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Quick Charge Podcast: April 8, 2021

April 9, 2021
Listen to a recap of the top stories of the day from Electrek. Quick Charge is available now on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, TuneIn and our RSS feed for Overcast and other podcast players. New episodes of Quick Charge are recorded Monday through Thursday and again on Saturday. Subscribe to our podcast in Apple Podcast or your favorite podcast player to guarantee new episodes are delivered as…
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How to Make a Digital Polaroid Camera for Cheap Thermal Instant Photos

April 8, 2021
In this article, I’m going to tell you the story of my latest camera creation: a digital Polaroid camera that combines a receipt printer with a Raspberry Pi. To build it I took an old Polaroid Minute Maker camera, stripped out its guts, and replaced the innards with a digital camera, an E Ink display, a receipt printer, and an SNES controller to operate the camera. If you like this project…
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Facebook dataset combats AI bias by having people self-identify age and gender

April 8, 2021
Join GamesBeat Summit 2021 this April 28-29. Register for a free or VIP pass today. Facebook today open-sourced a dataset designed to surface age, gender, and skin tone biases in computer vision and audio machine learning models. The company claims that the corpus — Casual Conversations — is the first of its kind featuring paid people who explicitly provided their age and gender as opposed…
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How I Saved $15,000 When Buying Pro Camera Gear

April 8, 2021
It’s no secret that most photographers want the pro stuff. Indeed, perhaps your favorite YouTuber has a Canon R5 or the latest expensive L lens. Pro gear beats amateur gear in most areas, even if it’s 10 years older. I know people who shot global campaigns in 2018 on a…
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Tim Cook’s idea of voting on iPhones is ‘preposterous,’ says Ohio Secretary of State

April 8, 2021
Among the topics discussed in a recent NYT interview with Apple CEO Tim Cook was the idea of voting on iPhones. Cook argued that using smartphones to make voting easier and more convenient could help solve the problems of low voter turnout and voter suppression. But Ohio Secretary of State Frank LaRose has responded by calling the idea “preposterous” … Business Insider reports: In the…
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