Category: Software & Technology
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LDV Vision Summit : A recap – Kaptur
LDV Vision Summit : A recap – Kaptur Each edition of the LDV Vision Summit reveals something more about the visual tech. This year was no exception ….. via Kaptur: http://kaptur.co/ldv-vision-summit-a-recap/ The 2016 edition, which just closed a few days ago, did not disappoint. In a field where breakthroughs are seemingly far between, there is…
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It’s coming! The Internet of Eyes will allow objects to see – Kaptur
It’s coming! The Internet of Eyes will allow objects to see – Kaptur In the near future, every inanimate object we interact with may not only have the ability to see but could also improve our lives… via Kaptur: http://kaptur.co/its-coming-the-internet-of-eyes-will-allow-objects-to-see/ I call this all-seeing market opportunity the Internet of Eyes (IoEyes), and it will empower…
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Face recognition app taking Russia by storm may bring end to public anonymity | Technology | The Guardian
Face recognition app taking Russia by storm may bring end to public anonymity FindFace compares photos to profile pictures on social network Vkontakte and works out identities with 70% reliability via the Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/may/17/findface-face-recognition-app-end-public-anonymity-vkontakte FindFace compares photos to profile pictures on social network Vkontakte and works out identities with 70% reliability
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Russian Photographer’s Experiment Destroys the Illusion of Privacy
Russian Photographer’s Experiment Destroys the Illusion of Privacy Russian photographer and art student Egor Tsvetkov used his own photos and a facial recognition app to destroy any illusion of privacy we might have with via PetaPixel: http://petapixel.com/2016/04/13/photog-matches-photos-taken-subway/ He put his photos into an app called FindFace to see if it could identify the people he…
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Why Instagram Is Changing (Spoiler Alert: Money)
Why Instagram Is Changing (Spoiler Alert: Money) | PDNPulse Photographers have reacted harshly to Instagram’s decision to uproot chronological posting in favor of an algorithmically sorted feed. This sucks @instagram Company Will Change the Way You See Posts @pdnonline #Instagram #SocialMediaMarketing https://t.co via PDNPulse: http://pdnpulse.pdnonline.com/2016/03/instagram-changes.html Photographers have reacted harshly to Instagram’s decision to uproot chronological…
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Is Instagram dying of a slow death ? – Kaptur
Is Instagram dying of a slow death ? – Kaptur With engagement rates falling, Instagram might be near a tipping point. Can it continue to feed its advertising engine without losing its user base ? via Kaptur: http://kaptur.co/instagram-dying-slow-death/ However, Instagram series of effort have been almost entirely aimed at pleasing advertisers, with the troubling effect…
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Instagram Knows Best: Company Will Change the Way You See Posts
Instagram Knows Best: Company Will Change the Way You See Posts | PDNPulse Instagram is making a move to be more like its owner, Facebook. In a blog post today, the popular social network said it would begin algorithmically sorting posts to surface what it thinks you want to see, irrespective of when that content…
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I’m Gonna Pass On That VR Thing | PhotoShelter Blog
I’m Gonna Pass on That VR Thing – PhotoShelter Blog “Future’s made of virtual insanity now Always seem to be govern’d by this love we have For useless, twisting, our new technology Oh, now there is no sound – for we all live underground” – Virtual Insanity, Jamiroquai I spent the better part of last…
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Visualizing User-Generated Content to Better Understand Humanity – Kaptur
Visualizing User-Generated Content to Better Understand Humanity – Kaptur Making sense of the trillions of user-generated content is an emerging science full of great potential. Here are some of its first steps… via Kaptur: http://kaptur.co/visualizing-user-generated-content-to-better-understand-humanity/ When I saw it in 2005, exactly 10 years ago, I had this “aha” moment and I imagined: What if I…
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Douglas Rushkoff: ‘I’m thinking it may be good to be off social media altogether’ | Technology | The Guardian
Douglas Rushkoff: ‘I’m thinking it may be good to be off social media altogether’ The media critic on the malfunctioning tech economy, digital detoxes and why Facebook is unhygienic via the Guardian: http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/feb/12/digital-capitalism-douglas-rushkoff Professionally, I’m thinking it may be good for one’s career and business to be off social media altogether. Chris Anderson was wrong.…
