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9 of History’s Rarest Cameras You Can Actually Buy

June 12, 2021
The history of photography is over a century old — in fact, it was 107 years ago that Oskar Barnack created the Ur-Leica, a camera that would later be known as the genesis of the 36×24 “full-frame” format. Since then, hundreds of companies across the world have, to varying degrees of success, produced everything from 35mm to 127 to an assortment of medium format sizes and finally to…
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Awesomely Weird Alibaba EV of the Week: A $4,000, 9-passenger electric mini-van

June 12, 2021
This week’s entry in the Awesomely Weird Alibaba Electric Vehicle of the Week series isn’t a minivan, it’s a mini-van. And amazingly, the company claims it can carry up to nine passengers – though you might need to start measuring each other if you plan to actually cram that many people into this little electric van. You see, this definitely isn’t a full-size van, even though you might…
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Activision Blizzard discloses environment, social, and governance efforts

June 12, 2021
Elevate your enterprise data technology and strategy at Transform 2021. Activision Blizzard has released its first-ever report on its Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) commitments. The report focuses on how the company is championing its people, advancing more diverse and inclusive communities, and helping to protect our planet. What does that mean? The big video game publisher said…
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Transform 2021 puts the spotlight on women in AI

June 12, 2021
Elevate your enterprise data technology and strategy at Transform 2021. VentureBeat is proud to bring back the Women in AI Breakfast and Awards online for Transform 2021. In the male-dominated tech industry, women are constantly faced with the gender equity gap. There is…
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AI Weekly: AI helps companies design physical products

June 12, 2021
Elevate your enterprise data technology and strategy at Transform 2021. This week in a paper published in the journal Nature, researchers at Google detailed how they used AI to design the next generation of tensor processing units (TPU), the company’s application-specific integrated circuits optimized for AI workloads. While the work wasn’t novel — Google’s been refining the technique…
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