Instagram is a social media platform where people dump their best photos. The app has a built-in filter feature which users can use to make their already fabulous photos even more fabulous. Now, the king of design editing softwares, Adobe, has released a new camera app with the powers of Adobe Photoshop, which makes Instagram’s filters look obsolete. The app is called Photoshop Camera.

Adobe has put some of the powerful photo-editing capabilities of its Photoshop software into a new camera app that uses AI to do all the hard work for you. But the app doesn’t just apply filters you can preview before you snap a pic—Photoshop Camera can even replace unwanted parts of a shot while you’re still framing it.

The new app, available for free on Android and iOS (a paid Adobe Creative Cloud subscription isn’t needed) is part of the company’s recent efforts to make its powerful image-editing and creative tools available and accessible to a wider user base. It’s an approach that, for the most part, hasn’t compromised the advanced capabilities of Adobe’s image-editing tools. That’s thanks to the company’s artificial intelligence system, called Sensei, which automates the editing process for novice users who don’t have hours to spend on a photo, or years to learn and master a piece of software as complex as Photoshop.

Amazing!

Learn more about the capabilities of the app over at Gizmodo.

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Taking care of children is a thrilling and challenging task, one full of ups, downs, twists, turns, and mishaps — colorful experiences which you could write or draw about. “Professional comedy writer and amateur father” James Breakwell does just that in his webcomic series.

Where the Unbelievably Bad Webcomic series excels is character development and storytelling. It unravels Breakwell's everyday life with his wife and their four daughters, providing insightful and humorous insights into the chaotic reality of the modern family.

Breakwell's kids are the starting point for almost all of his jokes but his comics are an homage to parenting in general. "Everybody's kids are weird and my comics celebrate that," Breakwell said, "anyone who says they have normal children is lying."

Check out many of his stories over at BoredPanda.

What was your most memorable experience being a parent?

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Bill Wurtz’s “History of the Entire World, I Guess” may just be considered as the greatest of the many history videos that can be found in YouTube for two reasons. The first reason was it was able to tell the whole history of the world in just a short amount of time. The second was it was able to teach in an engaging and interesting way. Unfortunately, because the video constantly bombards you with historical facts, you won’t find time to process the information in your brain, and you might have to watch it in segments, or watch it for several times.

Mr. Terry helps us break down the many historical events that Bill Wurtz covers in his video, and he explains why these moments in history are important.

While the video may be a bit long (lasting about 51 minutes), it’s not boring.

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My typical Sunday morning rituals - wake up and embroider in my pyjamas 🦄

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That's the adjective that I will use. Marchenko embroiders images on translucent tulle, which gives them the appearance of suspending in midair or, in the case of this mermaid, mid-water. She explains to Bored Panda that the effect of tulle is that "it makes embroidery visually more voluminous."

This public service announcement from New Zealand aims to get parents to drive home the fact that pornography doesn't depict sex, or anything at all, realistically. It's part of their Keep It Real Online campaign, and it's truly funny. -via Boing Boing

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This is my body.

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The enigmatic artist Ellen Sheidlin offers no clue as to the meaning of her sculpture aside from the words "This is my body." It immediately reminded me of the liturgy of the Eucharist, but an Instagram commenter suggests that it is an allusion to a famous horror manga about a person who lives inside a chair.

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Peelometric

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Isn’t it just satisfying to see things arranged in such a really meticulous way that you just stare at it with awe and amazement? This is just what Adam Hillman does in his masterpieces, which were featured on Colossal.

Using produce, candy, and breakfast fare, Hillman organizes an array of perishables into patterns and geometric sequences, which he often shares on Instagram. “There’s something beautiful about working with something so transient, and the beauty of the materials is something that can only be preserved through photography long after the food within the photo has either rotted or been eaten,” he tells Colossal.

Check out Hillman’s impressive artworks over at the site, and visit his Instagram account to see more of his magnificent artworks.

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For many people, cockroaches are disgusting pests and should be dealt with immediately when spotted. These are dangerous creatures that spoil food, spread pathogens, and cause psychological distress (especially when one begins to spread its wings and fly). But looking at them through the lens of science and technology, they are wonderful creatures and could be sources of inspiration.

Check out this cockroach-inspired robot developed by scientists from Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS).

