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8 Useful Ways to Describe and Measure Your Photos

A leading textbook on creative photography, released in 1980, devotes more than 90% of its 460 pages to technical considerations — how cameras and lenses work, darkroom procedures, lighting — and just a few pages to aesthetics and composition. Reading that textbook today gives new appreciation for just how far we’ve evolved — and how much photography has simplified — in the…
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Lensbaby Soft Focus II includes an adjustable aperture & promises creative photo fun

Lensbaby has announced the Soft Focus II optic, a new 50mm lens in Lensbaby’s Optic Swap System. The Soft Focus II is a new-and-improved version of one of the earliest members of the Optic Swap System. The new version improves upon its predecessor by adding a 12-blade manually adjustable internal aperture to the drop-in magnetic aperture system. The lens has an F2.5-22 aperture range. When…
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Tunic surprise launches on Xbox Game Pass

GamesBeat Summit 2022 returns with its largest event for leaders in gaming on April 26-28th. Reserve your spot here! Tunic released today, and it showed up in an unexpected place. The indie action-adventure game is available on Xbox Game Pass. This means that Game Pass…
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Quadric nabs $21M to accelerate production of its AI edge chips

Did you miss a session at the Data Summit? Watch On-Demand Here. The market for edge AI chips, designed to accelerate AI workloads offline, often in self-contained hardware, is maturing at a rapid clip. Building on converging trends like digital transformation, cloud-native technologies, and the internet of things, the edge AI hardware segment could be worth as much as $38.87 billion by 2030…
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Talent.com nabs $120M to bolster its AI-powered recruitment platform

Did you miss a session at the Data Summit? Watch On-Demand Here. During the pandemic, hiring has become increasingly focused on remote positions as companies eschew job fairs and other in-person recruitment initiatives in favor of alternatives. According to a LinkedIn survey, companies plan to adopt hiring processes that combine virtual and in-person steps due to the associated cost and time…
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