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I Found My Own Stolen Lens for Sale Online and There’s Nothing I Can Do

One night two years ago, someone stole $10,000 of my camera equipment. Just recently, I found one of my more iconic lenses — a pink Handevision 40mm f/0.85 Mark II — for sale online. The police are slow to respond, and eBay won’t help until law enforcement is involved. My name is Nathan Cowlishaw, but my business and brand as a professional tour guide are Nathan Arizona, LLC and Talking…
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Photoshop’s ‘Save As’ Function Has Changed on Mac. Here’s Why

As part of its May 2021 release of Photoshop on Desktop for Mac — version 22.4 — Adobe made a significant change to how the “Save As” command works. Rather than continuing to act as it has across applications on all computers for decades, Adobe altered the basic functionality and has left users baffled. In an update that was pushed out last week, Adobe notes that it has added a new save…
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Google details new AI accelerator chips

Elevate your enterprise data technology and strategy at Transform 2021. At Google I/O 2021, Google today formally announced its fourth-generation tensor processing units (TPUs), which the company claims can complete AI and machine learning training workloads in…
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MoMA Wants Your Photos for Free, Perpetually, and ‘Any Purpose’

The Metropolitan Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) is soliciting photographers to share photos on Instagram based on monthly themes. Those who participate will be featured on the MoMA’s social channels, but also give the museum significant rights to use the photos “for any purpose.” In honor of National Photography Month and its new exhibition Fotoclubismo: Brazilian Modernist Photography…
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Spotify getting accessiblity improvements on iOS/Android including auto podcast transcription

Spotify has announced three new accessibility updates heading to iOS and Android over the coming weeks. The most interesting may be a new auto transcription feature for podcasts so users can read their shows. Spotify announced the accessibility news in a blog post today: We’re continuously making accessibility improvements to the experience to help many of our users enjoy the songs and…
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