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Ancestry.com Now Lets You Automatically Colorize Historical Photos

Ancestry, the largest for-profit genealogy website on the planet, has integrated an automatic colorization feature that it says lets users bring make black and white photos more lifelike. The company says it already enables the ability to capture, digitize, retouch, and preserve old family photos, but it is now adding the ability to colorize them with a new tool. This allows users to gain…
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Sigma’s new 16-28mm F2.8 lens offers an ultra-wide focal length range, fast continuous maximum aperture and impressive close focus capabilities. All in a remarkably small and lightweight package. So how well does it perform? Check out our sample gallery, shot around Seattle and the Long Beach peninsula, here in Washington State, to see for yourself. View our Sigma 16-28mm F2.8 DG DN sample…
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Thousands of Chinese Police Photos of Detained Uyghurs Leak Online

Thousands of hacked Chinese police photographs of interned Uyghurs have shed light on Beijing’s treatment of its Muslim minority in Xinjiang. Dubbed the Xinjiang Police Files, the photos were passed to the BBC and other media earlier this year. After a months-long investigation to authenticate them, they have now been published and offer significant insight into the imprisonment of…
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James Webb Telescope’s First Full-Color Photos to be Released on July 12

The James Webb Space Telescope will release its first full-color images and spectroscopic data on July 12, and a countdown clock has been added to the telescope’s website. Webb, which is a partnership with the European Space Agency, Canadian Space Agency, and NASA, is the largest and most complex observatory ever launched into space. The telescope is currently in the midst of wrapping…
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