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Tesla with Autopilot engaged approaches 10x lower chance of accident than average car: here’s the data

April 18, 2021
Elon Musk claims that Tesla with Autopilot engaged approaches 10 times lower chance of accident than the average car. Here’s the data he is basing this claim on. Since 2018, Tesla has been trying to create a benchmark for its improvement in Autopilot safety by releasing a quarterly report that compares the number of miles per accident on Autopilot versus off Autopilot. Today, Tesla released…
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Why Are So Many Cameras Limited by Design?

April 17, 2021
Expensive cameras often lack basic features. The most common limitations-by-design are fixed screens and no flash. I suspect that some camera designers aren’t photographers and don’t realize how much these two features will be missed. Let’s consider these two limitations. Other limitations will be discussed later in this article. Cameras with Fixed Screens A movable screen has many uses, yet…
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The First-Ever Camera Collar Footage Shot by a Wild Wolf

April 17, 2021
You can now see the world from a wolf’s point of view. This 3-minute video is the first-ever camera collar footage shot from the perspective of a wild wolf. The video was released by the Voyageurs Wolf Project, which studies wolves in the Greater Voyageurs Ecosystem of…
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Why Microsoft’s new AI acquisition is a big deal

April 17, 2021
Join Transform 2021 this July 12-16. Register for the AI event of the year. Microsoft’s recent shopping spree reached a new climax this week with the announcement of its $19.7 billion acquisition of Nuance, a company that provides speech recognition and conversational AI services. Nuance is best known for its deep learning voice transcription service, which is very popular in the health care…
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Apple iPhone 13 in Product Red appears in renders

April 17, 2021
While we’re still a good 5-6 months away from Apple’s next iPhone reveal, rumors about the iPhone 13 have already begun circulating and now leakster David Kowalski (@xleaks7) has teamed up with to share CAD-based renders of the Product Red iPhone 13. The overall design remains similar to the iPhone 12 series with flat sides, and a notch though the cutout is visible smaller this time around.
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