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Tesla is starting to account for wind, air density, and more when doing range calculation

March 16, 2022
Tesla is now starting to account for wind, air density, and more when doing range calculations in an attempt to be more accurate. Range calculations are difficult regardless of the type of powertrain, electric or internal combustion engine. There are just so many factors that can affect the efficiency of a vehicle on a road that it is hard to determine how far it can go on a full battery pack or…
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8 Useful Ways to Describe and Measure Your Photos

March 16, 2022
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

March 16, 2022
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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GamingNews

Tunic surprise launches on Xbox Game Pass

March 16, 2022
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…
AI & RoboticsNews

Quadric nabs $21M to accelerate production of its AI edge chips

March 16, 2022
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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