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How Google’s ‘Frankenphone’ taught the Pixel 3 AI to take portrait photos

A background-blurring portrait mode arrived last year in Google’s Pixel 2 smartphone, but researchers used a hacked-together clump of five phones to improve how the feature worked in this year’s Pixel 3. The portrait mode simulates the shallow depth of field of higher-end cameras and lenses that concentrate your attention on the subject while turning the background into an undistracting …

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Activists make final push to save net neutrality

It’s getting down to the wire for activists looking to save Obama-era net neutrality rules. On Thursday, supporters held a final internet-wide day of action to help preserve the rules, which were adopted in 2015 under a Democrat-led Federal Communications Commission and repealed last year by a Republican-led FCC. The US House of Representatives has until the end of the …

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