Japanese financial publication Nikkei has published (soft-paywalled behind a free account) the results of its 2020 ‘Major Product and Service Share Survey,’ wherein it details the market share of the top five digital camera manufacturers and top five sensor manufacturers.
Nikkei’s data shows the digital camera market (measured by units shipped) as a whole dropped roughly 40% in 2020, due to…
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Developer Ninja Theory announced today that an optimization patch for Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice is available now for Xbox Series X/S
This update adds support for ray tracing, 4K resolutions…
Data labeling platform Snorkel AI nabs $85M
August 9, 2021
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Data labeling platform Snorkel AI today announced it has raised $85 million in a series C round co-led by Addition and funds and accounts managed by BlackRock, with participation from Greylock…
Eden AI launches platform to unify ML APIs
August 9, 2021
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Large cloud vendors like Amazon, Google, Microsoft, and IBM offer APIs enterprises can use to take advantage of powerful AI models. But comparing these models — both in terms of performance and cost — can be challenging without thorough planning. Moreover, the siloed nature of the APIs makes it difficult to unify…
Macro Photos of Insects: A Slightly Different Approach
August 9, 2021
Photographing insects in the field demands higher shutter speeds, a steady hand, and a smaller aperture to ensure sharpness.
On warm summer days, insects are mobile and easily found. However, they provide minimal opportunities to carefully compose an image – they are too…
Shortly after taking delivery of the new Nikon Z MC 105mm f/2.8 VR S lens, I made a series of photographs to test its diffraction and bokeh characteristics using the 45MP Nikon Z 7II camera in a real-world situation.
After manually focusing the lens, I locked focus and made…
Why Are Hasselblad Cameras So Expensive?
August 9, 2021
For most, Hasselblad is a name that has been associated with iconic photographs and technical quality — and a huge price that reflects that. However, has Hasselblad always been a premium photography brand, and why are they so expensive?
The Swedish manufacturer of photographic equipment and medium format cameras — both analog and digital — is known for delivering high image quality and…
Canon and Sony made up a vast majority of the camera sales in 2020, which saw a 40% dip in market size globally during what was an incredibly rough year for the industry and the market is only predicted to shrink further.
As part of a major annual report by Nikkei — the…
On August 3, Ancestry.com — the largest for-profit genealogy company in the world — updated its terms and conditions to include new language that gives it the right to use any family photos uploaded to its system for anything it likes, forever and without limits.
AI’s real effect on jobs? It’s complicated
August 9, 2021
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To some, AI is a job killer. To others, it is a job enhancer. But like every other form of labor development since the first farmer hitched an ox to a plow and displaced a hundred field hands, AI’s impact on the modern job market will be mixed.
Without question, AI will take on many tasks that humans are doing now.
