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

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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The Best Plugins for Photoshop and Lightroom in 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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OpenAI begins allowing customers to fine-tune GPT-3

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 ability to create custom versions of GPT-3, a model that can generate human-like text and code. Developers can use…
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Google Photos ‘Memories’ now available more widely on web

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 Google Photos for mobile for a couple of years now, Memories on a desktop browser offers a slightly more detailed look at…
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Oppo takes a note from Google Pixel to improve photos and AI w/ ‘MariSilicon X’ chip

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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