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Splat’s app uses AI to turn your photos into coloring pages for kids

December 23, 2025
The team at Retro, a photo-sharing app for close friends and family, is experimenting with how generative AI can be put to more creative uses. To try out the latest, cutting-edge AI technologies, the team built a new app called Splat, which lets you turn any photo into a coloring book page for kids. As any parent will tell you, kids love to color. And thanks to the web, there’s a seemingly…
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These images beat nearly two million entries to win Oppo’s Photography Awards 2025

December 23, 2025
The 2025 Oppo Photography Awards has crowned its global winners, spotlighting some of the most compelling mobile photography from around the world. In its biggest year yet, the competition drew nearly 2 million submissions from 87 countries, making it the most expansive edition in the awards’ history. The winning works are currently being showcased at the awards’ global finale in Cairo, Egypt…
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Cleantech & EV'sNews

How Toyota gamified propagandizing employees to lobby for more pollution

December 23, 2025
Toyota’s latest move in its work to harm the environment involves an internal platform where it uses video games to spread propaganda among its North American employees, enticing them with prizes to join lobbying efforts to loosen environmental rules around the automotive industry. We’ve covered Toyota’s anti-environment lobbying efforts many times before. For an inexhaustive list of how…
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DefenseNews

Pentagon counter-drone task force plans Golden Dome link

December 23, 2025
The Joint Interagency Task Force 401, established by the Pentagon as the military’s lead counter-drone organization, plans to share data with the Golden Dome missile defense project to defend against threats from larger drones, U.S. Army Brig. Gen. Matt Ross, director of…
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Sweden hastens Gripen deep-strike punch with Taurus missiles

December 23, 2025
MONTREAL — Sweden will soon have the capability to conduct deep strikes far behind enemy lines, as the Gripen will be integrated with the German-made Taurus cruise missile earlier than planned, the Swedish air chief said. “We have reprioritized and done work to ensure that our industry, FMV, and the Air Force’s work on this overlaps as much as possible, resulting in the original timeline…
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