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I “downgraded” from the iPhone 16 Pro to the iPhone 17 this year because there was only one unique feature of the iPhone 17 Pro that interested me: the 4x/8x zoom courtesy of its Telephoto camera. In ...

Abstract: The exchange image file format (Exif) standard defines the specification for how to store metadata and ancillary tags for multimedia files. These tags are useful in documenting information ...

A startling milestone has been reached in Florida's war against the invasive Burmese pythons eating their way across the Everglades. The Conservancy of Southwest Florida reports it has captured and ...

Samsung has adopted the C2PA standards for digital media authenticity, starting with the Galaxy S25 series. The Galaxy S25 and soon other Samsung devices on One UI 7 add extra metadata to images that ...

For estimating JPEG quality, ExifTool uses a heuristic that is adapted from ImageMagick. There are several problems with this method, and I just created an issue for this (see links to blog posts for ...

An experimental ‘no-GIL’ build mode in Python 3.13 disables the Global Interpreter Lock to enable true parallel execution in Python. Here’s where to start. The single biggest new feature in Python ...

Despite miles of ground covered as we drove through the Everglades under the cover of darkness, it was impossible to ignore the fact that we hadn’t spotted a single mammal. The expansive wetlands in ...

A woman was found dead inside the belly of a snake after it swallowed her whole in central Indonesia last week, police said, the second python killing in the province in a month. Siriati, 36, had gone ...