As part of a broader justice reform bill, French lawmakers have given French police the legal authority to spy on suspects by remotely activating cameras, microphones, and GPS location functionality on a person's smartphone and other connected devices.
Huawei sub-brand Honor has launched the Honor 90 smartphone in Europe. The new phone is light on price but heavy on megapixels. The Honor 90 starts at €549, about $670, and sports a 200-megapixel main camera.
Meta, formerly Facebook, is no stranger to ripping off features from other social networks and hopping on popular trends. But this time, with Threads, the company finally picked a good time and a good angle to play copycat.
The IceCube Neutrino Observatory has produced an image of the Milky Way galaxy using neutrinos. The groundbreaking image is the first of its kind and provides critical evidence that the Milky Way is a source of high-energy neutrinos.
Midjourney keeps churning out new tools including a new panoramic feature allowing users to create wider scenes from generated images.
Researchers in Hawaii are using drone cameras to study the ages of dolphins in free-ranging groups to better understand their populations and therefore better inform conservation efforts.
Adobe seems to be cracking down on employees using artificial intelligence (AI), including restricting workers’ abilities to sign up for services with their personal emails.
Atomos has announced Ninja Cast Desktop Software, providing users with complete control over the AtomX Cast add-on from a computer. Available for macOS and Windows, Ninja Cast delivers remote access over the AtomX Cast's settings and controls.
A photographer out on a family hike came home with a set of rare photos after he spotted a cougar high up on a ridge.
Epson has announced two new high-resolution photo scanners that are designed to make digitizing photos simple and approachable, both in their design and pricing.
A baseball game was stopped yesterday after a ball forcefully struck a cameraman in the face and he was taken to hospital.
An alarming detail about the newly-launched Threads app has come to light -- deleting a Threads account will also delete your Instagram account.
Threads, an Instagram App is available now. Meta's much-anticipated Twitter competitor aims to capitalize on Twitter's recent woes following Elon Musk's takeover last year and offering users a new text-based social network platform free from all the drama.
A group of researchers has developed a new camera that is sensitive enough to detect a single photon. This large photon camera isn't unique in its purpose, but separates itself thanks to its ability to capture 400 times the resolution of previous photon cameras.
While people in Canada and the United States recently celebrated national holidays with fireworks, the James Webb Space Telescope observed a violent cosmic explosion more than 120 million light-years from Earth.
Tenba has expanded its best-selling collection of Axis V2 bags with new sizes and styles, including new sling bags and backpacks.
Photographer Steven Haining and model Ciara Antoski together set the record for the deepest photo shoot ever recorded when the two of them and a team of professionals completed a shoot 32 feet below the surface near Tobermory, Ontario, Canada.
Few companies have as many ardent fans as LEGO and Disney, so the newly unveiled Disney Tribute Camera LEGO set is sure to pique the interest of enthusiastic LEGO and Disney collectors alike.
Shutterstock is paying online influencers and photographers who generate images with artificial intelligence (AI) to promote its image generator.
The crack of a bat crushing a baseball is one of the quintessential sounds of summer. However, for sports photographers, the cracking sound of a big, expensive front lens element is becoming depressingly common.
Lomography's new LomoChrome Color '92 ISO 400 film harkens back to the company's early days and brings the "unforgettable energy" of the 1990s into a new film emulsion that promises accurate colors and "powerful" film grain.
A new study has found that passively scrolling social media can make people feel lonely and even cause psychological distress.
Sky Elements Drone Shows set a Guinness World Record for its Fourth of July drone show in the Dallas-Fort Worth area of Texas. Sky Elements Drone Shows produced 40 shows during the extended holiday weekend using more than LED-equipped 10,000 drones, including 1,002 just at the show in Texas.
Panasonic has announced an upcoming firmware update that will bring the GH6 Micro Four Thirds camera some new features, including the ability to output 4K at 120p and shoot 12-bit Blackmagic RAW.
On this week's episode of The PetaPixel Podcast, Chris, Jordan, and Jaron discuss the last week in the news as well as ponder this question: Would you continue to create if you knew pretty much no one would appreciate your work during your lifetime... or ever?
A wildlife photographer's stunning series of images capture the moment an animal "sees" him as their eyes meet his own.
A TV crew working in the occupied West Bank was apparently targeted by Israeli forces who fired at a camera -- shooting it into a flaming wreck.
A resurfaced interview with a videographer who dove to the bottom of the ocean onboard the ill-fated Titan sub says that the OceanGate CEO suggested the crew sleep inside the submersible after the battery went "kaput."
Pen display tablets have been getting better and more affordable, so it makes sense that all-in-one devices like the Huion Kamvas Studio 16 would follow the same path. But what makes this device a little different is it's a pro pen tablet made for designers, illustrators, and photographers to help them get their art created quickly and easily while also being a fully functional Windows PC.
In his latest video, landscape photographer Michael Shainblum shares five of his favorite techniques for using Adobe Lightroom's powerful masking tools.