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This Camera Camel Helps Shoot Hard-to-Reach Desert Locations

A group of photographers recently enlisted the help of the world’s first remote photographer camel. It wandered inaccessible areas in Saudi Arabia and worked as their photography assistant through the use of a remote shooting rig mounted to her hump. There are many areas in the world still very inaccessible to even the most adventurous photographers, but innovative methods are often deployed to…
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Reflex SLR Camera Project Derailed by Development Issues

Three years after raising £100,000 on Kickstarter, the Reflex SLR project may be shelved indefinitely due to major issues in developing a prototype that have burned through the cash raised from backers. Reflex was launched in a Kickstarter crowdfunding campaign by Laurence…
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Synopsys CEO: AI-designed chips will generate 1,000X performance in 10 years

The Transform Technology Summits start October 13th with Low-Code/No Code: Enabling Enterprise Agility. Register now! Automation has been part of chip design since the 1980s. But now AI-designed chips are producing great results that could lead to 1,000 times better performance for chips in the next decade, according to Synopsys CEO Aart de Geus. De Geus, one of the pioneers of chip design…
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OxygenOS 11.1.5.5 rolls out for OnePlus Nord w/ August patch, Bitmoji AOD

OxygenOS 11.1.5.5 is now rolling out for last year’s OnePlus Nord series devices with a couple of new features and the recent August 2021 security patch. Following in the footsteps of the OnePlus 8 and 8T series in recent weeks, the OxygenOS 11.1.5.5 adds the Bitmoji customization options for the Always-on display plus a number of tweaks related to that new feature. You can also now take a…
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Google meaningfully talks about new YouTube Music features for the first time in 2021

In recent months, YouTube Music has seen a slew of tweaks that refine the app but don’t fundamentally change the experience. That’s par for the course at Google, but what’s been incredibly odd is how the YouTube Music team has not meaningfully talked about any of these new features until last week. YouTube Music’s last major feature launch that warranted a blog post from the company was…
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