Google is hosting its annual I/O conference today, and while much of the focus is on the company's own tech, there's also fresh news for photographers. Google and Skylum have partnered to bring Luminar photo editing software to Android and ChromeOS.
Storage technology company Synology has announced BeeStation Plus, a high-speed cloud storage system designed for use in homes and small businesses.
Through the Cultura Foundation, the Finnish government has awarded photographer Tim Sullivan a €20,000 ($22,497) grant to produce a new photobook documenting post-Soviet Russian language learners in Finland.
Actor Denzel Washington got into a heated exchange with a photographer on the red carpet at the Cannes Film Festival yesterday.
The SD Association (SDA) is getting out the candles and celebrating the SD card's 25th birthday. Calling it "the world's favorite memory card," the SD is now old enough to rent a car in the United States.
Adobe increased the prices of some of its Photography plans earlier this year, and the situation got pretty complex. Now the company is changing its broader Creative Cloud plan offerings in North America, including a new, more expensive option that replaces the existing Creative Cloud All Apps plan.
Polaroid and The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) are collaborating on a stylish new version of the Polaroid Now Generation 3 instant film camera and accompanying limited-edition i-Type Film adorned with the MoMA logo or quotes from artists in MoMA's collection.
Astronomers have captured a supermassive black hole tearing a star apart -- and doing so far from where the mysterious celestial objects are typically found.
Lil Nas X has beaten a lawsuit brought by a photographer who alleged that the rapper had copied his poses in several of his copyrighted images on Instagram.
President Donald Trump signed a bill that bans the sharing of non-consensual, explicit images -- whether real or AI-generated. The legislation also requires tech platforms to remove such pictures within 48 hours of being notified about them.
A Reddit user shared an alarming video filmed on his smartphone camera which was destroyed after he pointed it at a vehicle's lidar.
Last week, an un-cited report alleged that Sony was about to initiate price increases across a range of its photo products, including accessories, compact cameras, and lenses. The supposed increases varied between 10% and 35%, but Sony declined to comment on the veracity of the report.
NASA's Mars Perseverance rover, which just captured auroras from the Martian surface for the first time, also recently captured a predawn landscape shot that includes Deimos, the smaller of Mars' two moons.
Travel photography blog Capture the Atlas has announced the winners of its annual Milky Way Photographer of the Year competition. The curated 2025 collection features 25 of the best Milky Way photos captured worldwide, and, for the first time, includes a Milky Way photo captured from outer space.
OWC announced a new Thunderbolt 5 Dock that delivers 11 ports through a single cable input for what the company says is the highest bandwidth available.
Texas is poised to become the first state in the U.S. to ban minors under the age of 18 from using social media.
NASA has announced the winners of its annual Photographer of the Year Awards with Michael Democker taking home the top prize.
Razer has announced a new Blade 14 laptop that is mostly an upgrade from the previous model the company launched in 2024. It’s the thinnest and lightest Razer laptop to date and brings the newer 14-inch laptop in line with the latest CPU and GPU hardware.
Nikon was Japan's best-selling full-frame mirrorless camera manufacturer last month for the first time. This was thanks in large part to the new Nikon Z5 II.
With cameras banned in the courtroom, TV station Law&Crime is providing coverage of the Sean “Diddy” Combs’ sex trafficking trial by recreating proceedings with generative AI.
A photographer in Colorado who was out capturing an unexpected aurora lights display got more than he bargained for when his camera picked up a brilliant flash of white light in the sky.
Chinese smartphone maker Nubia's latest handheld, the Z70S Ultra, goes all in on a Leica-inspired photography experience. However, unlike some smartphones that have official Leica-engineered imaging systems and photo features, the Nubia Z70S Ultra is more of an homage, complete with Leica's iconic red dot logo.
Daredevil urban explorer photographer Isaac Wright, more commonly known as "Drift", was arrested at his first solo show in New York City after police used his photo as evidence that he had climbed to the top of the Empire State Building.
Lucasfilm has horrified fans by showing off a series of AI-generated animals that allegedly belong in the Star Wars universe.
A video of a woman scrolling on a totally transparent 'smartphone' while waiting in line at a bubble tea shop in San Francisco has blown up on TikTok, but what exactly is going on?
The Metropolitan Museum of Art is set to receive over 6,500 historical and contemporary photography works from world-renowned collector Artur Walther and the Walther Family Foundation.
The 2025 Environmental Photography Awards gallery winners are a collection of inspirational to downright heart-wrenching photos that show just how powerful photographers can be.
Glass Imaging, a technology company developing groundbreaking artificial intelligence to improve digital image quality, unveiled a $20 million Series A funding round this week led by Insight Partners. The new Series A funding round is in addition to a previous funding round led by Google Ventures, Future Ventures, and Abstract Ventures.
Earlier this week, Photo Rumors (which did not cite a source) reported that a long list of Sony camera products will see a price increase on Monday, May 19. Sony has declined to confirm or deny the claims to PetaPixel.
The China International Photographic Equipment and Electrical Imaging Machinery and Technology Fair (China P&E) started today in Beijing with a number of companies on-site to announce and tease their latest gear. Here are some of the highlights so far.