Google Images is continuing to make changes that benefit photographers. The image search engine is testing a new "Licensable" badge that aims to help photographers sell their photos through search results.
In big tech's continuing battle against the scourge of so-called "fake news" and manipulated imagery used to trick people online, Google has just added a major update to Google Image search: fact checking.
Creative Director Yousuke Ozawa—whose 'Satellite Fonts' project went viral back in 2014—is at it again. In order to keep his sanity during lockdown, he started taking "digital vacations" through Google Maps, and capturing Street View travel photography.
Google has added a new feature called 'Art Transfer' to its popular Arts & Culture app. The tool uses AI to "transform" all or part of your photo into the style of famous artists like Frida Kahlo, Vincent van Gogh, or Edvard Munch.
Google has announced that its computer vision algorithm will no longer tag photos with gender. According to an email sent to Developers yesterday, the AI-powered tool will no longer use gendered tags like "woman" or "man," and will default to "person" instead.
Facebook and Google have both sent cease-and-desist letters to Clearview AI demanding that the facial recognition startup stop scraping photos and videos to build up its face database.
Well, it was fun while it lasted. We reported over the weekend that iPhone users have been enjoying free and unlimited original-quality photo backups through Google Photos thanks to the ultra-efficient HEIC file format. Google is now calling it a "bug" and saying that it will be fixed.
Google today announced the new Pixel 4 and Pixel 4 XL smartphones, the first generation of Pixel phones to boast more than one camera.
About a month ago, a leaked promo video revealed that Google was going all in on low-light photography in the upcoming Pixel 4 smartphone, including a special "Astrophotography mode." Now, thanks to some leaked photos sent to 9to5Google, we get to see what Astrophotography Mode can do.
"Epoch" is a new video by Ireland-based visual artist Kevin McGloughlin. It's a mesmerizing animation that was created over several months entirely out of Google Earth satellite photos.
Google's new Pixel 3 and 3XL smartphones are packed with new AI camera features, including one called Night Sight that lets you shoot natural-looking photos without a flash in near darkness. The first reviews are starting to emerge, and the technology is blowing people's minds.
The New York Times has teamed up with Google Cloud for digitizing five to seven million old photos in its archive. Google's AI will also be tasked with unearthing "untold stories" in the massive trove of historical images.
If you own a Google Pixel 3 or 3 XL and have noticed any photos not getting saved to your gallery, it's not just you. Google has confirmed that its latest smartphones have a camera bug, and a fix is on the way.
Photographer Páraic McGloughlin took Google Earth satellite photos and strung them together into this extremely fast-paced animation titled Arena. The lines and shapes seen from a bird's-eye view are used to create movement in the frame.
Google has removed the "View Image" button from its Image Search results that had allowed anyone to quickly download the original image file while bypassing the host webpage. This is a step Google is taking to help protect photographers' copyrights.
Google has introduced a new AI system that's trained to rate photos on whether or not they are good technically and attractive aesthetically. It's called NIMA, or Neural Image Assessment
Google has just certified the Insta360 Pro 360-degree 8K camera as the first "Street View Auto Ready" camera, capable of contributing to Street View after being mounted to a car.
Google recently published a paper showing how easy it is for a computer to detect an identical watermark from a large collection of photos and then cleanly remove that watermark from each photo. Shutterstock has responded to Google's AI by developing a new randomized watermark that counters it.
Google this week launched a new desktop app that consolidates file backups for both Google Photos and Google Drive. It's called Backup and Sync, and is an easy way to protect your precious photos from being lost.
Can machines be trained to create photos that most people would think were shot by a professional human photographer? That's what Google is trying to figure out with a machine learning research project.
Google made a bunch of interesting and exciting camera-related announcements at I/O 2017, and we'll cover them all, but one of the most intriguing was also one of the shortest. Google briefly showed off a powerful "content aware fill" feature that left people wide-eyed and clapping furiously.
