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Giphy (Bizarrely?) Calls GIF Images ‘Cringe’ and ‘Out of Fashion’
I have to admit that when someone mentions GIF images/animations, my initial thoughts do generally tend to go back to the days of the internet in the mid to late 90s. – At a time when dial-up connections could barely handle a 5MB download, let alone a 500MB video, GIFs…
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Adobe to Launch a Free to Use Browser Version of Photoshop
I feel I should start this one by openly admitting that as much as I’m fully aware that Photoshop is capable of producing image editing miracles, it’s a piece of software I have never truly gotten to grips with. – As much as Microsoft may show increasing hatred towards it,…
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MSI Leak Reveals More Z490 Motherboard Designs
We have already seen a number of MSI Z490 motherboard designs leak online and with the launch of Intel’s Comet Lake-S CPU range just around the corner, it’s hardly surprising that these leaks would eventually turn from a mild drip into the floodgates being damn near fully open! Well, coming…
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Full Gigabyte Z490 Motherboard Range Leaks
Yesterday, we saw a number of leaks surrounding Gigabyte’s upcoming range of Intel Comet Lake-S Z490 motherboard designs. With a number of images of their designs revealed, it also included that the processors (and boards) would, at least in part, support PCIe 4.0. In a report via Videocardz, however, the…
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Huawei Caught Cheating Again With P40 Promo Photos
With Huawei’s P40 Pro smartphone now out for general release, it seems that we might be having a weird case of deja vu and not for good reasons either! Why? Well, not for the first time, Huawei has been caught using photographs taken using a DSLR camera and representing them…
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Intel Core i9-10900 Comet Lake-S CPU Images Leak Online
Unless there’s a memo somewhere I’ve missed, the Intel Comet Lake-S processor platform is not expected to arrive until March or April this year. Since when has a launch date ever gotten in the way of product images being leaked online though? In a report via Videocardz, detailed (and up-close)…
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Final Fantasy VII Comparison – Then and Now
Final Fantasy VII Comparison The original Final Fantasy VII on the PlayStation 1 is by far one of the all-time greatest games. It’s personally one of my top choices, and I revisited the original to complete it again just a few months back. However, recently we saw the latest trailer,…
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Nvidia Release RTX Moon Landing Demo Video
Nvidia Release RTX Moon Landing Demo Video Next year will mark the 50th anniversary since man first stepped foot on the moon. Well, that is, of course, assuming that you believed it really happened. Incidentally, if you think it didn’t, you’re an idiot. It’s not just me saying that either! …
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Japan Release Images From Asteroid Landers
Japan Release Images From Asteroid Landers After spending a couple days nervously tracking an asteroid, the Japanese Space Agency launched two rovers on Friday. The success of the landing was, however, very unclear. Put simply, they had to wait to see if any data starting coming back to earth. Well,…
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ASUS Reveals GeForce RTX 2070 Graphic Cards
ASUS Reveals GeForce RTX 2070 Graphic Cards Despite all the fuss that has been made around the 2080 and 2080TI graphics cards, you might be forgiven if you had forgotten that Nvidia was also planning on releasing a third in the range. The 2070, as the name would suggest from…
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Snapchat Despite Petition Hold Firm On Latest Update
Snapchat Following a recent update to the popular photo application, Snapchat, it’s users have clearly not been happy about it. With a petition reaching over one million signatures, there were hopes from the community that they would consider rolling back to the previous version. The owner of the app, Evan Speigel,…
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Google’s Guetzli JPEG Encoder Shrinks Sizes Up to 35% With Little Quality Loss
Google has announced that their new Guetzli JPEG encoder is an open source algorithm that is capable of shrinking JPEG file size up to 35% with very little quality degradation penalty compared to other methods. The new compression method is extremely useful for websites so that pages can load faster,…
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Microsoft’s ‘CaptionBot’ Adds Incorrect Captions to Your Favourite Pictures
Microsoft, as part of its new research into storytelling by artificial intelligence, has released CaptionBot, an AI designed to recognise images and add an appropriate descriptive caption. However, like its previous attempt at AI – chatbot Tay – CaptionBot isn’t entirely successful. As with Tay, though, the results are hilarious…
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What Happens When You Open and Save a JPEG 500 Times?
Many years ago, back in the first days of digital photography, torture testing JPEG images to determine how much quality has been lost by making multiple edits was quite a big thing. JPEG’s use a technique called lossy compression that drops information to keep file sizes at a manageable level. A…
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Fair Use Limits Challenged by ‘2001: A Space Odyssey’ as 569 GIFs
In a challenge of just how far the fair usage doctrine can be pushed, Jean-Baptiste Henri Franck Cyrille Marie Le Divelec has released his project 2001: A Gif Odyssey. The work is a comprehensive construction of the Stanley Kubrick sci-fi classic, 2001: A Space Odyssey, using only GIF images, 569 of…
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