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Watch Tesla’s Full Self-Driving Beta detect and avoid a deer crossing the road at night

December 4, 2020
Tesla’s Full Self-Driving Beta system was caught on video impressively detecting and avoiding a deer crossing the road at night. Watch the video below. Over the last few months, Tesla has been pushing its Full Self-Driving (FSD) Beta software to a limited group of Tesla vehicle owners in order to test an early version of the company’s autonomous driving system. The name can be confusing…
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Video: One man's quest to watercool a Canon R5 into an 8K video powerhouse

December 4, 2020
This July, Canon released a media advisory clarifying the overheating concerns of early Canon EOS R5 and R6 users. After Lensrentals took apart the R5, we better understood the thermal constraints of the design. The camera is very tightly sealed, which is great when you want to keep water out, but not so great when you want heat to escape. In its media release, Canon stated the approximate…
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iOS engineers detail Apple’s approach to improving accessibility with iOS 14

December 4, 2020
Apple just gave an overhaul to its accessibility landing page to better highlight the native features in macOS and iOS that allow user’s devices to “work the way you do” and encourage everyone to “make something wonderful.” Now a new interview with Apple’s accessibility and AI/ML engineers goes into more detail on the company’s approach to improving accessibility with iOS 14. iOS…
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Google wants to offer an audio version of every book using auto-generated narrators

December 4, 2020
Today, only the top books get audio versions narrated by professionals given that recording is a time-consuming process that doesn’t necessarily scale to every published work. Google is now working on auto-generated narrators that turn any book into an audiobook.  This feature is intended to benefit the Google Play Books store by making many more audio titles, with their inherent convenience…
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