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Windfall nabs $21M for AI that aids nonprofit fundraising

Join Transform 2021 for the most important themes in enterprise AI & Data. Learn more. Windfall, a startup developing an AI platform to help nonprofits engage donors, today raised $21 million in venture capital. The company says the funds will be used to invest in product R&D, the expansion of its team, and the scaling up of Windfall’s marketing and sales operations. Securing donations…
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AI experts warn Facebook’s anti-bias tool is ‘completely insufficient’

Join Transform 2021 for the most important themes in enterprise AI & Data. Learn more. Facebook today published a blog post detailing Fairness Flow, an internal toolkit the company claims enables its teams to analyze how some types of AI models perform across different groups. Developed in 2018 by Facebook’s Interdisciplinary Responsible AI (RAI) team in consultation with Stanford…
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Canon Appears to Be Rapidly Discontinuing Popular DSLR Lenses

Canon appears to be rapidly discontinuing its EF-mount DSLR lenses this year as the company focuses on its mirrorless offerings. Five popular lenses have been marked as “no longer available” at some retailers including popular optics like the 85mm f/1.2L USM II and the 70-200mm f/4L IS USM II. As noted on a running list on Canon Rumors, the company reportedly started discontinuing lenses in…
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iPhone 13 Pro Max will have slightly better main lens than rest of lineup – Kuo

Noted Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo is out with a new supply-chain report that indicates that the iPhone 13 Pro Max will have a slightly better main lens than the rest of this year’s lineup. The report says that the wide-angle camera on the largest of the four models will have a marginally wider aperture than the iPhone 13 mini, iPhone 13, and iPhone 13 Pro … The wide-angle lens being made for…
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