This "mini web tool" site has tools tech people tend to frequently use. I like that the "Image to text" tool lets us just paste image from clipboard; and not have to load from a file. And text extraction happens entirely in the browser. 👍👍
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The #comet C/2025 R3 (PANSTARRS) is now also in the field of view of the coronagraph CCOR-1: https://ccor.nrl.navy.mil/ccor_realtime/last_image_MinBckgnd.png = the latest image (the one here is from 14:00 UTC), https://ccor.nrl.navy.mil/realtime-movie = an animation up to now (and see https://soho.nascom.nasa.gov/data/realtime/c3/1024/latest.html for the LASCO C3 view).
ComfyUI, which gives creators granular control over image, video, and audio outputs from diffusion models, raised $30M at a $500M valuation (Marina Temkin/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/24/comfyui-hits-500m-valu…
Analysts speculate about the best candidates to buy Imax, noting a studio buyer could erode Imax's value if the buyer favored its own releases over competitors (Etan Vlessing/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business…
Meta and Amazon reach a multi-billion, multiyear deal for Meta to rent hundreds of thousands of Amazon's Graviton chips for its AI efforts (Matt Day/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-04-24/meta-inks-mu…