Category: Software & Technology
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ProPublica releases simple tool for searching Instagram
Link: ProPublica news application developer Al Shaw discovered an Instagram API that lets you search by both time and geographic coordinates
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Silicon Valley’s Youth Problem
Silicon Valley’s Youth Problem (Published 2014) In start-up land, the young barely talk to the old (and vice versa). That makes for a lot of cool apps. But great technology? Not so much. Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/16/magazine/silicon-valleys-youth-problem.html Cool exists at the ineffable confluence of smart people, big money and compelling product. You can buy it, but only…
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New service will rate the authenticity of digital images
Link: The Izitru website and iOS app can “distinguish an original JPEG file captured with a digital camera from subsequent derivations of that file that may have been changed in some way,” according to the company.
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Blink: 21st Century Rolodex – The Eye of Photography
Link: Blink is the visionary—and yet, now that it exists, obvious—idea of Julien Jourdes and Matt Craig, former photo editors at the Wall Street Journal. It brings together media professionals of all stripes: editors, agencies and, remarkably, freelancers.
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People Are Laughing at Your LinkedIn Profile
People Are Looking at Your LinkedIn Profile and They’re Laughing at You I mean, come on—you like racquetball and you list “social media” as a skill? What does that even mean? You know about Twitter and you own weird goggles? via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/humor/daily-shouts/people-laughing-linkedin-profile Browse the suggested connections, and don’t bother to think about…
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Lightroom mobile for Android phones now available
Link: The app is pretty much a 100% free version of Word Lens, an app that blew many a mind when it was launched back in 2010. You don’t even need any kind of Internet connection for it to work.
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Facial recognition technology is everywhere. It may not be legal. – The Washington Post
Facial recognition technology is everywhere. It may not be legal. Privacy advocates and representatives from companies like Facebook and Google will meet in the District to try to set rules for how companies should use this powerful technology. via Washington Post: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2015/06/11/facial-recognition-technology-is-everywhere-it-may-not-be-legal/ Anticipating the importance of this information, Texas passed a law in 2001 that…
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Storage for Photographers (Part 2) — PaulStamatiou.com
Storage for Photographers (Part 2) How a 12TB Synology DS415+ NAS changed my digital life: Data is eating me alive. Every gadget these days can shoot photos and record video. I captured 275GB of photos … via PaulStamatiou.com: http://paulstamatiou.com/storage-for-photographers-part-2/ Data is eating me alive. Every gadget these days can shoot photos and record video. The…
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Facebook Photo Magic Can Send Your Pictures to the People Seen in Them
Facebook Photo Magic Can Send Your Pictures to the People Seen in Them Facebook is in the process of rolling out a new feature in its Messenger app called Photo Magic. Using facial recognition, it scans through your new via PetaPixel: https://petapixel.com/2015/11/10/facebook-photo-magic-can-send-your-pictures-to-the-people-seen-in-them/ Facebook is in the process of rolling out a new feature in its…
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The Unsettling Future of Facial Recognition | PhotoShelter Blog
The Unsettling Future of Facial Recognition – PhotoShelter Blog The first time I witnessed a camera detect a face to aid the autofocus system, I was amazed. In part because the technology seemed magical and the highlighted rectangle tracking faces seemed like science fiction; in part because I seem to possess a talent for taking out-of-focus…
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Edward Snowden Explains How To Reclaim Your Privacy
Edward Snowden Explains How To Reclaim Your Privacy The NSA whistleblower sat down with The Intercept’s Micah Lee in Moscow. via The Intercept: https://theintercept.com/2015/11/12/edward-snowden-explains-how-to-reclaim-your-privacy/ What are some operational security practices you think everyone should adopt? Just useful stuff for average people.
