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Playboy image from 1972 gets ban from IEEE computer journals
(arstechnica.com)
This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
Not really, it's a shared data set to make sure colours appear at uniform levels across different media and types of software in order to maintain stable image formats that can be sent over internet protocols...
...the whole point is to have a catalogue of standard test images to compare transfer and compression results to globally.