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Tesla (TSLA) gets stock price boost on strong delivery expectations

December 31, 2020
Tesla’s stock price (TSLA) is pushing higher on people trying to figure out if it can hit its delivery target with only a few days left in the quarter. One analyst is raising the expectations. As we have been reporting over the last few weeks, Tesla aims to deliver a record number of vehicles this quarter to achieve 500,000 deliveries in 2020 — a long-time goal for the automaker. In order to…
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This is How Lightroom Mobile Works on the Zeiss ZX1

December 30, 2020
Announced in 2018, we’re finally starting to get a look at the $6,000 Zeiss ZX1. The camera is designed to be a photo capture, edit, and share device, and as such runs Lightroom Mobile right on the rear LCD. Outside of making edits to photos taken with your Apple or Android smartphone, to this point it’s been less common for photographers to use Lightroom Mobile as the main editing platform…
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How to Turn Any Camera into a Webcam, No App Required

December 30, 2020
This past year has seen pretty much every major camera manufacturer release software that allows for a set of cameras to work as a webcam for your computer. But what if your camera isn’t supported? Luckily, there is a cheap, easy solution to that. Canon, Nikon, Sony…
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The immense potential and challenges of multimodal AI

December 30, 2020
Unlike most AI systems, humans understand the meaning of text, videos, audio, and images together in context. For example, given text and an image that seem innocuous when considered apart (e.g., “Look how many people love you” and a picture of a barren desert), people recognize that these elements take on potentially hurtful connotations when they’re paired or juxtaposed. While systems…
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Should You Buy a Used Camera?

December 30, 2020
Recently, we had a private Facebook group member ask what others thought about buying a used digital camera. The response was around 70% for and 30% against. Those odds aren’t that bad. But, with your money on the line, do you want to take a chance your used digital camera…
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Watch the Boston Dynamics robot family dance like 2020 was a good year

December 30, 2020
With a namesake like Atlas, you wouldn’t think Boston Dynamics’ bipedal robot would be the most lithe specimen on the planet. But then we’ve already seen it has a knack for parkouring, and now you can add dancing to its list of talents. In its latest sure-to-be viral video, we see Atlas and the entire Boston Dynamics family, including the dog-like Spot and box-stacking Handle, dance to “Do…
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