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Twitch will shut down its live karaoke game on January 1st

September 6, 2020
Twitch Sings will bid karaoke fans farewell after 2020. The Amazon subsidiary has announced that it’s shutting down the live karaoke game on January 1st, 2021, less than two years after it was officially launched. In its announcement, Twitch says it decided to close the platform to “invest in broader tools and services that will help support and grow the entire music community on…
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Underwater Camera Reveals the Weird Way Flamingos Eat

September 5, 2020
You may have seen flamingos stick their heads into water to feed before, but have you ever seen what it looks like from under the surface? The San Diego Zoo set up an underwater camera that captures the fascinating way the long-legged birds eat. “These pretty in pink birds feed by sucking in water and mud at the front of their bills, then pumping it out at the sides,” the San Diego Zoo writes…
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Canon R5 and R6: Comparing the File Formats (RAW, CRAW, JPEG, and HEIF)

September 5, 2020
In my last article, I shot images with both the Canon R5 and Canon R6 to compare the ISO performance of both cameras. As always, this lead to a lot of comments, emails, and DMs asking me if I could also compare the different file formats of these cameras. While I still have both these cameras on loan from Canon, I decided that now would be a good time to tests these parameters for all of you (and…
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Nvidia’s DLSS AI-upscaling SDK now supports VR

September 5, 2020
Nvidia’s DLSS neural upscaling technology now works with virtual reality titles. In a Reddit comment yesterday Nvidia’s Randy Niu revealed the change. It’s also now listed in the DLSS Unreal Engine changelog. Deep Learning Super Sampling (DLSS) uses the Tensor cores…
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Read Epic’s new, full argument why a court should force Apple to reinstate Fortnite

September 5, 2020
Shortly before midnight on the Friday before Labor Day weekend — we’re curious about the timing — Epic Games pushed the button on its next legal action against Apple’s ban on the immensely popular Fortnite. There was no question that Epic would file for a preliminary injunction against Apple in an attempt to force the iPhone maker to bring Fortnite back to the App Store — hearings were…
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