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  • Pixel — Phone by Google

    Google Pixel phone is not yet officially revealed. But, there are already some leaked images and information. Both devices — Pixel and Pixel XL — will have 32GB or 128GB of storage, 4GB of RAM, Qualcomm’s latest 821 processor, AMOLED screens, fingerprint scanners on the back, an eight-megapixel selfie camera and a 12-megapixel camera on the…

  • Google's AI Object Recognition Accuracy: 93%

    How’s the accuracy of Google’s AI to identify objects in an image? According to the research report, it’s more than 93%. It’s 93.9% to be precise. Today’s code release initializes the image encoder using the Inception V3 model, which achieves 93.9% accuracy on the ImageNet classification task. Initializing the image encoder with a better vision…

  • Malaysian man spent 18 days in Changi Airport lounges using 31 forged boarding passes

    Malaysian man spent 18 days in Changi Airport lounges using 31 forged boarding passes. He downloaded images of mobile boarding passes issued by two airlines – Cathay Pacific and Singapore Airlines – from the Internet, and used an image editing software on his laptop to alter them. Raejali inserted his name, a false flight number…

  • Android N is… Nougat

    I think more people think that Android N will have Nutella as its new name. But, recently Android announced that the official name for Android N is Android Nougat. Wait, Nougat? I personally not familar with this. According to Wikipedia: Nougat is a family of confections made with sugar or honey, roasted nuts (almonds, walnuts,…

  • Terrapattern

    Terrapattern — a visual search tool for satellite imagery. The project provides journalists, citizen scientists, and other researchers with the ability to quickly scan large geographical regions for specific visual features.

  • Delete Old Devices Backup on OS X to Reclaim Disk Storage

    One of the routines relate to my laptop is to keep everything organised. This includes folders management, removing unused files or installing/uninstalling applications, etc. For disk usage checking purpose, I use OmniDiskSweeper. Yes, I also have Macpaw’s CleanMyMac 2, but OmniDiskSweeper will do a simple and specific task as mentioned on its site: OmniDiskSweeper is…

  • Raspberry Pi 2

    Raspberry Pi 2 is on sale for $35. It has ~6x performance using a 900MHz quad-core ARM Cortex-A7 CPU compared to the previous product. It’s also said to be supporting ARM GNU/Linux distributions, including Snappy Ubuntu Core, as well as Microsoft Windows 10. (Image source: Hackaday)

  • Photon: WordPress.com's Content Delivery Network

    Dealing with side loads for heavy-traffic website sometime can be painful. But, of course there are some common practice to deal with this kind of situation. For example, you can take advantage of cache system, offload to other service to reduce server load/bandwidth, or using CDN (Content Delivery Network). For WordPress-powered sites, you can take…

  • Going with MacBook Pro with Retina Display

    This month, I finally decided to buy myself a new MacBook. And, I chose MacBook with Retina display (15-inch model). It was not an easy decision for some reasons. The first reason is that it’s pretty cheap (compared to the other laptops in the market). The second one was about a decision whether I need…

  • Photo Sizes on Flickr

    I’m not sure when Flickr started to generate more sizes for uploaded photos. If you upload a photo, it will be uploaded to Flickr, and will be processed to generate multiple image sizes. Here are the sizes for reference — based on a photo taken using iPhone 5: Square 75 (75 x 75) Square 150…

  • Nokia N9 Sample Photos

    I love photography. After using some different cameras (DSLR and phone camera), I think  this year I spend more time using mobile phone, not the DSLR. Sometime, I almost forgot that I still have Canon 450D. After having Nokia N9 in my hands, I wanted to test its camera features, just like what I did…

  • canv.as

    canv.as — a place to share and play with images. Explore new content created by other users, vote on your favorites, and even make your own image remixes with the in-browser editor.