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Blackmagic Camera 8.6 Beta update for Pocket and Cinema Cameras

Blackmagic Design has unveiled the 8.6 Beta software update for its Pocket Cinema Camera 6K, including the Pro model and Cinema Camera 6K. This update introduces advanced networking support, a new media pool file browser, and enhanced connectivity features.

One of the standout features of the 8.6 Beta update is the networking support, which allows for the uploading of proxies and original media directly to the Blackmagic Cloud. This integration facilitates easy file sharing, making it easier for creatives to work together, regardless of each member’s actual location.

This camera update also adds a new media pool file browser, which

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Behind the plot to break Nvidia’s grip on AI by targeting software

San Francisco: Nvidia earned its $2.2 trillion market cap by producing artificial-intelligence chips that have become the lifeblood powering the new era of generative A.I developers from startups to Microsoft, OpenAI and Google parent Alphabet .
Almost as important to its hardware is the company’s nearly 20 years’ worth of computer code, which helps make competition with the company almost impossible. More than 4 million global developers rely on Nvidia’s CUDA software platform to build AI and other apps. Now a coalition of tech companies that includes Qualcomm, Google and Intel plans to loosen Nvidia’s chokehold by going after the
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The Canadian government’s struggles with outsourcing software development, ET Telecom

Relative to the 496 billion Canadian dollars the federal government spent last year, the amounts are small. But this week’s revelations surrounding millions of dollars in potentially fraudulent billings by subcontractors, along with the continuing ArriveCAN app scandal, show what a big mess developing software can be for the government.

Even after an extensive investigation, Karen Hogan, the auditor general, said she could not determine exactly what it had cost to create ArriveCAN, which was rushed out in 2020 to collect contact and health information from international travelers during the Covid-19 pandemic and to coordinate quarantine measures.

Hogan’s best guess

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