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The pandemic led to ‘significant’ increase in AI adoption across manufacturing, survey finds

June 9, 2021
Elevate your enterprise data technology and strategy at Transform 2021. New research from Google Cloud and The Harris Poll reveals that the pandemic led to a significant increase in AI use across manufacturers. According to a survey of senior executives at over 1,000 companies, two-thirds of manufacturers that use AI in their day-to-day operations report that their reliance on AI is increasing…
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How AI and mosquito sex parties can save the world

June 9, 2021
Elevate your enterprise data technology and strategy at Transform 2021. Diptera.ai has raised a $3 million seed round to fight mosquitoes with mosquitoes — and AI-based sex sorting. Jerusalem-based Diptera.ai has figured out a way to use AI to fight the growing threat…
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Google used reinforcement learning to design next-gen AI accelerator chips

June 9, 2021
Elevate your enterprise data technology and strategy at Transform 2021. In a preprint paper published a year ago, scientists at Google Research including Google AI lead Jeff Dean described an AI-based approach to chip design that could learn from past experience and improve over time, becoming better at generating architectures for unseen components. They claimed it completed designs in under…
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How edge AI can make enterprises more agile

June 9, 2021
Elevate your enterprise data technology and strategy at Transform 2021. The pandemic has accelerated the adoption of edge computing, or computation and data storage that’s located close to where it’s needed. According to the Linux Foundation’s State of the Edge…
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How To Get Super-Sharp Photos Every Time, With Any Camera

June 9, 2021
As a professional photographer, I use a lot of different cameras. At any given time, I can use really expensive full-frame cameras combined with the best glass money can buy, to mid-range cameras with kit lenses, all the way down to even compact cameras that fit in my pocket. I need all these tools to get my job done, and they all have a place in my bag, regardless of the price bracket they fall…
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How to Plan Out Milky Way Photos

June 9, 2021
Plan your work and work your plan. That’s what… someone important once told me? Anyhow, in my opinion, planning out your Milky Way shots is absolutely one of the best ways to increase the likelihood you will be shooting bangers. Aloha! My name is Daniel Stein, and I’m…
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8K Video Shootout: Sony Alpha 1 Versus Canon EOS R5

June 9, 2021
How does the powerful Sony Alpha 1 stack up against the less expensive Canon EOS R5 when it comes to video performance? LensProToGo has shared a video comparison that puts the two cameras against one another in an 8K shootout. Announced early in 2021, the Sony Alpha 1…
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Photographer Recreates Large Format Film Look with a Digital Camera

June 9, 2021
Ukrainian photographer Olexiy Shportun has created an image capture device that combines a digital camera with a system that resembles a large format film camera to produce dreamy, bokeh-rich still-life photos and portraits. Shportun’s full camera system is huge and slow to use by modern standards, but it allows him to achieve images that have a shallow depth of field and dreamy quality that…
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