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Nikon Z9 launch: What Nikon means by 'a D3 moment' (and why it needs one)

All images by DPReview In our conversations with Nikon representatives, one phrase has come up again and again: ‘A D3 moment’. The company is hoping that the new Z9 will have the same impact on the mirrorless Z-mount lineup as the D3 did for its DSLRs. But what exactly does a ‘D3 moment’ mean? Picture this: Nikon is on the back foot. The company’s traditional…
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Tencent keeps investing in PUBG Mobile esports in the Americas

Join gaming leaders online at GamesBeat Summit Next this upcoming November 9-10. Learn more about what comes next.  PUBG Mobile is a huge gaming property with more than $6 billion in lifetime player spending. And while much of that success has been in Asia, Tencent…
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Activ Surgical harnesses AI and machine learning to collaborate with surgeons

Join gaming leaders online at GamesBeat Summit Next this upcoming November 9-10. Learn more about what comes next.  In 2016, Dr. Peter Kim, founder of Activ Surgical, a digital surgery company, demonstrated a proof of concept of fully autonomous robotic surgery on soft tissue, suturing, or stitching up a wound. Since then, Activ Surgical has been working on harnessing machine learning…
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Security AI is the next big thing

In the world of cybersecurity, speed kills. In less than 20 minutes, a skilled adversary can break into an organization’s network and start exfiltrating critical data assets, and as the volume of data modern companies produce increases, it’s becoming ever more difficult…
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Cnvrg.io develops on-demand service to run AI workloads across infrastructures

Cnvrg.io, the Intel-owned company that offers a platform to help data scientists build and deploy machine learning applications, has opened early access to a new managed service called Cnvrg.io Metacloud. The offering, as the company explains, gives AI developers the flexibility to run, test, and deploy AI and machine learning (ML) workloads on a mix of mainstream infrastructure and hardware…
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AT&T and H2O collab on feature store for AI developers

Telecom giant AT&T and Mountain View, California-headquartered AI cloud company H2O have jointly launched an artificial intelligence feature store for enterprises. The repository, available as a paid software platform, enables data scientists, developers, and engineers…
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How to Make Food Photos Pop in a Bright and Clean Set

If you follow food photographers on Instagram, I am sure you have seen some of the light or what I would describe as “airy” food photos that are popular at the moment. This dreamy, bright way of photographing food is a great way to make the food itself really pop and…
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Modern Floral Still-Life Photos Influenced from 45,000 Year-Old History

Every photographer has a humble beginning. Somewhere in the awkwardness is a pivotal moment that sends their photographic trajectory barrelling forward. Mine began on the reefs of the Indo-Pacific with a pocket-sized DSLR and underwater housing. It became my invaluable fieldwork aid and took thousands of crooked pictures of coral polyps before succumbing to the sand and salt. In a relatively…
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