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Tintypes Made Using Focusing Loupes As Lenses

May 12, 2021
This personal project was born of a lifelong pursuit of charting new paths upon the broad field of the artistic landscape, combined with an unexplained passion for vintage ground glass focusing loupes. I’ll never stop looking for magical yet unexplored ways in which to see the world, and translating those findings into the language of photography; this is but one such journey. A lot of people…
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DataRobot’s Zepl acquisition bridges the AI divide

May 12, 2021
Join Transform 2021 this July 12-16. Register for the AI event of the year. DataRobot revealed yesterday during an online AI Experience Worldwide conference that it has acquired Zepl as part of a larger effort to enable data scientists to customize AI models developed on…
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Asus Unveils the Zenfone 8 and Zenfone 8 Flip Smartphones

May 12, 2021
Asus has announced the Zenfone 8 and 8 Flip smartphones which feature similar camera sensors, but the latter allows the rear camera array to “flip” up and act as the front-facing camera. Asus Zenfone 8 The Zenfone 8 is Asus’s compact, an approachable model that is…
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The iPhone 13 Will Be Thicker and Camera Bump Larger: Report

May 12, 2021
via MacRumors A new report alleges that the iPhone 13 will be slightly thicker than the iPhone 12 and feature a camera bump that will grow in size but protrude outwards less than current models. According to a report on MacRumors, Apple may be trying to make its camera bump less noticeable by making the iPhone itself slightly thicker. Referencing schematics shared with the publication, MacRumors…
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Concept imagines a whole new approach to the iPhone notch

May 12, 2021
We’re expecting a smaller iPhone notch this year, but a designer has put together a concept with a whole new approach to the notch. Instead of a center notch to accommodate things like the front-facing camera and Face ID tech, designer Antonio De Rosa imagines lifting the…
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Security researcher exploits Find My network to send messages over any nearby iPhone’s data connection

May 12, 2021
The Find My network is used by Apple to report locations of items and devices via the data connection of any nearby iPhone, Mac, or other Apple device. Security researcher Fabian Bräunlein has today released a blog post demonstrating how the Find My network can be exploited as a generic data transfer mechanism. By faking the way that an AirTag broadcasts its location as an encrypted message, the…
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Xiaomi set to be removed from US trade blacklist

May 12, 2021
Xiaomi looks set to be removed from the controversial US trade blacklist after the US Department of Defense deemed the move “appropriate.” Bloomberg reports that the Chinese smartphone firm has won a US court appeal over the initial ban, with the US Defense Department…
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The best cases and covers for your Google Pixel 5 [Video]

May 12, 2021
We have collated some of our favorite and some of the “best” Pixel 5 cases and covers, having tested a fair few since the staggered release schedule of the “flagship” Made by Google phone for 2020. Of course, there’s more to smartphone cases than just protection, and because of that, not all cases are created equally — or with the same due care and attention. Yes, you can simply…
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