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Hands-On with the Canon R3: Shooting Motocross

February 2, 2022
Photographers Long Nguyen and Garth Milan recently got their hands on the new Canon EOS R3 and put it through its paces capturing motocross. The two share their thoughts on how Canon’s latest fits in their profession. Nguyen is an adventure and sports freelance photojournalist and owner of CustomSLR. Garth Milan is one of the world’s top action sports photographers and he and his work…
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GamingNews

Genvid launches a publishing division headed by former Ubisoft producer

February 2, 2022
Join gaming leaders, alongside GamesBeat and Facebook Gaming, for their 2nd Annual GamesBeat & Facebook Gaming Summit | GamesBeat: Into the Metaverse 2 this upcoming January 25-27, 2022. Learn more about the event.  Genvid Technologies has started a publishing division and hired former Ubisoft production leader Arthur von Nagel. Von Nagel will become vice president of production at Genvid…
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AI & RoboticsNews

How video games could be used to generate AI training data

February 2, 2022
AI, like humans, learns from examples. Given enough data and time, an AI model can make sense of the statistical relationships well enough to generate predictions. That’s how OpenAI’s GPT-3 writes text from poetry to computer code, and how apps like Google Lens recognize objects such as lampshades in photos of bedrooms. Historically, the data to train as well as test AI has come mostly from…
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MobileNews

Can the Duolingo iPhone app help a language dunce learn some Spanish?

February 2, 2022
Duolingo is one of the world’s most popular apps, consistently ranking in the top two or three educational apps, and a hugely popular way to learn a language. All of which had, until very recently, been completely irrelevant to me. I’m generally a fast learner, and have picked up a diverse range of skills over the years, but have always been completely hopeless when it comes to learning…
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