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DJI launches a new website for professional cinematographers and filmmakers
Dec 18, 2018
Dunja Đuđić
DJI has just launched a dedicated website for professional cinematographers and filmmakers. According to the company, DJI Pro is created to provide “comprehensive user experience…
This website automatically removes background from your photos in a few seconds
Dec 18, 2018
Dunja Đuđić
There are different techniques for cutting out a subject from an image and placing it onto a different background. But now there’s a website that…
These portraits are entirely AI-generated, these people are not real
Dec 18, 2018
Dunja Đuđić
We’ve seen NVIDIA’s impressive content aware tool and noise removing tool. They have recently developed a generative adversarial network (GAN) which easily customizes styles of…
All Canon EF mount lenses may become soft focus lenses with new EOS R adapter
Dec 17, 2018
John Aldred
A new Canon patent spotted by the folks at Northlight Images shows a design for a new Canon EF to RF mount lens adapter. What’s so…
The dark truth behind the sensor size wars… Or is it?
Dec 17, 2018
John Aldred
If you want to learn about the real history of the digital camera sensor size wars, then you probably should watch a different video. But…
Missing photographer Lu Guang was arrested, Chinese police confirms
Dec 17, 2018
Dunja Đuđić
Award-winning Chinese photographer Lu Guang went missing in early November. His wife Xu Xiaoli claimed that he was taken away by national security officers, and…
Mexican authorities are investigating an alleged drone collision with Boeing 737 passenger plane
Dec 15, 2018
John Aldred
Drones meeting “real aircraft” seems to be hitting the news more and more often these days. And right now the reports from social media are…
Major Photos API bug on Facebook exposed 6.8 million users private photos
Dec 15, 2018
John Aldred
Facebook has today disclosed a major bug that existed on the platform for 12 days between September 13th and September 25th, 2018. The bug has…
Taylor Swift used facial recognition tech to identify stalkers at her concert
Dec 14, 2018
Dunja Đuđić
On 18 May this year, Taylor Swift’s fans could watch rehearsal clips at her concert at Los Angeles venue Rose Bowl. The clips were played…
NASA just released the first photograph shot inside the Sun’s corona
Dec 14, 2018
John Aldred
NASA’s Parker Solar Probe’s goal is to help us answer some of the big questions we have about the Sun. In order to do that, it…