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With more than a billion monthly active users, it's easy to imagine that most of the data travelling over Facebook's networks is delivering photos, status updates and "likes" to its end users, but that's far from the case.The social network moves about 1,000 times as much data between the servers inside its data centers as it does from its servers out to end users, company executives said Wednesday. They talked about the challenges that this creates for Facebook and the network technologies it's developing to overcome them."Our traffic going from machine to machine far exceeds the traffic going from the machines out to our end users," said Jay Parikh, vice president of Infrastructure Engineering at Facebook, in an on-stage interview at the GigaOm Structure conference in San Francisco.That's because of all the processing work Facebook does on the back end to figure out what information it needs to send to end users. The systems analyze data, rank results, and perform a myriad of other tasks to generate the pages Facebook delivers to users' smartphones and Web browsers.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Twitter has bought Spindle, a search technology company that informs users about what's happening with local businesses and organizations around them.The deal, the terms of which were not disclosed, could help Twitter beef up its efforts to keep users "in the loop." The company has been rumored to be working on its own location discovery feature to surface certain tweets posted by people nearby.Spindle's technology was based on delivering social updates from businesses and other sources to users. For example, Spindle users could use interactive maps to see where things were happening nearby and also set alerts to receive notifications from specific places.Spindle, which has been based in Boston, aims to "help people discover valuable social content they couldn't otherwise find," the company says on its website.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Meet the EIZO team at Native Digital's colour management training course.

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Today it's the turn of the arctic tern as we list a few tips on how to photograph them.

The Lytro camera had a Wifi chip inside, but until now, it was not activated/enabled/usable. This changes now. Lytro has a new software update that enables the Wi-fi feature and to make the most out of it, they have also launched an accompanying iTunes app. Details via Pop Photo and Engadget and Tech Crunch Gear and Lytro blog and Lytro support. For some Lytro photo-edutainment, Lytro has a YouTube channel showing Lytro in real world use. The Latest Instant Rebates: Fuji X System (stackable, ends 6/29/13) and Nikon DSLRs (stackable, ends 6/29/13) and Canon DSLRs (ends 6/22/13) For the latest camera specials, check the Cameras Deals blog with full text RSS feed and easy to remember url noisydeals.com For the latest Camera Reviews, check the Camera Reviews stream with full text RSS feed and easy to remember url noisyreviews.com For the latest Lens Reviews, check the Lens Reviews stream with full text RSS feed and easy to remember url noisylenses.com For Stock Updates on hard to find cameras, check the Stock Status mini site Republication of this RSS feed on any website or blog or app is prohibited and violates the terms of use of this RSS feed. This text comes from the RSS feed of 1001noisycameras.com. This full-text RSS feed is provided as a service to our loyal readers for their personal use. Republication fees start at $1000 per month and will be billed to violating websites.

B&H has the Westcott Recessed mega JS Apollo 50″ x 50″ softbox for $169.90 (reg. $249.90). Check it out here at B&H Photo. Copyright/DMCA Notice: The RSS entry was originally published on Photography Bay and is protected by copyright laws. It is unlawful to (a) edit, modify, alter, or create derivative works of the text, content or links supplied by Photography Bay, (b) use any robot, spider, scraper, other device or manual process to monitor or copy any content from the Photography Bay RSS feed, (c) sell, retransmit or commercially exploit the Photography Bay RSS feed, headlines or content in any manner except as expressly permitted in writing by authorized representatives of Photography Bay, (d) incorporate advertising into or the placement of advertising associated with or targeted towards the Photography Bay RSS feed or (e) use the Photography Bay RSS feed for any unlawful purpose or in violation of the rights of others. RSSID#794326 Related posts: 2-Light Softbox Kit for $99.95 – Deal Alert Westcott Speedlite Accessory Gift Pack Westcott Spiderlite TD6 and 7′ Parabolic Umbrella Now Available

If you happen to be looking for a Sony NEX mirrorless camera and also an Android tablet, then your stars may align on this combined purchase deal at Adorama. You pay $688 with free shipping (price shown in shopping cart) and you get the Sony NEX-5R with 18-55mm along with the 7-inch 32GB Google Nexus 7 Android tablet. The NEX-5R w/18-55 currently goes for $600 at authorized Sony dealers, while the 32GB Nexus 7 goes for $250 at reputable dealers. Research the camera using the list of completed NEX-5R reviews. You can cross-reference mirrorless camera prices as of mid-May-2013 using the Mirrorless Price Chart (mid-May 2013). The Latest Instant Rebates: Fuji X System (stackable, ends 6/29/13) and Nikon DSLRs (stackable, ends 6/29/13) and Canon DSLRs (ends 6/22/13) For the latest camera specials, check the Cameras Deals blog with full text RSS feed and easy to remember url noisydeals.com For the latest Camera Reviews, check the Camera Reviews stream with full text RSS feed and easy to remember url noisyreviews.com For the latest Lens Reviews, check the Lens Reviews stream with full text RSS feed and easy to remember url noisylenses.com For Stock Updates on hard to find cameras, check the Stock Status mini site Republication of this RSS feed on any website or blog or app is prohibited and violates the terms of use of this RSS feed. This text comes from the RSS feed of 1001noisycameras.com. This full-text RSS feed is provided as a service to our loyal readers for their personal use. Republication fees start at $1000 per month and will be billed to violating websites.

It truly is a cat and mouse game between software developers and software pirates. It’s been that way for years. So when I company like Adobe decides to change up their entire business model to subscription-based to curb the piracy of their professional-grade product suite, you would expect it to take a fair amount of time before the pirates managed to find a workaround. Perhaps not the case, according to a torrent link uploaded today to The Pirate Bay, one of the largest torrent-tracking sites on the Internet. Just one day following the official launch of Photoshop CC, the software has apparently been cracked and available for downloading illegally. Upon installation of the desktop software, Adobe requires the end user’s computer to be connected to the Internet to verify the Creative Cloud subscription status. That would suggest that software pirates have found a means to bypass this authorization (not a huge surprise, if true). These desktop applications connect back to Adobe’s servers every month to re-validate a customer’s subscription status, so whether or not this is a long-term solution for pirates remains to be seen. It’s could potentially be a huge blow to Adobe’s “stop-piracy” ambitions, but with Photoshop being one of the most pirated software in the world, this may not be a game software developers like Adobe can win (yet). (via FStoppers) Disclaimer: We do not, in any form, condone software piracy.

Leica has announced a special edition of its D-lux 6 high-end compact camera, in collaboration with clothing manufacturer G-Star RAW. The special D-Lux 6 (itself arguably a 'special edition' Panasonic Lumix DMC-LX7) will be available from Leica Stores and Boutiques worldwide, and is expected to cost around $1300. What do you get for your money? Well, 'a new dot structure on the leather body trim' and a leather case with 'exclusive carrying strap'. Excited? Click through for more details.