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Curators solve mysteries of ‘poisonous’ 19th-century portrait album

Jacqui Palumbo, CNN Some two decades ago, the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery acquired a 19th-century album featuring 2,000 paper portrait silhouettes, including those of George Washington and Thomas Jefferson, made by the traveling artist William Bache decades before the advent of photography. But until recently, the gallery knew precious few details about the majority of

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Hundreds of Southwest Airlines flights are delayed after FAA lifts nationwide ground stop

By Gregory Wallace, Pete Muntean and Ray Sanchez, CNN Hundreds of Southwest Airlines flights were delayed after technical issues that prompted the airline to temporarily halt its operations on Tuesday morning. Southwest said the flight delays were the result of “data connection issues resulting from a firewall failure,” a problem that led to a brief

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Artist rejects photo prize after AI-generated image wins award

Lianne Kolirin, CNN A German artist has rejected an award from a prestigious international photography competition after revealing that his submission was generated by Artificial Intelligence (AI). Berlin-based Boris Eldagsen won the creative open category at this year’s Sony World Photography Award with his entry “Pseudomnesia: The Electrician.” The eerie black and white image shows

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‘World’s longest’ purpose-built cycling tunnel opens in Norway

By Maureen O’Hare, CNN There are many ways to explore the seven mountains that surround the picturesque UNESCO World Heritage city of Bergen on Norway’s fjord-studded west coast. The newest, however, might well be record-breaking. A three-kilometer-long (1.8-mile) cycling and pedestrian tunnel has been blasted through the base of Løvstakken mountain and its makers say

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