Google has created a new Featured Photos screensaver for Mac that lets you enjoy some of the best photos being created by photographers around the world.
Google scientists are brewing technology that could one day help you to "enhance!" photos with sharper results than current software on the market. Called RAISR, the system uses machine learning for intelligent upscaling.
Photo scanning smartphone apps, watch out... Google just peed all over your turf. With the release of the new PhotoScan app, the tech giant is swooping in to help people quickly and easily digitize that old box of prints languishing in the attic.
Google announced its new in-house Pixel smartphone this week, boasting that it has "the best smartphone camera ever." DxOMark agreed, giving the phone's camera a record-breaking score of 89. If you'd like a taste of the camera's quality, there are now sample photos showing how it performs in the real world.
Well, you can add "captioning photos" to the list of jobs robots will soon be able to do just as well as humans. After some training, the latest version of Google's "Show and Tell" algorithm can describe the contents of a photo with staggering 94% accuracy.
The Google Photos app just keeps getting better. First, the app made made backing up your iPhone's photos a breeze. Then it started turning Live Photos into stabilized GIFs. And now, now it can create themed slideshows a la Facebook, and make sharing your photos easier than ever.
Google released the Cardboard Camera app back in December, but until this week it was Android only. Well, no longer. The iOS version of the app just launched, enabling iPhone users to capture and share immersive 360° VR photos in a snap.
Google just made Apple's 'Live Photos' feature a whole lot more usable. No, that's not a typo, a new iOS app created by none other than Google just took the neat-but-often-ignored Apple feature to the next level.
Google today launched Cardboard Camera for Android, an app that lets you shoot 3D virtual reality photographs with a smartphone. Resulting photos can be viewed immersively through a Google Cardboard VR headset.
picsbuffet is a new visual image browsing system that lets you explore and search millions of photographs through an interface that feels like Google Maps.
Google and 500px announced today that they're teaming up to turn the living rooms of Chromecast users into digital photo galleries featuring the work of photographers who use 500px. The new feature arrives with the launch of Chromecast 2 and its Backdrop feature.
It's out with the old and in with the new: Google today announced its plan to shut down its Google+ Photos service after the launch of Google Photos back in May.
A group of Google researchers have created a new system called DeepStereo that can predict views of scenery it has never seen before. The technology allows a collection of images to be turned into a three-dimensional walkthrough using sophisticated algorithms to fill in areas that were absent from the photographs -- interpolating missing frames for a smooth experience.
The 2-minute video above shows some examples of what the system can create using Street View-style still photos.
Flickr sparked some controversy back in May after it was discovered that the service's new autotagging feature was prone to mislabeling black people as "apes." It looks like Google Photos developers didn't learn from Flickr's embarrassing misstep: a Google developer is apologizing after it was found that Google's Photos app misidentifies photos of black people as "gorillas."
Google Street View is an incredibly powerful tool that has helped to advance mapping in the 21st century. Since the company announced the ability to walk within and view 360-degree photographs of business locations, owners have been taking advantage of the feature to make their establishments stand out. Now, NCTech Imaging has created the iris360, a device that assists in capturing 360-degree images for Street View.
Camera apps these days already have the ability to analyze your scenes before you shoot them, but what if they could analyze your food before you eat it? That's what Google researchers are working on: they're trying to teach a computer to calculate calories from ordinary snapshots of food.
It has been rumored for months now that Google is planning to separate its Google+ Photos service from the social network as a standalone offering. That new service may be very near, and some first details about it are starting to emerge.
Google is planning to separate its photo services from Google+ to make it a standalone offering, and we're starting to see some shifts in service structuring.
The Mountain View-based company just announced that Google Drive users will be able to access their Google+ Photos images directly from inside Drive.
Two Internet heavyweights took big measures today to put restrictions on the sexually explicit photos and videos being shared through their services. Google is banning public adult content entirely on its Blogger platform, while Reddit is now requiring that all explicit photos be posted with the consent of their subjects.