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With President Biden signing a bill that could ban TikTok, groups such as GriefTok and DeafTok fear they'll lose an inimitable source of comfort and connection.
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 Most new features and experiments Adobe has announced recently involve AI, like object addition and removal for Premiere Pro and text-based image generation in Photoshop. Now, the company has unveiled VideoGigaGAN, an experimental AI feature it says can upscale video by eight times without the usual artifacts like flickering or distortion, The Verge reported.
VideoGigaGAN beats other Video Super Resolution (VSR) methods because it avoids the usual artifacts and flickering introduced by GAN (General Adversarial Networks), according to Adobe. At the same time, it adds sharpness and detail — where most other systems fail to do do both of those things at once.
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Of course, the system is making up detail that doesn't exist out of whole cloth, so this wouldn't be suitable for things like forensic video enhancement, à la CSI-style crime shows. But the detail it does add looks impressively real, like skin textures, fine hairs,
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Captures stored on your console will remain, but the cloud backups will be deleted.
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The future of TikTok is a bit fuzzy. Here are similar apps to give your attention to.
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Whether you're ready to upgrade your old television or you want to create a mini-home theater, these deals will help you get there.
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 Apple's latest iPhones include several headline camera features that are worth using, such as Portrait Mode and Photographic Styles. But if all you want to use is the standard photo mode, there are still several tools and settings that can improve the composition of your pictures and help you capture the perfect shot using more traditional techniques.
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Sometimes you take a call on your phone and want to switch to your laptop. Now you can.
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While paid password managers offer nice extras, a free password manager still protects you from the risks of using weak passwords (or worse, using the same one everywhere). Instead of remembering all of your passwords, you just have to remember one password to access a single, secure place where all of the rest are stored.
And because free password managers come in different flavors and styles, you should be able to find one that fits your needs. Even Google's password manager, built into Chrome and Android, can work as a no-cost option with a nifty Windows tie-in. Plus, if you find that the free versions aren't enough, down the road you can always upgrade to a paid service as your needs grow.
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Looking for the best firm mattress on the market? Firm mattresses are favored by sleepers who need extra support -- if that's you, these are our top picks.
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The Federal Trade Commission is sending payments to customers who had certain Ring home security cameras and accounts during a particular time period, the agency said.
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NEW RESOURCES Michigan Municipal League: MI Funding Hub Technical Assistance Program Launches for Michigan Municipalities. "The Michigan Department of Labor & Economic Opportunity (LEO) and the Michigan Municipal League have launched MI […]
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The innovation personified by the startup companies on this list is moving KM forward in interesting and thought-provoking ways. Technological advances allow organizations to uncover new information in existing knowledge bases, make information easily accessible to both employees and customers, and encourage faster, better decision making.
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Check out our top picks for 3D printers that won't break the bank.
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Get Netflix back up and running on your Roku TV with these simple steps.
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The Anker PowerConf C200 webcam is 20 percent off right now via Amazon or directly from the company. This brings the price down to $48. The $12 dollar discount isn't the lowest price ever for the webcam, but its dang close. In other words, this is still a fantastic deal.
The C200 is one of our favorite webcams, easily sliding into second place on our list of the best available models. We loved the easy setup, as all you have to do is plug it into your computer or docking station and start recording. It also integrates with the company's AnkerWork software for editing and for making quick adjustments to brightness, sharpness and contrast ratio.
The default resolution is 2K, but you can adjust to 1080p, 720p or even 360p as the content requires. The field of view is similarly adjustable, so you can offer watchers an ultra-wide view of an extremely messy bedroom. It boasts dual stereo mics with omnidirectional vocal pickup and ships with a built-in lens cover.
The webcam's autofocus is quite fast, even when compared to pricier models, and its large
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President Biden has signed the bill to force a sale of the video app or ban it. Now the law faces court challenges, a shortage of qualified buyers and Beijing's hostility.
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 Few features have promised to revolutionize the way we interact with our Apple devices as much as Siri, the company's ubiquitous virtual assistant. Launched in 2011, Siri was introduced as heralding a new era in human-computer interaction, offering an intuitive voice-controlled interface for accessing information, scheduling appointments, sending messages, and much more. The vision was grand: A personal assistant in your pocket, capable of understanding and acting upon a wide array of voice commands with ease and accuracy. So what happened?
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NEW RESOURCES Australian Computer Society: Australian researchers launch global misinformation database. "[Researchers have] developed the International Digital Policy Observatory (IDPO), a free online database tracking policies and regulations from 50 countries around […]
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404 Media reports on a site calling itself Spy Pet, run by a single anonymous creator who claims to be collecting data from 14,000 Discord servers and more than 600 million users, with just over four billion messages indexed so far. The system they've built scrapes the group messages inside the channels of Discord servers and makes note of which users are active across multiple servers.
The data is then sold to whoever wants it, paying anonymously in chunks of cryptocurrency worth as little as $5 USD. Customers can search the database to find a single Discord user's activity across a range of servers, see the messages they've posted in open channels, and see whatever usernames and nicknames (often aliases instead of real names) they're using across different servers, as well as accounts connected to their Discord user account on other sites. It can even show which users have been banned from a server, and allows its data to be downloaded in tables.
Spy Pet appears to be built off of Discord's standard API and developer tools, essentially scraping data that's used for less questionable purposes. That means that, while the service is definitely breaking Discord's ter
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