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Apple’s Periscope Lens Plans Stymied by Samsung Patent: Report

September 4, 2021
Apple is reportedly hoping to integrate a periscope camera lens system into its iPhones as soon as 2023, but a new report out of Korea alleges that the Silicon Valley giant may have run up against a problem: a Samsung patent. As some background, “periscope” is the term used to describe a “folded” lens system that can squeeze greater zoom capabilities into the tiny camera arrays found in…
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A Day Off Twitch gave the platform its lowest viewer hours of 2021

September 4, 2021
On Wednesday, streamers and viewers boycotted Twitch as part of an organized protest, A Day Off Twitch. Users wanted to highlight the platform’s issues with harassment, notably the surge in “hate raids.” The raid feature lets a streamer send their viewers to a channel. Some have abused this to target POC content creators with waves of racist and hateful messages. With statistics from the…
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AI Weekly: An outline for government regulation of AI

September 4, 2021
The Transform Technology Summits start October 13th with Low-Code/No Code: Enabling Enterprise Agility. Register now! Governments face a range of policy challenges around AI technologies, many of which are exacerbated by the fact that they lack sufficiently detailed…
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Canon Has Discontinued the Astro-Focused EOS Ra Mirrorless Camera

September 3, 2021
Canon has discontinued the astrophotography-focused EOS Ra camera, a variation of the EOS R that the company first launched in November of 2019. Originally spotted by CanonRumors, the EOS Ra is no longer available directly from Canon and is listed as discontinued by other nationwide dealers or is “no longer available.” CanonRumors also states that a source claims the EOS R has also…
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OnePlus 10 series tipped to reuse predecessors’ design

September 3, 2021
While we’re patiently awaiting the debut of the rumored OnePlus 9 RT in October, some are already looking into next year. Our first OnePlus 10 series speculation focuses on the design aspect of next year’s flagships. So OnePlus is working on series 10 phones which are being pitched as polished series 9 models. Apart from this a bunch of Nord series models are on the roster as well. They are…
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