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Hephaestus Analytical Merges with Art Analysis Firm ArtDiscovery

Hephaestus Analytical Merges with Art Analysis Firm ArtDiscovery

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Hephaestus Analytical, a London-based tech company that authenticates artworks by using AI, provenance research, and advanced chemical analysis, has acquired scientific art analysis firm ArtDiscovery. ArtDiscovery’s extensive pigment database, spectral libraries, and expert team of conservators will enable Hephaestus “to unlock new possibilities in art authentication, making it more precise, accessible, and impactful than ever,” the merged companies’ CEO, Denis Moiseev, told ARTnews. He said the merger will lead to the “world’s highest evidentiary standards in art authentication.” Founded in 2009, ArtDiscovery has worked with the FBI, Sotheby’s, leading museums, and art dealers to verify artworks. “Joining Hephaestus feels like we are catching up with the digital world,” Nica Gutman Rieppi, the company’s managing director, said in a statement. “Working with Hephaestus does not so much alter our rigorous application of scientific standards as it accelerates them. We are now able to research across our vast provenance, imaging and pigment libraries, conduct chemical analyses, and provide our customers with definitive answers, all in less time and with even greater accuracy than before.” Hephaestus, which is …

The False Promise of Seasonal-Color Analysis

The False Promise of Seasonal-Color Analysis

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As long as people have been able to dress in color, we’ve been desperate to do it better. In the mid-19th century, advances in dyeing technology and synthetic organic chemistry allowed the textile industry, previously limited to what was available in nature, to mass-produce a rainbow’s worth of new shades. The problem was, people began wearing some truly awful outfits, driven to clashy maximalism by this revolution in color. Explore the February 2025 Issue Check out more from this issue and find your next story to read. View More The press created a minor moral panic (“un scandale optique,” a French journal called it), which it then attempted to solve. An 1859 issue of Godey’s Lady’s Book, the most widely read American women’s magazine of the antebellum era, promised to help “ill-dressed and gaudy-looking women” by invoking a prominent color theorist, the French chemist Michel-Eugène Chevreul, and his ideas about which colors were most “becoming” on various (presumably white) women. Chevreul advocated “delicate green” for those with fair skin “deficient in rose”; yellow for brunettes; …

2024 in Photos: A Look at the Middle Months

2024 in Photos: A Look at the Middle Months

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As the end of the year approaches, here is a look back at some of the major news moments of 2024. Events covered in this essay (the second of a three-part photo summary of the year) include the opening of the Paris Olympics, widespread flooding in Brazil, an assassination attempt on the presidential candidate Donald Trump, and much more. Check back tomorrow for the last installment, and be sure to see the first part and our “Top 25 News Photos of 2024.” To receive an email notification every time new photo stories are published, sign up here. Source link

Winners of the European Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2024

Winners of the European Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2024

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The German Society for Nature Photography (GDT) recently announced their winning images from the European Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2024, selected from nearly 18,000 entries from 38 countries in 11 categories. This year’s overall winner was Jaime Rojo, with a remarkable photograph of Monarch butterflies clustered in trees in Mexico’s El Rosario Monarch Butterfly Sanctuary. Competition organizers were kind enough to share some of the winning and honored photographs with us here. To receive an email notification every time new photo stories are published, sign up here. Source link

Photos: Florida Braces for Milton’s Wrath

Photos: Florida Braces for Milton’s Wrath

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Residents of Florida are preparing themselves for Hurricane Milton, currently a Category 4 storm, which is expected to make landfall later tonight or early tomorrow morning. Milton arrives less than two weeks after many Florida cities and towns were hit by Hurricane Helene—piles of storm debris still line the streets. Mandatory-evacuation orders are in place in cities along Florida’s central west coast, and residents have spent recent days boarding up windows, piling sandbags, and looking out for loved ones as they ready themselves for this enormous storm. To receive an email notification every time new photo stories are published, sign up here. Source link

23andMe’s future prompts more worries, as genomic data analysis improves

23andMe’s future prompts more worries, as genomic data analysis improves

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Customers of genetic data outfit 23andMe may be at greater risk than they realize, suggests a New York Times story that argues the company’s woes could be short-lived compared to the longer-term threats facing those roughly 15 million people if 23andMe can’t continue as a going concern. Certainly, the hope of founder and CEO Anne Wojcicki to turn around 23andMe seems increasingly unreachable. Following a major breach and resignation en mass of its independent directors, the company, once valued at $6 billion, is now valued at $150 million. It’s poised to be delisted next month. Press stories aren’t helping. (Would you buy one of its DNA kits?) The company says it remains committed to “follow laws that regulate the data we collect,” but if at some point soon it can’t, that’s worrisome, says a Yale biomedical professor to the Times. He notes that hacked credit cards can be replaced, while a genome cannot. Meanwhile, he adds, the tech that analyzes genomes is advancing. Chances are it will become more revealing, too. Source link

How I Send Google Forms Data to Google Sheets for Powerful Analysis

How I Send Google Forms Data to Google Sheets for Powerful Analysis

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Google Forms is excellent for recording responses from a large group of people, but analyzing that data can be cumbersome. For easier data manipulation and more in-depth analysis, I prefer transferring Google Forms data to a Google Sheets spreadsheet. Here’s how I do that. Linking a Google Form to a Google Sheets Spreadsheet By linking a form to a sheet, I can automatically collect all responses in a structured format. Each question from the form shows up as a column in the spreadsheet, and every response gets recorded in a new row. The best part is that this setup requires no manual effort from me apart from linking, and the sheet updates in real-time on its own. Here’s how you can link a Google Form to a Google Sheets spreadsheet: Navigate to Google Forms in your browser. Create a new form or open an existing one that you want to link to the spreadsheet. Go to the Responses tab in your form. Click Link to Sheets. Select Create a new spreadsheet. Enter a name for …

Photos: California’s Massive Park Fire Continues to Grow

Photos: California’s Massive Park Fire Continues to Grow

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An enormous wildfire—one of the largest in state history—is currently raging in northern California. Over the past five days, the Park Fire has expanded to more than 360,000 acres, and is only 12 percent contained, according to Cal Fire. Dry conditions and strong, gusty winds have driven the rapid growth of the blaze, reportedly caused by a man pushing a burning car into a ravine in the city of Chico. Thousands of people have been forced to evacuate, and more than 100 structures have been destroyed so far. To receive an email notification every time new photo stories are published, sign up here. Source link

Photos of the Week: Oval Office, Park Fire, Typhoon Gaemi

Photos of the Week: Oval Office, Park Fire, Typhoon Gaemi

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A water-dragon carnival in China, preparations for the Paris 2024 Summer Olympics, a moonrise over an erupting Mount Etna, scenes from the Tour de France, a dangerous heat wave in Japan, a presidential campaign event for Vice President Kamala Harris in Wisconsin, open spillways at China’s Three Gorges Dam, and much more To receive an email notification every time new photo stories are published, sign up here. Source link