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French Officials Use Satellite Photos and AI to Spot Unregistered Pools

France is estimated to have about 3.2 million private swimming pools, but many of them are unregistered. Authorities are using satellite photos and AI to find them to recover about €10 million in unpaid taxes. The system has been developed by Google and French IT company Capgemini and was deployed by the French tax office to spot private residential swimming pools that were…
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Tamron is developing a 70–300mm F4.5–6.3 Di III RXD lens for Nikon's Z-mount

Tamron has announced it’s developing a 70–300mm F4.5–6.3 Di III RXD lens for Nikon Z-mount camera systems. This would make it the first third-party zoom lens for Nikon Z-mount cameras with autofocus capabilities. Based on the external design and the specifications that are mentioned, this ‘new’ lens appears to be a Z-mount version of the company’s 70–300mm F4.5–6.3 Di III RXD lens…
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Galaxy Z Fold 4 holds up to dust in torture test, but nothing has changed from older models [Video]

Foldable smartphones have come a long way since launch, but even Samsung’s latest and greatest ship with a huge list of warnings for how you should treat the device. In a torture test putting the Galaxy Z Fold 4 through the worst of the worst, it holds up well to dust and dirt, but that’s not really a surprise. Zach from the JerryRigEverything channel this week published his routine torture…
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CoAuthor: Stanford experiments with human-AI collaborative writing

Were you unable to attend Transform 2022? Check out all of the summit sessions in our on-demand library now! Watch here. This article is an existential crisis. It is written by a professional writer writing about artificial intelligence that helps writers write. There’s a lot of nagging doubt in my mind about this. Is that okay? I mean, shouldn’t humans write their own content? And does…
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