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Tesla Gigafactory Texas hits hyperspeed with giant building coming up, new job postings

January 6, 2021
Tesla Gigafactory Texas, which is a big part of Tesla’s growth story in 2021, is hitting hyperspeed with a giant building coming up and new job postings. Tesla Gigafactory Texas In mid-2020, Tesla announced a deal to build a brand new factory in Austin, Texas, where they bought a 2,000-acre piece of land. At first, Tesla referred to the factory as the Cybertruck Gigafactory because the…
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MobileNews

Google Docs adds Smart Compose, autocorrect to comments

January 6, 2021
Since Smart Compose launched in Gmail at I/O 2018, the machine learning feature has expanded to more users and other products. In Google Docs, the helpful tool, along with autocorrect, is now available when commenting. After the email app, Smart Compose in late 2019 came…
DefenseNews

Israel, Greece sign $1.7 billion deal for Air Force training

January 6, 2021
JERUSALEM — As part of a $1.68 billion deal between Israel and Greece — the largest-ever defense agreement between the two countries — the Hellenic Air Force will acquire 10 M-346 aircraft and Israel’s Elbit Systems will establish a flight school and maintain…
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OmniVision reveals new 32MP OV32B selfie image sensor with 0.7 micron pixels, 1080p180 video capture and more

January 6, 2021
OmniVision Technologies has revealed the details of the OV32B, a new 32MP 1/3” image sensor for front-facing cameras in smartphones. The OV32B is built on OmniVision’s PureCel Plus stacked die technology and its pixels measure 0.7 microns across. The sensor integrates a 4-cell color filter array as well as on-chip hardware re-mosaicing and 2–3 exposure HDR timing. In low-light conditions…
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Shooting Portraits with a Giant IMAX Lens on a Canon EOS R

January 5, 2021
In an endeavor that seems to be driven only by curiosity, Photographer Jay P. Morgan modded an old IMAX lens to allow it to work with his Canon EOS R. But just getting the lens to work wasn’t enough, as Morgan decided to take the lens way out of its element: street portraiture. The giant lens was made by Iwerks Entertainment, a company founded in 1985. While it is now known as SimEx-Iwerks…
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AI & RoboticsNews

Cox acquires AI/3D scanner maker Fyusion to aid used car dealerships

January 5, 2021
When car dealers sell new vehicles, customers can rely on manufacturer-provided 3D models that look exactly like the cars they’re about to purchase. But that isn’t the case for used cars, which commonly have dings and other issues that must be disclosed to prospective buyers. To aid in the vehicle imaging and disclosure process, media conglomerate Cox Enterprises today announced it is…
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