An alleged former Russian spy whale -- who first appeared four years ago with a GoPro camera mount and clips bearing the inscription "Equipment of St Petersburg" -- has been spotted again off the coast of Sweden.
A Taylor Swift fan started a social media debate between Apple and Samsung smartphone users after she used her iPhone 14 Pro Max's zoom to impressively focus on the singer at her concert.
According to a Meta spokesman, Facebook and Instagram will block news articles in California if state lawmakers pass a proposed bill, the California Journalism Preservation Act.
Kanye West is being sued by a photographer after the rapper threw her phone into the street during an encounter earlier this year.
Instagram has revealed how it recommends content to users in order to dispel “misconceptions” about how the app’s algorithm.
A bride has described her sister-in-law's anger after she got her wedding photographer to edit her niece's "inappropriate" white dress to look light blue in the photos.
Visitors to Yellowstone Park are getting too close to bison in pursuit of a great photo -- with some having to flee to avoid getting gored.
Since Adobe Photoshop launched its new artificial intelligence (AI) Generative Fill tool last week, the "photoverse" has been awash with its awesome power. PetaPixel has rounded up some of the most remarkable examples so far.
About a week after an artificial intelligence (AI) generated image of an explosion outside the Pentagon went viral on Twitter, the social media giant is using its crowdsourced fact-checking program, Community Notes, to fight back against fake or misleading images.
A group of surviving victims of the atomic bombing of the Japanese city of Nagasaki are using a U.S. military photo as new evidence in a lawsuit claiming that they were exposed to radiation.
A government official in India has been suspended after he drained a reservoir of over two million liters of water so he could retrieve the smartphone he dropped in it while taking a selfie.
Georgia officials are urging people to stop taking naked selfies for their driver's license and state ID photos.
A tech start-up has developed a "non-disposable digital disposable camera" to bring some of the romance of film photography to the modern world.
A TikTok creator noticed there was something troublingly "off" about her face when she filmed a video using the app's front-facing camera.
Backyard astrophotographer Andrew McCarthy has captured a stunning shot of the International Space Station (ISS) crossing a crescent moon.
In a funny on-air moment, a meteorologist got a huge fright after a pigeon flew directly at a live outdoor weather camera.
A photographer froze his camera overnight to capture a stunning timelapse video of the night sky in winter.
Facebook and Instagram parent company Meta completed yet another round of layoffs Wednesday, what is likely the final batch of job cuts the company announced in March.
Never-before-seen footage shows the moment that a giant triangular-shaped unidentified flying object (UFO) was seen hovering over a Californian military base -- in a sighting that was witnessed by over U.S. 50 marines.
Noticing a lack of options on the market, the United States Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) has released a set of royalty-free stock photos that feature people with disabilities using common home safety devices.
Shutterstock is set to acquire animated GIF platform Giphy from Facebook and Instagram owner Meta for $53 million in cash, a divestment that the social media company is making in order to comply with United Kingdom regulators.
Just days after a group of TikTok users filed a lawsuit against Montana seeking to overturn the state's controversial legislation to ban the popular social media app, TikTok itself has sued Montana over the new law.
A mind-bending optical illusion tricks the viewer into seeing a woman with blue eyes in a photo -- when her eyes are actually gray.
Google's Photos app is still unable to find photos of gorillas -- eight years after a controversy over its "racist" algorithm which was mislabelling Black people as them.
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 artificial intelligence (AI) generated photo which showed a fake explosion outside the Pentagon went viral and caused the markets to briefly dip today.
Animal shelters, human societies, and pet adoption centers typically use photos to showcase their available animals, and studies have shown how important images are to prospective pet adopters. The Ottawa Humane Society thought it'd be entertaining to pretend their camera broke and were forced to create drawings of their animals.
Meta was rumored to be working on a standalone Twitter competitor, and a new leak shows not only what it might look like, but also how it would pair and sync with Instagram and other apps.
Prince Harry and Meghan Markle have reportedly sent a legal demand to a photo agency ordering that it hand over images taken during what the couple said was a “near-catastrophic” car chase.
Social media users have been debating which camera has the most satisfying shutter sound of them all.
