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Twitch clarifies its ban on terrorist and extremist content

October 5, 2020
Twitch has updated its community guidelines to clarify its ban on terrorist and extremist content. It said that it’s doing so to “reinforce the fact that this type of content has no place on Twitch.” We’ve clarified our policy prohibiting terrorist and extremist content. View the Violence and Threats section of the Community Guidelines for further details: https://t.co/E2LKDBPnBv…
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NVIDIA wants to make video calls better with AI

October 5, 2020
Video calling has become more common than ever following the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. To help your calls look and sound better, NVIDIA has unveiled an AI-powered suite of tools that video call app developers can tap into. NVIDIA Maxine powers a range of features…
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This Guy Prints Color Photos with Dirt

October 5, 2020
Photographer Calvin Grier is a master of the alternative photography process known as carbon transfer printing, but for the past few months, he has been taking things to a new level. Grier is creating full color photographic prints using dirt. Carbon transfer prints use…
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Stop Upscaling and Colorizing Photos and Videos, Historians Say

October 5, 2020
Colorizing and updating photos and footage from the past is becoming more common and much easier thanks to the advancements of AI. We’ve shared stories and images of colorized images and videos many times over the past decade, and colorists say it is designed to bring the past forward for a modern audience. However, there are some historians who believe the process is doing more harm than…
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I Shot All These Photos from My Yard — Here’s How You Can Do It Too

October 5, 2020
As recently as the early 1900s, astronomers believed the Milky Way was all that existed in the universe. That view persisted until 1923, when Edwin Hubble used glass plate photographs of the Andromeda galaxy (then still thought to be just a nebula) to discover that the universe was unimaginably larger. His discovery was so significant that NASA’s first space telescope was given his name. In 1990…
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Zeiss’ ZX1 Android-Powered Camera Costs $6,000

October 5, 2020
Announced nearly two years ago, Zeiss’ compact Android-powered fixed-lens camera finally has a price: $6,000. While this is likely more than most thought Zeiss would ask for the camera, Zeiss seems to be banking on the value of an all-in-one experience. Because the ZX1 runs a version of Android and is Wi-Fi compatible, Zeiss was able to bake-in a version of Adobe Photoshop Lightroom allowing for…
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