pmorin Loc: Huntington Beach, Palm Springs

I set my phone to ‘Silence Unknown Callers’ so I never hear the calls but they sometimes leave a VM if it’s a real person with a list. That’s how I knew what was happening.
The robo calls usually are hang-ups or twice in a row. Still, they all get silenced and I can just delete them.
I’m not paranoid, just cautious when using the net. If someone really wants to know about me, I’m sure it’s out there somewhere.

Longshadow Loc: Audubon, PA, United States

I added doctors, hospital, pharmacy, etc. to my cell phone, even though I call them on the land line, simply so they don't come up "unknown". If they really want to talk to me, they'll leave a message.

pmorin Loc: Huntington Beach, Palm Springs

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outdoorcat

DuckDuckGo uses Google's search without passing your personal information.

Chadp Loc: Virginia Beach

Google is so powerful it has taken over this thread. 😂

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

That's why I clicked on your post - to see what it is.

joer Loc: Colorado/Illinois

I block all call numbers not on my contacts...I figure if its important they will leave a voice mail. I get very few voice mails.

gvarner Loc: Central Oregon Coast

It’s how camera-phones overcome the limits of not having, among other things, a lot of mechanical moving parts. It’s also how manufacturers add such features as HDR.

radiojohn

My experience with "computational" cameras is a Lytro Illum.

The camera essentially builds a digital model of the subject so that point of focus and depth of field can be adjusted AFTER the image is captured WITHOUT affecting exposure. You can go from a simulated f/1 to f/32 and exposure will not be affected. You also can generate 3D pairs or anaglyph 3D and more.

Sadly Lytro stressed the "living picture" gimmick and not what might have been useful to sports, news and general photographers. And more work was needed to end up with a sharper, higher res exported file.

Toment Loc: FL, IL

Never mind

LarryFB Loc: Depends where our RV is parked

Fundamentally, after reading several resources, "Computational Photography" is pretty much the same as Post Processing but includes more than what we typically think of when we talk about post processing. It includes what your camera does after you take a photo as well as what your computer does after you download the photo from your computer.

Doc Barry Loc: Huntsville, Alabama USA

Computational photography is another way to designate light-field (LF) photography. In short, a LF camera captures the dimensional information in a scene (not 3D). With this information, after the exposure the user can change where the focus is located in the scene, change the depth of field and its location, etc. Ren Ng did his dissertation on this technology while at Stanford and then started a company called Lytro. They produced several camera types, but the company essentially failed. A couple of yours ago Google acquired this company. Likely we will see LF technology appear in Google smartphones in the near future. If you want to know more, Google light-field photography. I note that LF photography is very computationally intense. Back in the early 2000s, Ren demonstrated his prototype camera at a SPIE workshop. It took about 10 minutes to process the image! Of course, Lytro developed a custom processor years later that got the time down better than an old Polaroid camera.

Also, some use the term computational photography in a broader sense such as digital creation of images or modification/enhancement of conventional photographic images or ....

TheShoe Loc: Lacey, WA

You could search using StartPage or other suggested engines.

Urnst Loc: Brownsville, Texas

Thanks for everyone's reply.