selfies

One of the biggest privileges of being a primatologist is spending time in remote locations with monkeys and apes, living near these animals in their habitats and experiencing their daily lives. As a 21st-century human, I have an immediate impulse to take pictures of these encounters and share them on social media.

Selfie-taking visitors are causing untold damage to priceless art in galleries, according to a new report.

A new law has banned tourists from stopping to take selfies on pedestrian bridges along the Las Vegas Strip -- or face being jailed.

Scientists studied 1,001 selfies to learn how people use them to communicate and concluded that these photos can be classified into five distinct categories: "aesthetics," "imagination," "trait," "state," and "theory of mind."

While taking a triumphant selfie during a hike might feel like a must-have souvenir from a wonderful day, park rangers in the United Kingdom warn hikers heading to The Trinnacle pillar to resist the temptation due to the area’s dangerous conditions.

Miranda Lambert has sparked an online debate after the country singer stopped a concert to call out fans taking a selfie and chastise them for not "listening to the song."

A picturesque Austrian town that is believed to have inspired Disney's Frozen has erected a fence in a bid to stop tourists from taking selfies.

An actor has broken the Guinness World Record for most selfies taken in three minutes, snapping 184 photos in total.

An anonymous artist has used artificial intelligence (AI) to "time travel" and take selfies in the past.

An American tourist has been rescued after falling into the crater of an active volcano trying to take a selfie. The tourist had taken a closed-off path up the face of Mount Vesuvius, in Italy, and had climbed down into the crater in a bid to recover his mobile phone which he had dropped.

A 22-year-old Indonesian college student has become a millionaire overnight after turning his collection of daily selfies into non-fungible tokens (NFTs) as a joke.

Faced with overcrowding, some National Parks in the United States have begun to roll out what are called "selfie stations" that are designed to redistribute visitors and promote less-well-known areas.

Photographer Noah Kalina is famous for his everyday project for which he has captured a selfie a day since the year 2000. 21 years in, Kalina has released this new video titled "7777 Days" that shows himself aging 21 years in the span of 2 minutes.

The next time you find yourself wanting to take a selfie with a gorilla, you may want to think twice: a new research study has found that tourists who try to take pictures with wild mountain gorillas could be putting the animals in danger of getting COVID-19 and other diseases.

The UK government is reportedly looking into enforcing COVID-19 quarantine by requiring people to shoot and send geotagged selfies at random times of the day.

Google has announced a new set of "people-centered" design guidelines around the face-altering selfie filters built into many smartphone camera apps. The initiative encourages companies to be more transparent about how they apply these filters, change the design language used, and give users more direct control over their experience.

Japanese company Tone Mobile has released a very... special... new smartphone. Aimed at parents who want to keep their kids from making bad choices, the TONE e20 has an AI-powered "Smartphone Protection" feature that prevents users from shooting or saving "inappropriate" photos (read: naked pictures).

Last Sunday, the Washington Redskins were on the cusp of winning their first home game since October of last year. After a game-clinching interception, all they had to do was go out there and run out the clock. Just one problem: the starting quarterback was busy taking selfies.

Sick of snapping selfies in which you or someone else has closed eyes or an unflattering facial expression? Google wants to use the power of AI to help you avoid that.

The word "selfie" has exploded into mainstream culture over the past decade as more and more people around the world shoot and share self-portraits using their smartphone's front-facing camera. And now the selfie has just unlocked a new achievement: it has its own museum.

The latest iPhones' tendency to aggressively smooth out skin in selfies is no more. Apple recently acknowledged that the phenomenon, dubbed "Beautygate" by some," was a bug and promised a fix. That fix just arrived in the new iOS 12.1 this week.

London police and authorities are working to prevent selfies from being taken at the charred remains of Grenfell Tower, and barriers were erected last week to block out the estimated two million people who would be passing through the area for the annual Notting Hill Carnival.

A small study out of Europe is confirming what many of us probably knew intuitively already: while plenty of people love taking their own selfies, most people have no interest in looking at anybody else's.

For some reason, "entry-level" mirrorless cameras almost all have one thing in common: a cringe-worthy focus on selfies—the Olympus E-PL8, Panasonic GF8, and Fuji's own X-A2 are all great examples of this. Sadly, Fujifilm has not strayed from this formula with the brand new entry-level X-A10.

In addition to the more exciting updates this week, Olympus also debuted their newest entry-level mirrorless interchangeable lens camera: the PEN E-PL8.

The Auto Insurance Center used Instagram hashtags to put together another study about people and driving. Last time, they tackled road rage, this time, they wanted to see where people take the most selfies while driving.

After seeing the trailer for Inception years ago, photographer Patrick Gilbert of North Bay, Ontario, recently decided to recreate the surreal "folding landscapes" in a series of drone selfies. The project is titled #BendNorthBay.

Computers are changing photography in a big way—from colorizing black and white photos automatically, to telling how memorable your photos are. And now, a new imaging technology can change the apparent focal length of a photo, making it look like a wide-angle selfie was taken from further way with a portrait lens.

Justin Bieber announced this week that he will no longer stop to take photos with fans while out in public. He says things have gotten to the point in which he feels like "a zoo animal" due to the endless impersonal picture requests.

Shootlr is a new iOS and Android app that turns selfies and photo taking into a social experience that you do with friends and family. Instead of shooting and sharing selfies and snaps yourself, you can use the app to request pictures from others.