HAMR-JR is a half-scale version of the cockroach-inspired harvard ambulatory microrobot or HAMR. About the size of a penny, HAMR-JR can’t climb up the waterspout yet but it can run, jump, carry heavy payloads and turn into a dime, making it one of the most dexterous microrobots to date.

Most robots at this scale are pretty simple and only demonstrate basic mobility,’ Kaushik Jayaram, a former postdoctoral fellow at SEAS and wyss and first author of the paper comments. ‘We have shown that you don’t have to compromise dexterity or control for size.’

Head over at DesignBoom for more details about this robot.

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Ernest is one loving and caring cat. He just loves all of the animals on the farm, whether it is the donkeys, the alpacas, the cows, the goats, the sheep, the chickens, and the pigs, which are his favorites of them all. He loves licking them, and giving them massages whether they’re standing or lying down.

Check out this video of Ernest over at The Dodo.

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I remember the first time I watched DC’s 2013 film Man of Steel, and I was surprised at how the film portrayed the superhero that I loved when I was a kid. This wasn’t the Superman that I grew up with. And to be honest, the 2013 film was kind of boring compared to the 1978 Superman film, which starred the late Christopher Reeve. But what made Christopher Reeve’s portrayal of the superhero more likable than the more recent one portrayed by Henry Cavill? Cracked.com has this to say:

Well, common wisdom seems to dictate that if we're looking for the right kind of Superman, Christopher Reeve is about as perfect as you can get. He was strong when others weren't, kind when the world turned its back on him, and had an almost puppy dog sense of loyalty toward doing the right thing and being pleasant to everyone. And that's great and makes for a great Superman, but just having a guy who's nice all the time about everything doesn't make for a very interesting character. And that's why it's important to remember Christopher Reeve's most underrated talent when playing Superman: The ability to make the guy a charming little ****.

Check out their full analysis of Christopher Reeve’s Superman over at the site.

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Junji Ito is popularly known for his horror manga works, like the Enigma of the Amigara Fault. But unbeknownst to many people, he is also a cat manga author, and people have thought of him as a cat person, which he really is. He is a nice person, but can scare the soul out of you through his horror works.

Ito states that his fascination for cats started when his wife got a cat which lived with them. There, he saw that cats were cute and interesting beings.

But how will he find cats as portrayed in anime? Junji Ito rates them on this video by Crunchyroll.

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This video goes a long way to answer two very important questions: 1. How does gravity work? and 2. How did Albert Einstein become a celebrity? While the second question is more interesting in the moment, this video gives a really simple explanation of the difference between Newton's definition of gravity and Einstein's. And then it take us on an adventure to the Southern Hemisphere (and the cosmos) for proof. -via Digg

Even for the layman, the concept of timing in animation can be easily understood, as what we can see in reality can also be applied in animation — “fast things happen quickly”, which means that an action will take less time, and “slow things happen slowly”, which means that the action will take more time to perform. Despite it being a simple concept, timing is one of the fundamental principles when it comes to animation, as it basically influences everything in animation.

Dive into New Frame Plus’s video and learn more about this animation principle.

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Now that social distancing (and social isolation, in some cases) will most likely be the world’s new normal, our social lives will be greatly affected. And, alongside our social lives, our survival and longevity will also be affected, as these things are connected.

A new paper published in the journal Trends in Cognitive Sciences explores the wide-ranging, negative consequences that social isolation has on our psychological well-being and physical health, including decreased life span. The paper was co-authored by Associate Professor Danilo Bzdok (McGill University and Mila Quebec Artificial Intelligence Institute) and Emeritus Professor Robin Dunbar (University of Oxford).

Associate Professor & Canada CIFAR Artificial Intelligence Chair Danilo Bzdok, said, ‘We are social creatures. Social interplay and cooperation have fuelled the rapid ascent of human culture and civilization. Yet, social species struggle when forced to live in isolation. From babies to the elderly, psychosocial embedding in interpersonal relationships is critical for survival. It is now more urgent than ever to narrow the knowledge gap of how social isolation impacts the human brain as well as mental and physical well-being.’

Head over at Neuroscience News for more details about this study.

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Have you ever had a moment of pure joy and peace in your life where you just had to close your eyes and put your hands on your back just to fully experience that moment. This bird might just have been in that kind of moment. That, or maybe he was drying himself in mid-air. Nevertheless, he looks so happy in this photo!

This photo was taken by Karen Munro, a photographer from Scotland.

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