A para-surfing event in Australia, an anti-Hamas protest in the Gaza Strip, Nowruz celebrations in Iraq, deadly wildfires in South Korea, a spiral in the night sky over Sweden, a sea-lion rescue in California, a rally race in Kenya, and much more. Police officers use pepper spray on a demonstrator wearing dervish clothes, during a protest on the day Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu was jailed as part of a corruption investigation, in Istanbul, on March 23, 2025. # People wearing T. rex costumes compete during a Tyrannosaurus Race on the track of Funabashi Racecourse in Funabashi, Japan, on March 22, 2025. The race, which originated with the T-Rex Race held at Emerald Downs in Washington State in 2017, has been gaining popularity in Japan. # Kalle Rovanpera steers his Toyota GR Yaris Rally1 with co-driver Jonne Halttunen over a jump at Miti Mbili during the during the World Rally Championship Safari Rally Kenya Special Stage 6, on March 21, 2025. # Men secure packed Buddha statues onto a trailer's cargo bed, along with other items, to move them to safety, as a wildfire threatened Bongjeong Temple, listed as a Korean Mountain Area Temple by UNESCO, in Andong, South Korea, on March 26, 2025. #...
But as someone who studies the societal impacts of AI, I've noticed an interesting trade-off: The technology can certainly save time, but it does so precisely to the extent that the user is willing to surrender control over the final product. Let's use the example of AI image generators. You probably have a rough idea of how they work. Just type what you want ' 'a panda surfing,' 'a piece of toast that is also a car' ' and the generative tool draws it. You can also pop open an image editor and modify the output yourself, down to the individual pixel. But, of course, drafting detailed instructions and revising the image take time, effort and skill. Generative AI promises to lighten the load. But as every manager knows, exercising control is work. Filmmakers shoot take after take of the same scene, each subtly or radically different. Only a small fraction of that footage makes it into the final cut ' the fraction that the editors feel does the job best. Great artists use their judgment to ensure every detail helps to achieve the effect they want....
A Christmas fair in Romania, an enormous indoor ice rink in Paris, a surfing Santa Claus in Australia, a sunset camel safari in India, a cyclo-cross race in Belgium, holiday lights in Japan and France, and much more A drone flies a guard figure past a 12-meter-tall statue of Young-hee, the infamous doll from Netflix's South Korean TV series "Squid Game," standing on a barge in front of Wat Arun temple in Bangkok, Thailand, ahead of the launch of Season 2, on December 19, 2024. # Alida Freding, from Stockholm, in the role of Sankta Lucia, has her headdress of candles lit as she prepares to lead the procession during the Sankta Lucia Festival of Light service at York Minster on December 16, 2024, in York, England. The Sankta Lucia service, featuring the Chorus Pictor Choir, is a traditional Swedish service combining pagan and Christian traditions. # A dinosaur statue is seen on top of a ruined building in Aleppo, Syria, on December 16, 2024. Aleppo was the first major city to fall in last week's lightning offensive by rebel forces as they toppled Syria's Assad regime. #...
The 'choking game' has potentially deadly consequences, as players are challenged to temporarily strangle themselves by restricting oxygen to the brain. It sounds terrifying, but rough estimates suggest that about 10% of U.S. teenagers may have played this type of game at least once. There's more, unfortunately: The Skullbreaker Challenge, the Tide Pod Challenge and Car Surfing are but a few of the deadly games popularized through social media, particularly on Snapchat, Instagram, TikTok, YouTube and X ' formerly Twitter. Many of these games go back more than a generation, and some are resurging. The consequences of these so-called games can be deadly. Skullbreaker Challenge, for example, involves two people kicking the legs out from under a third person, causing them to fall and potentially suffer lasting injuries. Swallowing detergent pods can result in choking and serious illness. A fall from car surfing can lead to severe head trauma. Coming up with an exact number of adolescent deaths from these activities is difficult. Data is lacking, partly because public health databases do not track these activities well ' some deaths may be misclassified as suicides ' and partly because much of the existing research is dated....
