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Android 12 Will Support AVIF Photos

February 20, 2021
The first preview of Android 12 has landed, and it brings news that the mobile operating system will have platform support for the AV1 Image File Format (AVIF), which has dramatically better image quality for the same file size when compared with image formats such as JPEG. AVIF is an image file format that uses AV1 compression (the open, royalty-free video coding format designed for video…
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Google’s Model Search automatically optimizes and identifies AI models

February 20, 2021
Google today announced the release of Model Search, an open source platform designed to help researchers develop machine learning models efficiently and automatically. Instead of focusing on a specific domain, Google says that Model Search is domain-agnostic, making it capable of finding a model architecture that fits a dataset and problem while minimizing coding time and compute resources. The…
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Google fires Ethical AI lead Margaret Mitchell

February 20, 2021
Google fired Margaret “Meg” Mitchell, lead of the Ethical AI team, today. The move comes just hours after Google announced diversity policy changes and Google AI chief Jeff Dean sent an apology in the wake of the firing of former Google AI ethics lead Timnit Gebru in…
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Ken Rockwell Patents ‘Smart Cropping’ Camera Software for Zooms

February 20, 2021
Ken Rockwell has announced that he has patented a software addition that would leverage the ability for full-frame cameras to shoot in crop modes and automatically apply that feature when a lens is zoomed for extra optical throw in situations like bird photography. Rockwell says that he along with optical patent attorney and co-inventor Ben Langlotz have been granted a ptatent that he claims…
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Army to Test New Anti-Missile System to Protect Tanks, Bradleys and Strykers

February 20, 2021
Soldiers from 1st Battalion, 163rd Cavalry Regiment, Montana Army National Guard, push on in their Bradley Fighting Vehicle during a defensive attack training exercise at the National Training Center (NTC) in Fort Irwin, Calif., June 1, 2019 (Cpl. Alisha Grezlik/115th Mobile Public Affairs Detachment) The Army will soon start testing a Lockheed Martin anti-missile defense system designed to work…
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