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LDV Vision Summit : Computational Photography and video – Kaptur
LDV Vision Summit : Computational Photography and video – Kaptur First in a series of LDV Vision Summit panels : Computational photography and video via Kaptur: http://kaptur.co/ldv-vision-summit-computational-photography-and-video/ As a refresher for those who did make it and a discovery for those who couldn’t, we will be publishing a series of transcripts from last year’s LDV…
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Photography Without a Lens? Future of Images May Lie in Data – The New York Times
Photography Without a Lens? Future of Images May Lie in Data the camera as we know it is changing. A revolution in digital imaging research could surpass the camera obscura in almost every technical way: resolution, size and energy efficiency. It’s called computational photography
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What Google’s new open source TensorFlow and Cloud Vision API mean for photo app developers – Kaptur
What Google’s new open source TensorFlow and Cloud Vision API mean for photo app developers – Kaptur Will Google Cloud Vision disrupt the photo app landscape or is it too late ? via Kaptur: http://kaptur.co/what-googles-new-open-source-tensorflow-and-cloud-vision-api-mean-for-photo-app-developers/ So what exactly are these technologies? How will they impact existing image recognition API developers? And how useful could they…
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Lightroom’s Import is 600% Slower Than Competition Adobe has already apologized for fumbling its latest Lightroom update, which was riddled with bugs and missing features. Now there’s a new story that’s via PetaPixel: http://petapixel.com/2015/10/13/lightroom-import-is-600-slower-than-competition/ Over the weekend, reclusive North Korea held a massive military parade and numerous other mass performances to commemorate the 70th anniversary…
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Lightroom 6.2 Release Update and Apology
Lightroom 6.2 Release Update and Apology The team will continue to work hard to earn your trust back in subsequent releases and I look forward to reigniting the type of dialog we started in 2006.
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Can Software Judge the Quality of Your Photos?
Can Software Judge the Quality of Your Photos? EyeEm’s new software can automatically tag photos. It can also tell you if your photograph is esthetically pleasing. Is this the future? via PDNPulse: http://pdnpulse.pdnonline.com/2015/09/eyeem-eyevision-software.html Can we trust algorithms to pass judgement on what constitutes a “beautiful” image or is that criteria so subjective that it doesn’t really matter…
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Image Scaling using Deep Convolutional Neural Networks — Flipboard Engineering
Image Scaling using Deep Convolutional Neural Networks The problem in the case of scaling the image to a larger size is when there are too many ‘new’ values to be filled in the image. These algorithms try to make “guesses” of what the new values should be but this introduces errors in the process which…
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Open sourcing Grid, the Guardian’s new image management service | Info | The Guardian
Open sourcing Grid, the Guardian’s new image management service This is the story of how we are building Grid, the Guardian’s new image management system, working very closely with our editorial colleagues and using a modern technology stack. Oh, and it’s all Open Source. via the Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/info/developer-blog/2015/aug/12/open-sourcing-grid-image-service This is the story of how we…
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Study: Flickr Photos Can Predict People’s Movements
Study: Flickr Photos Can Predict People’s Movements Before you head out for your next vacation, you may want to consider what your photos on Flickr reveal about your travel plans. A new study published in via PetaPixel: http://petapixel.com/2015/08/12/study-flickr-photos-can-predict-peoples-movements/ As photography goes beyond a daily or even hourly exchange, it stops becoming a distraction from life;…
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The ethics of modern web ad-blocking – Marco.org
The ethics of modern web ad-blocking Web ads are dramatically different from prior ad media, though — rather than just being printed on paper or inserted into a broadcast, web ads are software. They run arbitrary code on your computer, which can (and usually does) collect and send data about you and your behavior back…