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Photoshop CC 2015 and Fuse CC (Preview) Available Today With Bulked Up Offerings for Designers | Photoshop Blog by Adobe
Link: A few weeks ago at the Adobe MAX conference, we announced major updates to Adobe Photoshop CC 2015 and the new Adobe Fuse CC (Preview). Photoshop product manager Zorana Gee and product marketing manager Chantel Benson teased you in the MAX keynote with demos of just a small sample of the new features.
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Visual recognition goes mainstream : Clarifai launches the Forevery app – Kaptur
Visual recognition goes mainstream : Clarifai launches the Forevery app – Kaptur Powered by deep learning, visual recognition startup Clarifai launches its consumer app. Should Google worry ? via Kaptur: https://kaptur.co/visual-recognition-goes-mainstream-clarifai-launches-the-forevery-app/ Constructed entirely on the company’s award-winning deep learning visual recognition engine, the Forevery app might become the favorite companion of every mobile shutterbug out there
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How Memorable are TIME’s Top 10 Photos of the Year? | PhotoShelter Blog
How Memorable are TIME’s Top 10 Photos of the Year? – PhotoShelter Blog The braniacs at MIT have created an algorithm to determine the “memorability” of a photograph. The deep learning-based technology “learned” what makes a photo memorable by evaluating the rankings from 5,000 human volunteers, and even indicates which portions of an image it considers…
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Google Unveils Neural Network with “Superhuman” Ability to Determine the Location of Almost Any Image
Google Unveils Neural Network with “Superhuman” Ability to Determine the Location of Almost Any Image Guessing the location of a randomly chosen Street View image is hard, even for well-traveled humans. But Google’s latest artificial-intelligence machine manages it with relative ease. via MIT Technology Review: https://www.technologyreview.com/2016/02/24/161885/google-unveils-neural-network-with-superhuman-ability-to-determine-the-location-of-almost/ Their new machine significantly outperforms humans and can even…
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104 Photo Editing Tools You Should Know About
104 Photo Editing Tools You Should Know About Hello, photographers. For the last two months, I’ve been doing market research for my project Photolemur and looking for different tools in the area of via PetaPixel: https://petapixel.com/2016/08/30/104-photo-editing-tools-know/ From its earliest days, still photography’s ability to freeze action has naturally complemented the fast-moving world of sports. “To…
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Google releases iPhone version of Cardboard Camera app for taking VR photos | 9to5Mac
Google releases iPhone version of Cardboard Camera app for taking VR photos – 9to5Mac Previously available on Android only, Google today released its Cardboard Camera app for iPhone and iPad alongside new features for… via 9to5Mac: https://9to5mac.com/2016/09/12/google-iphone-ipad-cardboard-camera-app-vr-photos/ The app allows users to capture and share three-dimensional panoramas that Google calls VR Photos and share them…
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AI Can Recognize Your Face Even If You’re Pixelated | WIRED
AI Can Recognize Your Face Even If You’re Pixelated Hackers can train artificial neural networks to recognize objects, read text, and even identify faces in obfuscated images. via WIRED: https://www.wired.com/2016/09/machine-learning-can-identify-pixelated-faces-researchers-show/ Researchers at the University of Texas at Austin and Cornell Tech say that they’ve trained a piece of software that can undermine the privacy benefits…
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Adobe DNG Leads the Way for High-Quality Photos on Smartphones and Tablets | Photoshop Blog by Adobe
Link: Many of you know Thomas Knoll as the man behind Photoshop, but he’s also the architect responsible for the creation of the Adobe DNG file format. Now that Adobe DNG is integrated into iOS and Android and is the default raw format for high-quality mobile photography, we’ve asked Thomas to discuss the history and…
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Google’s Image Captioning AI Can Describe Photos with 94% Accuracy
Google’s Image Captioning AI Can Describe Photos with 94% Accuracy Well, you can add “captioning photos” to the list of jobs robots will soon be able to do just as well as humans. After some training, the latest version via PetaPixel: https://petapixel.com/2016/09/23/googles-image-captioning-ai-can-describe-photos-94-accuracy/ Show and Tell is in the news today because Google actually made the…