Yongnuo has announced a new version of its popular YN685 Speedlite for Canon and Nikon cameras. The Yongnuo YN685 II is a refreshed version of the YN685, which released in 2015.
The YN685 II incorporates many of the same features of the YN685 while making a handful of minor changes and improvements. The exterior design of the YN685 II is essentially identical, save for the addition of a USB port.
Electronic Arts announced today that it is working on a new college football game, the first since NCAA College Football 14’s release in 2013. However, it will not use the names or likenesses of any student athletes.
Issues around the rights and fees for those likenesses…
Superb AI raises $9.3 million to annotate training data
February 2, 2021
San Mateo, California-based Superb AI, a startup developing a platform for AI-enabled training data, today announced that it closed a $9.3 million financing round. Cofounder and CEO Hyunsoo Kim said that the financing will allow the three-year-old company to ramp up hiring…
Case studies of successful AI startups
February 2, 2021
With tech giants pouring billions of dollars into artificial intelligence projects, it’s hard to see how startups can find their place and create successful business models that leverage AI. However, while fiercely competitive, the AI space is also constantly causing fundamental shifts in many sectors. And this creates the perfect environment for fast-thinking and -moving startups to carve a…
HappyFox today announced that it is using conversational AI to automatically resolve requests made to help or service desk platforms it supports via a Slack communications channel.
Assist AI from HappyFox analyzes each request made via Slack to determine if a way to solve…
HealthTensor, a Los Angeles, California-based startup creating software to augment medical decision-making, today announced it has raised $5 million. The company says the funds will be used to scale up operations and acquire new customers.
The global market for big data…
Student Hacks His Film Camera to Capture Circular Photos
February 2, 2021
Student and photographer Imran Nuri was driving alone one day when he started to think about photography and its shape. He asked himself “why are photos rectangular?” The answer might be obvious, but it also got him thinking about what it would be like to capture circular photos instead.
Circular photos are not new, the idea is not revolutionary, and the images captured have less information…
The demand for Fujifilm’s latest medium format camera, the newly-announced GFX100S, appears to have exceeded the company’s expectations as it has published a “notice of delay” on its website.
Published in Japanese, Fujifilm has stated that demand has exceeded the…
Sony has been pretty tight-lipped when it has come to publishing images taken with the newly-announced Alpha 1. The image embargo for reviewers doesn’t lift until later this week, but five full resolution promotional images have made their way online.
Since the sensor in…
Photographer Slices Up a Leica for Art
February 2, 2021
For his new project titled Heisenberg Objekt No. III, award-winning photographer Fabian Oefner has created an unusual scupture by slicing up quite an expensive “raw material”: a pristine Leica M6 rangefinder camera, which costs around $2,500 to $3,500 used.
To create the sculpture, Oefner encased the camera in a block of resin and then used a bandsaw to carefully cut the block into…
