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World’s longest AF SLR lens, the Canon EF 1200mm F5.6, comes up for sale at auction in Germany

June 10, 2021
A used unit of Canon’s EF 1200mm F5.6 L USM lens is set to come up for sale at an auction in Germany slated for 6th October. At 0.8m (2′ 7″) and weighing a massive 16.5kg (36lbs), the lens offered the world’s longest focal length for an interchangeable SLR lens with autofocus when it was introduced in July 1993, and to the best of my knowledge, that record still holds true.
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Battlefield 2042 to debut on October 22 on consoles and PC

June 9, 2021
Elevate your enterprise data technology and strategy at Transform 2021. Electronic Arts and its DICE studio today revealed details of Battlefield 2042, a modern online multiplayer shooter game coming October 22 for the PC, PlayStation, and Xbox (both the newer and older…
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Facebook proposes NetHack as a grand challenge in AI research

June 9, 2021
Elevate your enterprise data technology and strategy at Transform 2021. Facebook today proposed NetHack as a grand challenge for AI research, for which the company is launching a competition at the NeurIPS 2021 AI conference in Sydney, Australia. It’s Facebook’s assertion that NetHack, an ’80s video game with simple visuals that’s considered among the hardest in the world, can enable…
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How AI and mosquito sex parties can save the world

June 9, 2021
Elevate your enterprise data technology and strategy at Transform 2021. Diptera.ai has raised a $3 million seed round to fight mosquitoes with mosquitoes — and AI-based sex sorting. Jerusalem-based Diptera.ai has figured out a way to use AI to fight the growing threat…
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Google used reinforcement learning to design next-gen AI accelerator chips

June 9, 2021
Elevate your enterprise data technology and strategy at Transform 2021. In a preprint paper published a year ago, scientists at Google Research including Google AI lead Jeff Dean described an AI-based approach to chip design that could learn from past experience and improve over time, becoming better at generating architectures for unseen components. They claimed it completed designs in under…
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How edge AI can make enterprises more agile

June 9, 2021
Elevate your enterprise data technology and strategy at Transform 2021. The pandemic has accelerated the adoption of edge computing, or computation and data storage that’s located close to where it’s needed. According to the Linux Foundation’s State of the Edge…
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How to Plan Out Milky Way Photos

June 9, 2021
Plan your work and work your plan. That’s what… someone important once told me? Anyhow, in my opinion, planning out your Milky Way shots is absolutely one of the best ways to increase the likelihood you will be shooting bangers. Aloha! My name is Daniel Stein, and I’m a nightscape photographer based in New Jersey. In this article, I will be talking about how to read the weather, Moon phases…
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