A recent change sees YouTube further cracking down on AI slop by clarifying its policies around how content on its platform can be monetized. To discourage creators from using AI and other tools to make low-quality content, YouTube’s policy now explains that there are three types of videos under the broader category of “inauthentic content” that cannot be monetized.
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This nose-to-lens giraffe photograph earned a major award for its dramatic camera phone perspective
July 21, 2026
There’s a particular kind of photograph that only a curious animal and a very wide-angle lens can produce together.
German photographer Marcel Ohneberger’s giraffe portrait is exactly that: an enormous, looming head fills most of the frame, its neck curving away…
Beta Pictoris, located about 63 light-years away from Earth, is one of the most photographed planetary systems outside of our own – yet despite all the data coming from that part of the sky, a faint planet remained hidden. After researchers noted a bright spot in new…
I can still remember the first time that, standing with a camera around my neck and aching feet, one of the members of the bridal party told me that I had done a great job. I must have looked confused. The wedding wasn’t even over yet, the photographs had yet to leave my camera – how did she know my photographs weren’t terrible?
The bridesmaid wasn’t complimenting my photographs; she was…
The latest dumb, hypocritical “idea” to come out of the idiot running the US into the ground could actually set the precedent we need to solve climate change. Hear me out for a minute.
Right now, much of the east and midwest US is shrouded in smoke due to wildfires in…
After the sedan version launched last month, the new BMW i3 Touring was captured for the first time with its wagon tail on display.
BMW i3 Touring breaks cover ahead of its debut
The i3 went on sale in June as BMW’s second Neue Klasse model, following the iX3 SUV. In…
Toyota’s new bZ electric SUV is nearly outselling the Prius this year. With an extra $3,000 off if you trade in your old EV in California, it might be worth checking out.
Toyota wants you to upgrade to its new bZ electric SUV
After introducing the 2026 bZ, which dropped the former bZ4X name and received upgrades in just about every way, Toyota’s electric SUV has suddenly become one of…
LONDON — The U.S. military will soon field a drone wingman that expands well beyond the fixed wing platforms of the Combat Collaborative Aircraft program.
Anduril started the 2026 Farnborough Airshow with a splash on Monday when it unveiled an autonomous attack rotorcraft…
The next step toward further integrating semiautonomous aircraft into the U.S. Air Force and building trust with human operators would be through simulations and training exercises, a former Air Force secretary said.
Frank Kendall, the Air Force’s 26th secretary who served…
LONDON – As militaries prepare for a new age of air combat defined by ever-evolving unmanned aerial systems, one defense company is betting that the workload of fighter pilots will swell far beyond flying an aircraft to include directing swarms of drones.
At Farnborough Airshow this week in London, BAE Systems unveiled a helmet-mounted prototype it says is intended to explore how future…
