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This Guy Hacked an Old Polaroid to Print Instant Photos on Thermal Paper

September 28, 2020
Electrical engineering student Sam Zeloof recently created something really cool. Using his ample do-it-yourself skills and engineering knowledge, he retrofitted an old Polaroid camera with a Raspberri Pi and thermal printer, turning it into an instant digital camera that prints photos on receipt paper. Zeloof shared the whole process in detail on IEEE Spectrum, and while it is definitely doable…
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90s Throwback: My Street Photos of New York City

September 28, 2020
The streets of New York City as a photo studio. That is the idea. Nearly 9 million people live in New York and another nearly 2 million travel to New York every day, so the streets are bursting with people. Back then, New York looked completely different than it does today…
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Facebook open-sources RAG, an AI model that retrieves documents to answer questions

September 28, 2020
Facebook and AI startup Hugging Face today open-sourced Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG), a natural language processing model that finds and interprets contextual information to complete a range of tasks. Facebook says that RAG can be tuned to attain state-of-the-art results by altering or supplementing its internal knowledge on the fly, enabling researchers to control what the model knows and…
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Sneak Peek: Lightroom is Getting Advanced Color Grading

September 28, 2020
Adobe revealed today that it’s bringing a powerful new Advanced Color Grading feature to Lightroom Classic, Lightroom, and Adobe Camera Raw. This 2-minute video offers a sneak peek at how the panel works. The new panel draws inspiration from the Lumetri Color panel found…
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Venus Optics brings its Laowa 9mm T2.9, 12mm T2.9 and 15mm T2.1 cine primes to Canon RF mount

September 28, 2020
Venus Optics has announced it’s now adding a Canon RF lens mount option for three of its ultra-wide cinema primes: the 9mm T2.9 ‘Zero-D’ lens, 12mm T2.9 ‘Zero-D’ lens and 15mm T2.1 ‘Zero-D.’ The 12mm T2.9 ‘Zero-D’ lens was released back in January of this year, while the 9mm T2.9 and 15mm T2.1 ‘Zero-D’ lenses were announced back in June of this year. At the time, the lenses…
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VW ID.4 spotted in wild in CA ahead of launch

September 28, 2020
We got our first look of the upcoming VW ID.4 at a private event last week, but now the car has shown up in public. Over the weekend, it was spotted by reddit user awang44 in a parking lot for a public park in Foster City, California, just a few miles from VW’s Innovation…
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Shazam for Android adds ability to listen to identified tracks in YouTube Music

September 28, 2020
Song identification stalwart Shazam has long been an essential for music discovery and sometimes just remembering that annoying earworm that you can’t quite pinpoint. For Shazam users though, it’s probably great to hear that you can now listen to identified tracks in YouTube Music. For those that might not be aware, Shazam was acquired by Apple back in 2018. Because of this acquisition, this…
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