In a development that should come as no surprise, Synology's self-branded SSDs for its newest NAS systems have arrived, and they are expensive.

To celebrate its 10th anniversary, German AI company PRC, best known for its Excire photo-management software, hosted a photo contest judged entirely by AI. The winners have been revealed. Did the AI evaluator make the right picks?

Footage taken from the sky and from the ground has captured just how fast floods arrived in Texas over the Fourth of July holiday weekend, which has killed at least 82 people with hundreds more unaccounted for.

A little over a week after U.S. President Donald Trump told Fox News that a group of "very wealthy people" would buy TikTok from its Chinese parent company, ByteDance, a new report suggests that TikTok is developing a new version of its app specifically for users in the United States.

British rock group Oasis -- best-known for their hit single Wonderwall -- has gotten into an unusual spat with a group of photo agencies over licensing rights.

After winning the British Grand Prix yesterday, McLaren Formula 1 driver Lando Norris was hurt when a photographer fell off the fence he was standing on, resulting in a cut to Norris's face.

NASA astronaut Nichole 'Vapor' Ayers captured a spectacular image of a sprite, a rare form of lightning that shoots up from a thunderstorm.

A pause on U.S. tariffs levied against many of its trading partners that was expected to expire this coming week on July 9 has now been pushed back to August 1, U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said today on CNN.

Sharks Up Close With Bertie Gregory premiered yesterday on National Geographic and is streaming now on Disney+ and Hulu. The series follows the world-renowned wildlife filmmaker and National Geographic Explorer as he travels to South Africa to search for one of Earth's most feared predators, the great white shark (Carcharodon carcharias). PetaPixel chatted with the show's cinematographer, underwater filmmaking specialist Dan Beecham.

Swedish sports photographer Joel Marklund has had an illustrious two-decade career as a photographer. Marklund shoots about every sport on the planet and is co-owner and chief photographer at Bildbyrån, Scandinavia's premier sports photography agency.

While many photographers will venture out to their local Fourth of July fireworks shows armed with a dedicated camera kit, what if you only have your smartphone on hand? It's still possible to get great shots as Google Senior Product Manager Alex King and Pixel Camera Senior Product Manager Michael Specht explain.

Today, the Mad Hatter Gallery in Las Cruces opens "Trichromatic Vision," a new solo photography exhibit by artist Bill Morée that blends experimental technique with a deep inquiry into human perception. Known for his work in political and documentary photography, Morée’s latest project represents a shift, both geographic and artistic, toward a more introspective and sensory-focused exploration of image-making.

This Friday, Netflix is set to make a splash with the premiere of All the Sharks. This high-octane competition series brings marine science and underwater photography to the forefront of mainstream entertainment. Blending the thrill of adventure with a focus on shark conservation, the six-episode series follows four teams of dedicated shark experts as they race to document the most shark species in some of the world’s most spectacular marine environments.

The newest entry in Nikon's fantastic ongoing "The Thousand and One Nights" series focuses on the Nikon Mini AF600QD compact camera, which was known as the Nikon Lite-Touch AF elsewhere. When it launched in 1993, it was the smallest and lightest autofocus-equipped camera.

In 2012, beneath the unassuming asphalt of a Leicester City Council car park, history stirred. Archaeologists and historians from the University of Leicester, in collaboration with amateur enthusiasts and the Richard III Society, undertook a dig many thought more symbolic than scientific.

Canadian musician turned photographer Malcolm-Jay Wilson is back with another awesome camera conversion project. In 2023, Wilson converted a broken Yashica Electro 35mm film camera into a Raspberry Pi-powered digital camera. Now he has returned with an infrared camera sensor to create a compact IR point-and-shoot camera.

In what is quickly becoming a bi-annual tradition, the PetaPixel Podcast team welcomes Camera Labs' Gordon Laing back onto the pod to play proctor! It's time for the midterms: how is every camera maker doing so far in 2025? Well, that is, if they decided to show up and take the test.

The Genki Moonbase is a stylish and powerful power strip that is sure to liven up any workspace. It's also chock-full of ports, featuring three AC outlets and four USB-C ports.

A bridal photo shoot turned into a nasty experience after lightning struck near a group of people, and several of them required hospital treatment.

David Day’s photography bends the rules of reality, transforming everyday objects into dreamlike abstractions through intentional camera movement (ICM) in a studio setting. At the crux of art and experimentation, Day spoke with PetaPixel, inviting viewers to discover his process and how he turns layers of light, motion, and imagination into photographic art.

A police department in Maine has been tripped up by modern photo editing after it posted an AI-generated image of a drug bust.

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) and Chandra X-ray Observatory combined their efforts to look at the Bullet Cluster in a new way, enabling scientists to precisely map the cluster's dark matter.