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Sleeping Beauty, Show White, Peter Pan, Captain Hook or Winnie-the-Pooh are already in the public domain. Which ones are the next?

Mickey’s several companions will be entering the public domain in the next five years. Pluto will be free to use in 2026, Goofy in 2028, and Donald Duck in 2029.

Cluttercore nostalgia, AI fueled art, dark baroque, Asian harmony concepts, and aerial photography are among the top visual trends of 2025, based on trending search queries of the Depositphotos image library.

How did we go from smoke signals to smartphones? Let’s have a look at the most remarkable advancements in communication technology.

You will discover the origin of the telephone, when computers were invented, the first email sent and so much more!

How do Instagram influencers use artificial intelligence?

▸ 83% of Instagram influencers use AI tools for content creation. It’s a shift toward more tech-enhanced creativity, “enabling influencers to focus on their personal brand while AI handles repetitive tasks.”

▸ 31% of Instagram influencers are worried about the quality of content produced by generative AI.

▸ 13% of influencers feel very comfortable with the idea of creating a digital clone of themselves.

Famous phones from movies – a few fun facts

1. The first video phone was used in the movie Metropolis in 1927. The large, wall-mounted device had several dials that could control call location frequency and video quality.

2. In 2001: A Space Odyssey, a video telecommunications device was used in industrialized areas of Earth and on Space Station V.

3. In Tomorrow Never Dies (1997), James Bond was equipped with an Ericsson JB988, featuring touch pad remote control for his BMW, 20,000 volt taser, and a fingerprint scanner.

4. The phone used in The Matrix movie, released in 1999, was Nokia 8110. This particular model was selected because it was one of few well-known cell phone models at the time – and the film was intended to resemble an alternate 1999.

This handy visual lists the first comic book appearances of 101 Marvel characters.

Each character comes with a three factors:

– Alignment (hero, villain, anti-hero) – Species (for instance: fairy, atlantean, titan, deity) – Powers (for instance: psychic, born with powers, enhanced, accidental or mutant powers, etc.) Each character comes with a three factors:

How to turn your Kindle lockscreen into a custom composition notebook cover? The trick is that you can use Zazzle online platform to customize the design and then just make a screenshot.

What do people think of the iPhone?

▸ 30% of people would categorize someone who always has the newest iPhone as rich. ▸ 42% of Americans think that having the latest phone is important for their self image. ▸ 9 in 10 people think that iPhones are overpriced.

60 most famous artificial intelligence characters in movies, books, and games

The first AI character in a movie was False Maria from the 1927 film Metropolis. She’s a robot created to infiltrate the worker class and incite a rebellion against the wealthy elite. False Maria symbolizes the dangers of unchecked technology and the exploitation of the working class.