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Adobe Launches Native Apple M1 Support for Lightroom Classic

Hot on the heels of Capture One, Adobe has finally brought native Apple silicon support for Lightroom Classic. In addition to promising straight performance improvements, Adobe is also adding several new features — like Super Resolution — to the popular photo editor. Adobe’s June Release for Creative Cloud has a ton of improvements across its entire suite of applications, but photographers…
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9 of History’s Rarest Lenses That You Can Actually Buy

Through the history of camera development, thousands and thousands of different types of lenses have been designed and produced. Some did not advance beyond the prototype stage, some were privately commissioned, and naturally many were mass-produced to one degree or another.
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Scientists Create Cyborg Cockroach Camera for Search and Rescue

A group of international robotics researchers has developed an urban search and rescue solution that skirts past the current limitations of miniature robotics through what they are calling an insect computer hybrid system, which fuses a living insect platform with a microcontroller. The researchers say that there is still a long way to go before miniature robotics are ready for true search and…
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IBM releases AI model toolkit to help developers measure uncertainty

Elevate your enterprise data technology and strategy at Transform 2021. At its Digital Developer Conference today, IBM open-sourced Uncertainty Quantification 360 (UQ360), a new toolkit focused on enabling AI to understand and communicate its uncertainty. Following in the footsteps of IBM’s AI Fairness 360 and AI Explainability 360, the goal of UQ360 is to foster community practices across…
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AI-powered transcription startup Verbit raises $157M

Elevate your enterprise data technology and strategy at Transform 2021. Verbit today announced the close of a $157 million series D round that the company says will bolster its product R&D and hiring efforts. CEO Tom Livne, who noted that the raise brings the…
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The XTAR SN4 is a 7-in-1 Modular Camera Battery Charger

XTAR has launched a Kickstarter for a modular seven-in-one camera battery charger that promises to save space, time, and money and supports major camera brands and accessories with the promise of more to be added in the future. Based in Shenzhen, China, XTAR is an…
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iOS 15 portrait video and audio effects can be enabled in third-party apps like Snapchat, not just FaceTime

As part of iOS 15, Apple announced a handful of new video and audio effects that help boost your camera and mic quality, especially for videoconferencing. Features include Portrait video (background blur) mode and voice isolation microphone adjustments. In the keynote, these features were presented as being available inside of FaceTime. It turns out that Apple has implemented these effects…
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