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.
A group of TikTok users filed a lawsuit against Montana seeking to overturn the state's ban of the video app -- which was the first-of-its-kind in the nation.
An aspiring wedding photographer suffered a "huge setback" after her mom accidentally donated her brand new $3,000 camera to Goodwill -- sparking a huge campaign to get the camera back.
A photographer developed the images on a used disposable camera that she bought at a thrift store and then managed to track down the family in the seventeen-year-old photos in a heartwarming story.
Multiple photographers and writers for Outdoor Photographer Magazine say they haven't been paid for their work since last year and the publication's new owner indicates that these contributors only have themselves to blame.
Montana has officially become the first state to completely ban Chinese-owned video app TikTok in the U.S.
Google has announced it will delete a user's Google Photos if they have not logged into their account for two years.
The United States Supreme Court has released its opinion on The Andy Warhol Foundation v. Goldsmith case, finding in favor of Lynn Goldsmith and stating that Warhol's use of her photo was not fair use.
A wedding photographer's quick thinking prevented a disaster after a bride's huge diamond ring went missing.
Action cameras like the Insta360 enable users to capture photos and videos from fresh, unique perspectives. While devices like the Insta360 and GoPro cameras are often marketed as ideal for humans, people have strapped them to their furry friends, including viral star Gonzo, a cat.
Prince George's County Public Schools in Maryland has become the latest U.S. school district to sue Meta and TikTok for allegedly contributing to the mental health crisis among young people in recent months.
Meghan Markle and Prince Harry were involved in a "near catastrophic car chase at the hands of a ring of highly aggressive paparazzi" in New York City yesterday.
A trail camera set up by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service captured a mountain lion stalking an elk -- but the predator is fiendishly difficult to spot.
A Formula 1 racing fan attending the recent Miami Grand Prix was told at the gate that he couldn't bring in his mirrorless camera, so he came up with an unusual alternate plan: he instead decided to shoot the race with a floppy disk camera made in 2000.
TikTok is introducing a new $6 million fund to pay creators for making viral effects and filters -- in the first reward system of its kind on the platform.
Two professional photographers have scored early victories in a pair of long-running copyright lawsuits against artist Richard Prince for his controversial Instagram-sourced New Portraits series.
An artist has used Photoshop to bring legendary historical figures -- such as William Shakespeare, Abraham Lincoln, Pocahontas, and Harriet Tubmman -- back to life.
Mac Star Cameras and Electronics in Corona, California, was robbed last month and newly released security footage from inside the store shows 13 people ransacking the store and making off with around $65,000 worth of products in about three minutes.
A former top executive at TikTok's parent company ByteDance has claimed that it built a "backdoor channel" in its code that allowed the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) access to user data in the U.S. in a new lawsuit.
British photographer Simon Mitchell was killed on Sunday at the British Motocross Championships when a motorbike struck him.
A photographer was forced to go to the hospital after being wiped out during an XFL football championship game -- the incident delayed the match by more than 10 minutes.
An extremely rare white killer-whale calf named "Frosty" has been filmed off the coast of southern California.
This mind-bending World War II photograph with "floating trees" may look like it is an optical illusion or cloned on Photoshop -- but it is actually a real image.
A YouTuber has come clean about crashing his airplane on purpose as he faces jail for obstructing a federal investigation by cleaning up the wreckage himself.
An American tourist in Bali had a shocking experience after an elephant bit and broke her arm while she was posing for a photo with the animal in a resort.
Meta is testing a new payout model that will pay Facebook and Instagram creators based on how many views their Reels get.
Minnesota has advanced a bill to criminalize the sharing of sexual and political deepfakes -- as lawmakers across the U.S. rush to combat the rise of artificial intelligence (AI).
A 23-year-old social media influencer who created an AI version of herself so that it could be a companion to thousands of men says it has gone rogue.
A professional skier filmed the heart-stopping moment when he got caught in an avalanche -- while his friend was seriously injured trying to save him when he got swept up in a second avalanche that dropped him 1,600 feet at a speed of 50 miles per hour.
A viral video featuring Vice President Kamala Harris rambling during a speech has been revealed as a deepfake.
A photographer has divided the internet after she revealed that she used editing software to restock a grocery store shelf to make an image more aesthetically pleasing.
A new social media app called Hotshot uses artificial intelligence (AI) to generate fake photos of users and their friends -- in any scenario that they want.
After a gunman opened fire outside a crowded mall in Allen, Texas on Saturday, grisly images spread onto social media showing the lifeless and blood-splattered bodies of the victims and the assailant.
A photographer will get a $105,000 payout from the City of Atlanta after being arrested during the Black Lives Matter (BLM) protest in 2020.
Tesla sensationally tried to claim that a seven-year-old video (above) of the company's CEO Elon Musk may be an artificial intelligence (AI) generated deepfake in a wrongful death lawsuit.
Google plans to make its search results more "visual" with short videos and social media posts -- in what is expected to be the biggest overhaul of its search engine yet.
TikTok reportedly tracked users who watched gay content on the platform and put them on a secret list.
Artificial intelligence (AI) pioneer Dr. Geoffrey Hinton, 75, recently claimed that AI's threat to the world might be more urgent than climate change.
An AI image creator received a "pretty insane" and "extremely disappointing" message from Midjourney in response to a joke he made about having access to v6.
Portraying injustices is not something novel. From the beginning of the twentieth century to the present day, many photographers have been concerned about leaving their mark. But can we try to change the world – even make it a better place – through a photograph?
The creators of a disturbing viral beer commercial that was entirely generated from artificial intelligence (AI) say that it is designed to invoke our anxiety around AI.
