190 different countries. Click to see other stories you should know for today.

✍️💰 Substack is raising money...from its own writers? What’s behind the company’s new $2 million community fundraising round... -->

☝️ You’re looking at some of the best photos taken last year by spacecraft on or around Mars, as rated by Gizmodo.

👼 Is the Pope wearing Balenciaga? No, but this AI-generated image that went viral last weekend sure made people think so...

☝️ Scientists have retracted a 2021 study documenting a “rare goblin shark” that reportedly washed up on a Greek beach (image A), after other researchers raised doubts about the findings – including the possibility that it could have been a plastic toy. Clickfor more stories you should know for today.

☝️ Astrophotographers Andrew McCarthy and Jason Guenzel recently published this 140-megapixel picture of the Sun, which they stitched together from 90,000+ individual images.

🍏🍿 Apple is reportedly planning to invest $1 billion/year into releasing 12-15 movies theatrically, each for at least a month. Movie theaters + the biggest tech company in the world: are we witnessing – to steal a line from Casablanca – “the beginning of a beautiful friendship” ?

☝️ You’re looking at a series of hyper-realistic animal portraits created by Spanish artist Andoni Bastarrika, who used a combination of beach sand, colored stone powder, and other tools when necessary. Click to see more stories you should know for today.

🤖🎬 In its first bargaining session with the studios on Monday, the Writer’s Guild of America proposed that AI chatbots cannot receive credit for any contribution made during the screenwriting process.

☝️ The oldest and most complete Hebrew Bible has been placed on display in the Israeli city of Tel Aviv before its sale at an auction in May.

🚫🏫 Schools were closed across LA yesterday, as more than 30,000 bus drivers, custodians, cafeteria workers, special education assistants, and other school workers walked off the job.

☝️ The winners of the 2022 World Nature Photography Awards were announced last week. Click to see more stories you should know for today.

📚⚖️ Oral arguments were held yesterday in Hatchett v. Internet Archive, a potentially watershed case for fair use and copyright law in the US that’s all. about. books.

☝️ You’re looking at some of the winners from the 12th annual Mobile Photography Awards; the contest is the longest-running international competition open exclusively to photos shot and edited on mobile phones. Click to see more stories you should know for today.

🚫📲 The FCC approved new regulations requiring telecom companies to block spam text messages, citing a spike in consumer complaints.

☝️ In honor of International Day of Happiness, which is today, NPR asked photographers around the world to send in photos that best-captured instances of gratitude and kindness in 2023. Click to see more stories you should know for today.