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The Bold Glamour beauty filter on TikTok has been used over 16 million times since its release last month. It contours your cheekbone and jawline in a sharp but subtle line. In addition, it lifts your eyebrows, applies a shimmer to your eyelids, and gives you thick, long, black eyelashes.  Think this isn’t relevant to you? Think again. The really amazing thing about this filter is how well it functions: the results are ultra-realistic. It’s just the latest example of how it’s becoming harder and harder to distinguish…

The Bold Glamour filter, now used over 16 million times since its release last month, contours your cheekbone and jawline in a sharp but subtle line. It also highlights the tip of your nose, the area under your eyebrows, and the apples of your cheeks. In addition, it lifts your eyebrows, applies a shimmer to your eyelids, and gives you thick, long, black eyelashes. It has, as the name implies, a glamorous effect. The aesthetic itself is impressive. However, the really amazing thing is how well it functions. The filter…

Social media major Snapchat facilitates sharing photos and videos online with others as ‘snaps’. Additionally, the app offers a wide range of augmented reality (AR) filters so that users can click some ‘fun’ selfies and photographs. As any festival approaches, the app provides some ‘special’ AR lens filters to let users celebrate the occasion on the platform. Since Holi is here, Snapchat has introduced several Holi AR lens filters. These filters allow users to paint Indian towns with augmented reality (AR) watercolours…

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain A cheap charcoal air filter can reduce nitrogen dioxide (NO2) inside vehicles by as much as 90%, compared to levels outside the vehicle. Research presented in a report by WM Air, the West Midlands Air Quality Improvement Programme at the University of Birmingham,…

The TikTok filters Teenage Look (left) and Bold Glamour (right) are incredibly effective at working in the wake of obstacles like hands, which cause previous mesh-based filters to glitch.Screenshot: Gizmodo/lanarpanther/uhhhuhhunney/notsophiesilva/prettygirlandcoolboyTikTok is really good at keeping users entertained, most notably with its barrage of filters. Filters on TikTok have been harmless fun for some time now, mostly serving as the punchline about getting arrested or masking your own voice, but two new filters are…

Timestamps, dependent filters, and misbehaving left joinsPhoto by Saffu on UnsplashSQL is a deceptively simple language. Across its many dialects, users can query databases in a syntax similar to English. What you see is what you get… until you don’t.Every now and then I come across a query that produces a result completely different from what I expected, teaching me little nuances about the language. I’ve compiled three recent head-scratchers in this post, and I’ve arranged them as riddles to make them more interesting.…

Microsoft's Teams, Outlook and some other services went down in some parts of India on Wednesday as users reported facing several issuesSeveral Outlook users on Monday took to social media after facing issues with their spam email filters that were broken and junk mails reached users' inbox.Many Outlook users in Europe faced the same issues, seeing an inbox full of spam messages."Outlook spam filter is garbage," an Outlook user tweeted."Glad I'm not the only one that has been having problems! I hope Microsoft is on the…

Image Source : GMAIL Gmail Google has announced that it is rolling out a new feature for its Gmail, which will enable the admins to disable spam filters. The admin will also have the access to hide warning banners for all its users or for "a specific allowlist of senders". ALSO READ: WhatsApp's recent update allows iOS users to multitask during calls without video…

Trustworthy AI is rather an unachievable goal unless you understand what standards have to be set In an interview with Times of India, Arjan Durresi, a professor of computer science and a Purdue researcher based in Indianapolis, discussing the importance of instilling transparency and training AI to be trustworthy, said AI is in a transition phase. Many companies are eager to adopt AI will connect to his words. While on one hand, it has become a must-have technology, on the other hand trusting the outcomes has become a…

Can a custom tailor made stateful mapping function based on bloom filters outperform the generic Spark stream-stream join?Photo by Kalpaj on Unsplash, Peggys Cove, NS, CanadaSpark’s flatMapGroupsWithState function allows users to apply custom code on grouped data and provides support to persist user defined states.In this article, we will implement a stateful function that retrieves the tags (features) of a parent process. The crux of the the solution is to create a composite key made of the process ID (e_key in the…