These photos of the deep freeze will make you move in with your Florida grandmother

Do you have any relatives in Florida, Los Angeles or the Caribbean? Now is an excellent time to catch up.
New Year’s 2018 was marked by bone-chillingly low, sad temperatures in much of the continental United StatesNew York City had its coldest New Ye…

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Google launches three new photography apps for testing experimental technology

 Google today is launching a trio of new photo apps – a part of new series of what it has dubbed photography “appsperiments.” (Get it? Ha ha.) The apps, some of which are available on both the iOS App Store and Google Play, give Google a way to test out more experimental features to see how users respond, the company explains in an announcement on its Google Research blog.… Read More

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Jupiter has the blues, just like the rest of us

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It’s been a pretty crappy week here on Earth, so let’s take our bad moods on a little interplanetary excursion.

Jupiter seems to be a nice fit. 

The giant planet’s roiling clouds, churning in its northern hemisphere, make it look like a peaceful Van Gogh painting in this newly-released photo taken by NASA’s Juno spacecraft. 

“The Juno spacecraft captured this image when the spacecraft was only 11,747 miles (18,906 kilometers) from the tops of Jupiter’s clouds — that’s roughly as far as the distance between New York City and Perth, Australia,” NASA said in a statement about the image taken on October 24.  Read more…

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Comedian finds photo of herself in art installation, unravels weird mystery on Twitter

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Bisha Ali is a British comedian, but she can now also take the mantle of investigator extraordinaire.

Ali recently had something very odd happen to her, and before long it snowballed into a full-blown mystery.

THREAD. I’M HYPE. I’M ABOUT TO BUST THIS CASE WIDE OPEN.

— Bisha K Ali (@bishakali) November 27, 2017

It all began with a message from a friend.

My old friend who I met at Space Camp in Vancouver in 2006 just messaged me out of the blue:

— Bisha K Ali (@bishakali) November 27, 2017

“Hey Bisha! I know this is probably supremely weird but I think I saw a photo of you being used in a public art installation in Calgary…”

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Snapchat’s newest filters can recognize what’s in your photos

 Snapchat is rolling out new filters that can recognize what’s in your photos in order to suggest graphics, like borders or stickers, to accompany your posts. These filters today are capable of recognizing images of objects like pets, sports, and food, as well as specific locations, like beaches or concerts. The quiet release of the new filters was first spotted by Mashable, which… Read More

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Skype launches Photo Effects – sticker suggestions powered by machine learning

 Not content with merely launching its own take on Instagram and Snapchat’s Stories, Skype today is adding another copycat-like feature to its app: photo stickers. The company says it’s introducing new “Photo Effects” (as it’s calling these stickers), which include things like face masks, decorative borders, witty captions, and more. However, unlike the photo… Read More

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Album+ organizes photos with A.I. that runs on your phone, not in the cloud

 A new iOS app called Album+ is taking advantage of the increased A.I. capabilities and GPUs in modern iPhones to help people better manage their photos. The app’s features are similar to those found in something like Google Photos – it can also de-duplicate photos, for example, as well as categorize the people, places, and objects it finds in your images. But the difference is… Read More

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