Lux.camera: The iPhone 16 Pro Camera Review: Control
Ben and I have an annual ritual. For the last half decade, around this time of year, we run to the store, hastily unbox the latest iPhone and get shooting. We do this because we’re passionate about finding out everything there is to know about the new camera — not just to make sure things work well with Halide, but also because no other camera has as many changes year over year.
A byproduct of this ritual? A pretty thorough iPhone review.
Raspberry Pi: AI Camera on sale now at $70
The AI Camera is built around a Sony IMX500 image sensor with an integrated AI accelerator. It can run a wide variety of popular neural network models, with low power consumption and low latency, leaving the processor in your Raspberry Pi free to perform other tasks.
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you’ll find instructions on installing the AI Camera hardware, setting up the software environment, and running the examples and neural networks in our model zoo.
Scientific American: Evidence of ‘Negative Time’ Found in Quantum Physics Experiment
Quantum physicists are familiar with wonky, seemingly nonsensical phenomena: atoms and molecules sometimes act as particles, sometimes as waves; particles can be connected to one another by a “spooky action at a distance,” even over great distances; and quantum objects can detach themselves from their properties like the Cheshire Cat from Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland detaches itself from its grin. Now researchers led by Daniela Angulo of the University of Toronto have revealed another oddball quantum outcome: photons, wave-particles of light, can spend a negative amount of time zipping through a cloud of chilled atoms. In other words, photons can seem to exit a material before entering it.
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NYT: Vance Dodged a Jan. 6 Question in the Debate, but Said Plenty
For some 90 minutes, Mr. Vance, a proud Republican ambassador to the online right, had largely tailored his debate-night message to a mass audience, avoiding most detours into conservative fever swamps, as if determined to deliver a rolling rebuttal to Democrats' longstanding suggestion that he was “weird” and out of step.
But when the debate turned, near its final frames, to the subject of the 2020 election, Mr. Vance faced a choice: He could validate, once more, Donald J. Trump’s relentless lies about his defeat four years ago. Or he could try something else in the spirit of moving forward.
Entrepreneur: Bill Gates Says He Would Tax The Rich, Including Himself
Does Bill Gates, the sixth richest person in the world with a net worth of $163 billion, think he’s too rich?
Gates avoided answering “yes” or “no” in a September episode of the Netflix series “What’s Next? The Future with Bill Gates.” Instead, he stated that it was “kind of wild” that billionaires even existed.
“It’s a huge amount of wealth, which if you even tried to consume it would be kind of absurd,” he said.
On a podcast episode of On with Kara Swisher, which aired Monday, Gates specified that he would set up a different tax framework for the ultra-wealthy if he were in charge of tax policies, and set the rate around 62%.
Thursday 03.Oct.2024
ScienceAlert: Most Powerful Solar Flare in 7 Years Blasts Earth: Expect Stunning Auroras
The Sun just unleashed the most powerful flare we’ve seen in seven years.
On October 3, a flare measured at a strength of X9.0 exploded right in the middle of the solar disk. Even more excitingly, it was accompanied by what is known as a halo coronal mass ejection – one that is ejected straight at Earth.
It’s the second X-class flare of October 2024, both emitted from the same active sunspot region, and the most powerful since September 2017, when the Sun unleashed a ripper, later determined to clock in at X11.88.
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Electric currents generated high up in the atmosphere can result in power grid fluctuations, and voltage corrections may need to be applied, for example. There is increased drag on satellites, which can require course correction. Satellite communications and GPS can be disrupted.
Last Updated: 03.Oct.2024 23:43 EDT
