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Voigtlander Unveils APO-Lanthar 50mm f/2 Aspherical for Leica M

Cosina has announced the Voigtlander APO-Lanthar 50mm f/2 Aspherical lens for Leica M-Mount cameras based on the E-Mount version the company released last year. The apochromat design is touted as able to produce “ultimate performance” of resolution and contrast. APO-Lanthar is the title Cosina Voigtlander gives to high-performance products among its line, with “outstanding imaging…
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Thoughts on the Nikon Z6 II for Wildlife Photography

I’ve had the Nikon Z6 II in my possession for the past three weeks and have been able to put the camera to use photographing birds, and I’d like to share my thoughts on the experience. Let me start by saying I am fully aware that three weeks isn’t necessarily long…
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Google’s Look to Speak taps gaze-tracking AI to help users with impairments communicate

Google today launched an experimental app for Android that leverages AI to make communication more accessible for people with speech and motor impairments. Called Look to Speak, it tracks eye movements to let people use their eyes to select prewritten, customizable phrases and have them spoken aloud. Approximately 18.5 million people in the U.S. have a speech, voice, or language impairment. Eye…
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Few researchers thoroughly test adversarial attacks on surveillance AI in the real world

Advances in machine learning, particularly in computer vision and facial recognition, have enabled systems deployed by governments and private corporations to erode expectations of privacy. Adversarial attacks, or techniques that attempt to fool models with deceptive images, videos, and text, are one way to combat surveillance. But in a new paper, researchers from Microsoft, Harvard, Swarthmore…
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Official: Trump to Attend the Army-Navy Game at West Point

President Donald J. Trump walks across Lincoln Financial Field in Philadelphia, Pa., Dec. 14, 2019, during the 120th Army-Navy Game. (Erik Estrada/U.S. Marine Corps) ANNAPOLIS, Md. — President Donald Trump is scheduled to attend this weekend’s Army–Navy…
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Samsung Galaxy F62 enters mass production, should arrive in Q1 2021

Samsung introduced the Galaxy F41 in October as the first member of its new Galaxy F series, and it is now working on the Galaxy F62, which was spotted on Geekbench last week. There’s no official word from Samsung about it yet, but a new report claims the F62 has entered production at Samsung’s facility in Greater Noida in India. It will be one of the slimmest smartphones from Samsung…
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