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Google Search turns on passage ranking to help find buried answers

February 12, 2021
Google Search has historically evaluated “all content on a web page to determine if it is relevant to a query.” Back in October, alongside the launch of Hum to Search, Google announced passage ranking, and it’s now starting to roll out.  The company wants to address how sometimes the “single sentence that answers your question might be buried deep in a web page” that is either very…
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Canon’s New App Culls Photos with Artificial Intelligence

February 11, 2021
Canon has announced the Photo Culling app, the company’s new software for iOS that is built on a newly-announced proprietary artificial intelligence. Canon advertises its new app as a “digital photo assistant” to help select your best images based on four key parameters. Starting with the core of its new app, Canon announced that it has built a Computer Vision Artificial Intelligence…
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Sony’s Next Camera is the Cine/Alpha Hybrid FX3: Report

February 11, 2021
A pair of photos have emerged that appear to show Sony’s next camera, depicting a look that combines the body profile of the Alpha series with cinema camera buttons. Called the FX3, it shares much in common with the design philosophy of the Blackmagic Pocket Cinema Camera.
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YouTube site picture-in-picture mode working again w/ all browsers in iOS 14.5 beta

February 11, 2021
YouTube users on iPhone or iPad can again access picture-in-picture mode on all browsers when visiting the video-sharing mobile site when running the recent iOS 14.5 beta. The ability was last working with the iOS 14.0.1 update but was limited to Apple’s own Safari browser. The iOS 14.5 beta update rolled out just a few days ago – our colleagues over at 9to5Mac have done a deep dive into all…
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Fraudulent Website Warning gets privacy boost in iOS 14.5

February 11, 2021
Apple’s Fraudulent Website Warning is designed to alert you when you’re about to visit a website that is known to host malware, or that is believed to be a phishing site. Previously, that check consulted a database hosted on a Google server, but as of iOS 14.5 it instead…
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YouTube site picture-in-picture mode working again w/ all browsers in iOS 14.5 beta

February 11, 2021
YouTube users on iPhone or iPad can again access picture-in-picture mode on all browsers when visiting the video-sharing mobile site when running the recent iOS 14.5 beta. The ability was last working with the iOS 14.0.1 update but was limited to Apple’s own Safari browser. The iOS 14.5 beta update rolled out just a few days ago – our colleagues over at 9to5Mac have done a deep dive into all…
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