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GoPro's 'Bones' is a stripped down Hero 10 Black for FPV drones
GoPro has unveiled the Hero 10 Black Bones, a lightweight version of the Hero 10 Black designed for FPV and "Cinewhoop" drones that have taken off in popularity. It offers features like HyperSmooth 4.0 and 5.3K video, but is light enough to be mounted on 3-inch class and larger drones. "Bones is an important step in our strategy to leverage GoPro's core camera-technology to produce derivative products that address the needs of a specific audience of customers," said GoPro founder and CEO Nicholas Woodman. "Bones delivers Hero 10 Black image quality and performance in a lightweight body that is ideal for aerial cinematography." At 54 grams, the Hero 10 Black Bones weighs 100 grams less than the Hero 10 black, making it the lightest GoPro ever, the company said. Helping keep the weight down is the fact that it doesn't carry its own battery but is instead powered by the drone's own 2S-6S or 5-27V batteries -- a typical setup on FPV drones.
Deep tech start-up Spyne raises $7 mn led by Accel
Spyne a deep tech start-up helping businesses and marketplaces create high-quality product images and videos at scale with AI has raised $7 million in their latest funding round. Led by Accel, the funding round also saw the participation from other marquee investors including Storm Ventures, Smile Group, Pentathlon Ventures, Core91, and prominent founders/CXOs from leading Internet companies. The fresh capital will be invested in acquiring the right talent, bolstering global expansion, including in the US market, and setting up a state-of-the-art computer vision lab for deeper R&D in the space. The brand also intends to expand its technological horizons into the field of AR / VR to build products for metaverse and omniverse. Founded in 2018 by Sanjay Kumar and Deepti Prasad, Spyne develops 100 per cent automatic, industry-first AI image processing products to help large e-commerce marketplaces in the automotive, fashion, and retail industry enhance the visual value of the images without a physical studio.
Top 108 Computer Vision startups
Computer vision is an interdisciplinary field that deals with how computers can be made for gaining high-level understanding from digital images or videos. From the perspective of engineering, it seeks to automate tasks that the human visual system can do. Country: China Funding: $1.6B SenseTime develops face recognition technology that can be applied to payment and picture analysis, which could be used, for instance, on bank card verification and security systems. Country: China Funding: $607M Megvii develops Face Cognitive Services - a platform offering computer vision technologies that enable your applications to read and understand the world better. Face allows you to easily add leading, deep learning-based image analysis recognition technologies into your applications, with simple and powerful APIs and SDKs.
How Has Artificial Intelligence Impacted Video Editing?
Artificial Intelligence has changed video editing dynamics significantly. It has affected the video editing industry, as with the help of AI, users can now effortlessly create and edit videos. AI technologies are now painless to access, and today anyone can use machine learning software. You will be amazed to know that for video marketing, AI has become one of the essential technologies and the most in-demand tool because of its unique features, such as abilities to react, sense, adapt, and act. With the help of AI technology, you will be able to produce videos using advanced in-house video editors as together, they can create short films within just a couple of minutes. The best thing about them is that you will not have to worry about music or other tools, as it immediately fixes all your editing problems.
Data Journalism: How Big Data-Driven Analytics Improves Newsmaking
You may find the word "data" in the term "data journalism" redundant. After all, newsmaking of any kind, even the tacky, propaganda-driven type, has always relied heavily on data. Earlier, on-set journalists, reporters and data collection teams would scramble to procure information that could then be processed before being presented to the masses. However, this approach had an obvious problem--the disparities between newer real-life developments and published news reports in newspapers or even on electronic media would be vast. Data journalism--newsmaking driven by faster data collection and visualization, traces of which were first witnessed in the US during the 1950s--uses digital tools to simplify data collection.
How AI will transform the advertising industry - AdNews
The advertising industry is only just beginning to glimpse the impact of artificial intelligence (AI), according to Kate Scott-Dawkins, global director, business intelligence of GroupM. The Next 10: Artificial Intelligence, a report written by Scott-Hawkins and other contributors across GroupM, forecasts the size of AI in advertising and reports on the technologies and behaviours that will shape advertising over the next decade. GroupM estimates AI will reach more than $US370 billion this year, or roughly 45%of all advertising, and is likely to inform the vast majority of media by 2032, reaching $US1.3 trillion, or more than 90% of total ad revenue. Scott-Dawkins" "While an exercise of this kind is speculative by nature, this report is rooted in the insights of the GroupM analysts, strategists and technologists who necessarily incorporate a long-term view when shaping the next era of media where advertising works better for people. "It produces estimates around the size of AI-enabled ad revenue globally through the lens of how media channels are likely to evolve over the next decade due to the growth in application of AI, along with emerging technologies like edge computing and augmented reality. "For the purposes of this paper, we define AI-enabled advertising as any artificial intelligence used in the process of advertising, from insight generation to activation and optimisation.
It's not just you: 'senior moments' became more widespread during the pandemic, experts say
If you aren't a senior, but still experiencing'senior moments,' you are in good company, according to recent Wall Street Journal report. "Our brains are like computers with so many tabs open right now," said Dr. Sara C. Mednick, a neuroscientist and professor of cognitive science at the University of California, Irvine. "This slows down our processing power, and memory is one of the areas that falters." 'Senior moments,' otherwise known as fleeting bursts of forgetfulness, are becoming more commonplace, according to memory experts. Sometimes we might find ourselves struggling to remember the name of our friends, co-workers, words that usually roll off our tongues or how to perform tasks that are usually instinctive, per the Journal.