This AI turns your photos into paintings while you watch

Aug13
by on August 13, 2021 at 5:52 pm
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I sometimes fantasize about hanging an enormous painted portrait of yours truly on my bedroom wall. Visitors would be forced to genuflect before the picture and leave a gift beneath it as a token of respect. Unfortunately, I have neither the money to buy artworks nor the skills to paint one myself. But those barriers will no longer stop me from fulfilling my dream. A team of researchers has developed a tool that will paint your portrait for you. This is the original pic & the final painting! pic.twitter.com/6hYC6HqQA3 — clem 🤗 (@ClementDelangue) August 11, 2021 Dubbed Paint Transformer, the system predicts the…

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Here’s how much bigger the Pixel 6’s camera sensor is than the Pixel 5’s (probably)

Aug13
by on August 13, 2021 at 12:37 am
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I still think the Pixel 5 takes some of the best photos of any smartphone, but that’s no thanks to the actual camera hardware. While competitors have moved on to massive camera sensors that strain the limits of what you can reasonably fit in a smartphone, Google hasn’t significantly enlarged the camera sensor since the original. In fact, the Pixel 5 has the same exact Sony IMX363 primary camera sensor Google has been using since the Pixel 3, which itself was technically a bit smaller (albeit newer) than the IMX368 sensor used way back on the Pixel 1. Almost all of…

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Everything Samsung announced at its Unpacked folding phone event

Aug11
by on August 11, 2021 at 10:13 pm
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Samsung held its Unpacked event today, and true to myriad rumors, the company announced a couple of new folding phones, a fancy watch, and its latest take on its noise-canceling earbuds. Here’s a summary of the best news of the day. The Galaxy Z Fold 3 Third time’s the charm, as the Z Fold 3 seems to take significant steps to address people’s biggest complaints about the series. Samsung did not announce a new Note series phone today but instead brought a stylus to the Fold family. The Z Fold 3 is compatible with a special S-pen that retracts to…

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