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Aerial Photos of Evaporation Ponds at Utah’s Great Salt Lake

December 14, 2021
German photographer Tom Hegen visited the salt evaporation ponds at the Great Salt Lake in Utah earlier this year as part of an extensive aerial photography project. What resulted is a beautifully abstract series titled The Salt Series III. The photographs feel like a blending of photography and fine art painting. “The extraction of sea salt is one of the oldest forms of human…
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OpenAI begins allowing customers to fine-tune GPT-3

December 14, 2021
Hear from CIOs, CTOs, and other C-level and senior execs on data and AI strategies at the Future of Work Summit this January 12, 2022. Learn more OpenAI, the San Francisco, California-based lab developing AI technologies including large language models, today announced the…
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The Best Plugins for Photoshop and Lightroom in 2021

December 14, 2021
Photoshop and Lightroom are mainstays in most photographers’ workflows for a reason. While other options abound, no other set of programs matches the popularity and widespread adoption of Adobe’s signature photography software. But while Photoshop’s manipulation…
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48MP iPhone 14 camera with 8K video – another analyst backs Kuo

December 14, 2021
A Kuo report back in April said that we can expect a 48MP iPhone 14 camera next year, together with 8K video recording. This has now been echoed by a second analyst. We would, however, repeat the caveat we offered at the time: The headline may not tell the whole story … Background Noted Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo made a number of iPhone 14 predictions back in the spring, based on supply chain…
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Google Photos ‘Memories’ now available more widely on web

December 14, 2021
Google Photos “Memories” carousel is now starting to appear more widely on the web client after first being confirmed as launching on the desktop version back in October. Simply a desktop-oriented version of the popular AI-generated photo flipbooks that have been on…
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Police investigate ‘suspicious death’ at Tesla Fremont factory

December 14, 2021
The Fremont Police Department announced that its homicide detectives are investigating a “suspicious death” that occurred at Tesla Fremont factory yesterday, December 13. Details are scarce at the moment as all the information is coming from a short statement from the Fremont Police stating that the fire department responded to a subject in the parking lot of Tesla Fremont factory and…
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Oppo takes a note from Google Pixel to improve photos and AI w/ ‘MariSilicon X’ chip

December 14, 2021
The chips used by Android devices are mostly provided by just two companies, but over the past couple of years, more major device makers have been working on their own chip designs. Today, Oppo is debuting its first self-made chip, the MariSilicon X imaging chip. Announced as a part of the company’s two-day “Inno Day” event, the MariSilicon X chip is a chip that combines the tasks of an…
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