Monument Labs has begun crowdfunding for its second-generation personal cloud storage device, the Monument 2. Featuring a host of upgraded, AI-powered smart features, it's designed to work like Google Photos or iCloud, but entirely owned by you.
In a blog post, Google has announced that it is halting unlimited storage for High Quality photos starting June 1, 2021. Any High Quality photos uploaded after that will be subject to the free 15 GB of storage that comes with every Google account, with additional storage coming at a fee.
Google Photos has for some time asked users to verify its results for facial recognition or image content accuracy, but now the app is taking requests one step further: it's asking you to label all your images from scratch, not just verify results, to help train the algorithm.
Four strings of code have been found in Photos version 5.18 that seem to indicate that Google is planning to lock key editing features behind the Google One subscription paywall, melding access to the full service into Google's paid platform.
In February of this year, Google introduced a photo printing service powered by artificial intelligence. It would select, print, and send you your "best" photos every month, but the trial service was halted in June with the hopes of evolving the program and making it more widely available – now it's back.
Google has unveiled a major update for the Google Photos app. The update adds two new AI-powered photo editing tools: a one-tap editing feature that tailors suggestions to your specific photo, and an intelligent 'Portrait Light' feature that lets you alter lighting post-capture.
If you're a Canon shooter who struggles with backing up your photos on a regular basis, you may be happy to know that there's a new integration with Google Photos that allows for automatic image backups over Wi-Fi.
Google is contacting a small percentage of Google Photos users to notify them that a bug in the company's "Takeout" system for downloading your data accidentally sent some users' private videos to random strangers. Oops...
Google Photos is testing a "Monthly Photo Prints" subscription service that uses the company's algorithms to automatically select and print your 10 "best" photos each month. Could Google help bring the 4x6 print back from the dead?
Google announced today that it will be adding a private messaging feature to Google Photos, making it possible to share one-off images and video with friends and family without having to create a shared album or leave the app.
Facebook has released a new tool that'll allows you to bulk-export all of your photos and videos to another service or social network in just a couple of clicks, starting with Google Photos.
Google is rolling out a long-overdue feature to Google Photos: manual face tagging. The app now offers the ability to fill in tags for faces that it failed to identify.
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.
When the Google Pixel 4 was announced this week, it was revealed that it would be the first Pixel phone to not provide all users with free unlimited original-quality backups on Google Photos. But in a strange twist, thanks to a "loophole," owners of newer iPhone models do get free unlimited original-quality storage in the Google cloud.
Google announced a couple of updates to Google Photos today, including an intriguing new partnership with Walmart and CVS that will allow users to order and pick up 4x6 prints of their photos from over 11,000 U.S. locations. Users will also be able to order wall art directly from Google.
Google is rolling out a powerful new feature to its Googles Photos app: you can now search for pictures by the text found within them.
Google has released an update to the Google Photos app for iOS that brings bokeh adjustment for Portrait mode photos.
Google Photos is taking another step towards being a social photo sharing app that can compete with the likes of Facebook, Instagram, and Flickr. Google has unveiled the ability to "star" and "heart" photos.
Google wowed attendees at its I/O developer conference last week with a number of AI-powered photo technologies, including automatically colorizing black-and-white photos with one tap. But there's one impressive feature teased at last year's event that hasn't arrived yet: object removal.
Google is taking to the stage at the Google I/O developer conference this week to show off its new products and technologies, one of which is a new AI-powered version of Google Photos. The new app will feature a host of new intelligent features, including the ability to colorize black-and-white photos with one tap.
Alex Harker was skiing with friends at the Lake Louise ski resort in Banff, Alberta, a week ago when the group stopped to take some photos on Harker's Android smartphone. After shooting a few shots, Harker found that the AI-powered panorama stitching feature inside his Google Photos app had created the photo above as the suggested panorama for his scene.
Pholio is a new device that's aiming to take on Google Photos with a hard drive for your photos that's searchable by using keywords. The difference here is that Pholio keeps your data secure, and searchable while remaining offline and not relying on cloud services.
Google Photos is now able to identify and recognize your furry feline or canine companions, pulling together albums specifically featuring them.
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.
Google has been steadily adding features to their Google Photos app since I/O 2017. The new archive feature isn’t the most exciting of them, but it has an interesting trick up its sleeve.
Alongside Google Lens and an interesting content-aware fill feature announced by Google at I/O 2017, the company also revealed some new sharing features coming to their Google Photos app: Suggested Sharing, Shared Libraries, and Photo Books.
In addition to stepping on Photoshop's toes, Google also spent some time at yesterday's keynote showing off something called "Google Lens": a technology that basically turns your phone's camera into an artificially intelligent visual search tool.
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 released version 2.13 for its Google Photos app for Android, and the latest update brings a helpful new feature for people who shoot a lot of home videos: stabilization that can be applied to any video.
A growing number of users are turning to Google's ever-improving Photos app to backup their ever-growing camera roll. But while the main function of Google Photos is storage, the app's automatic photo editing features are getting more and more robust. Today, that means auto white balance.
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 has announced a new update for Google Photos that brings four new features for finding, animating, and rotating your precious memories.
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.
The Google Photos app wants to be a staple... for iOS photographers. Just a month after poking fun at 16GB iPhones and offering Google Photos as a storage solution, the tech giant has updated the app once again. This time, they want to make your iPhone's 'Live Photos' a lot more usable.
If you often take pictures with a "small-capacity" 16GB iPhone, one thing you may often experience is the dreaded popup that tells you you've run out of storage space. It's particularly painful when the popup appears while you're trying to capture a special moment. This 1-minute ad shows that Google feels your pain.
This past weekend marked the first birthday of Google Photos, the long-awaited standalone photo hosting and sharing service that was announced back on May 28, 2015. To celebrate the occasion, Google has some interesting facts and helpful tips for you.
There's a simple, obvious power housed inside of a photograph. Even a poorly lit snapshot captured at arm's length with a few friends squeezed uncomfortably into the frame, even it is immeasurably precious because it contains the seeds of a memory.
This short doc by Google Photos reminds us of that fact.
Google announced this week that its Google Photos app on Android now supports non-destructive editing. You're now free to make drastic changes without worrying about writing over the original file, because all edits are now reversible.
After a trip or event, sifting through all the photos you've taken and selecting just the best ones can be a daunting task. To make the process a bit easier, Google Photos today announced a feature that can put together albums for you.
Google has been making big moves into the world of digital photos recently through its Google Photos product, which offers free and unlimited storage and sharing. As the popularity of the service grows -- over 100 million people use it now -- the relevance of another fades: Google announced today that it's shutting down Picasa to focus solely on Google Photos.