Technology

A new photo app called "Firsties" is designed to help parents safely share their kids' photos amid rising child privacy concerns on social media.

Haggis is as Scottish as tartan and ginger hair. But many foreigners are clueless as to what haggis actually is and Scots are using AI images to fill in the blanks.

Aerial footage has revealed how remote-controlled drones are being used to scare bears away from human-populated areas.

Microsoft is reportedly in talks with TikTok to buy the app, at least that's according to President Trump who also says he would like to see a bidding war.

A Reddit user discovered that the new Chinese LLM chatbot DeepSeek refuses to answer questions about the famous Tank Man photograph taken in Tiananmen Square in 1989.

The Explode app allows users to send disappearing photos in iMessage -- in a similar way to features on Snapchat and WhatsApp.

The Chinese AI company DeepSeek -- which has sent shockwaves through the U.S. stock market this week -- has unveiled a new AI image generator that it claims can outperform OpenAI's DALL-E 3.

Apple is reportedly developing a version of visionOS -- its operating system for Apple Vision Pro -- that will work with smart glasses.

Taiwanese computer hardware company Team Group, best known for its PC memory products, announced a 2TB SD card. Unlike the few other 2TB SD cards on the market, this high-capacity card promises high speeds and sports a V90 rating.

Computational photography features raise the hackles of many photographers, but many examples of these tools help photographers bring their creative visions to life and make their lives easier. That sounds good to me, not scary.

The OWC Atlas CFexpress Type A memory card is one of PetaPixel's favorites, but OWC has found an issue with the card, and customers are advised to update their card's firmware as soon as possible. The good news is that the data on the card is safe.

For those lucky enough to have one of the new Thunderbolt 5-equipped Macs, including the latest MacBook Pro and redesigned Mac mini, there are very few Thunderbolt 5 external SSDs to take full advantage of the new speed. LaCie's new Rugged SSD Pro5 aims to address that problem. But does it do so effectively?

This AI tool, which was trained on millions of images, can find the location of a photo in seconds.

Instagram users may have noticed their profile grid is now displaying their photos in rectangle format rather than square. For some photographers, the change has wreaked havoc with their carefully curated profile.

Graphic designers have been complaining that the influx of AI-generated images on stock photo websites is "slowly ruining" them.

Used smartphones with TikTok installed are being sold on eBay for $14,000 -- as the video platform remains unavailable on U.S. app stores.

Canon Inc. developed a groundbreaking 410-megapixel full-frame CMOS image sensor, setting a new record for the most pixels achieved on a 35mm image sensor.

On his first day back in the White House, President Trump revoked nearly 80 of President Biden's executive orders, including the one Biden signed in October 2023 to establish federal regulations concerning artificial intelligence (AI).

Instagram is rolling out "Edits," a new video editing app that closely resembles the Chinese-owned platform CapCut, which went offline along with TikTok.

President Donald Trump has signed an executive order to delay TikTok's ban for 75 days, giving the Chinese-owned video app more time to find a U.S. buyer.

With TikTok expected to be banned in the United States on Sunday leaving 170 million users locked out, Americans on the app have been poking fun with "Thank you to my Chinese spy" videos.

A new photo sharing app called Flashes is about to be rolled out and it is closely linked with the Twitter alternative Bluesky.

Israeli artificial intelligence (AI) company Botika secured $8 million in seed funding to help it further develop its generative AI technology that can turn a simple product shot of clothing into an entire fashion shoot, complete with AI-generated human models.

A Chinese social media app called RedNote is currently at the top of the App Store charts after TikTok users are reportedly fleeing there ahead of the imminent ban.

Reliable Apple insider Mark Gurman laid out Apple's plans for 2025, including a new ultra-thin iPhone and a bunch of new Macs.

With the impending TikTok ban set for January 19, a report has emerged that Chinese officials are weighing up selling the app to Elon Musk.

Content creators are having an unexpected boon: artificial intelligence companies are buying their unpublished videos for training purposes.

As someone who spent over a decade in the stock photography and creative tools industry, I’ve seen firsthand how it has evolved. The news of a potential Getty and Shutterstock merger made me think about how the stock photography industry actors found themselves at a crossroads and what future lies ahead.

LG's new UltraFine 6K monitor is the first to support the new lightning-fast Thunderbolt 5 standard.

Elon Musk and former OpenAI chief scientist Ilya Sutskever say that AI companies have run out of real-world data to train generative models on.

AI-generated pictures of people have started appearing in their Instagram feeds and it's alarming folk.

While imaging companies rarely use CES as a platform to launch new consumer cameras and lenses anymore, the major electronics tradeshow remains a great place for camera makers to show off interesting technology. Sony unveiled the mocopi Pro Kit this week in Las Vegas, a groundbreaking motion capture solution for creating animation, gaming, virtual reality, and live streaming content.

Apple's redesigned M4 Mac mini is great. It even won PetaPixel's award for Computer of the Year. But it can be better, and consumer electronics company Satechi hopes to help with a new Mac mini hub.

Swiss tech company PocketBook, Japanese electronics company Sharp, and Massachusetts-based E Ink teamed up to create InkPoster, a super-efficient e-ink digital display for artwork and photography.

Nvidia unveiled new GeForce RTX 50 Series GPUs for desktop and laptop PCs at CES. Built on Nvidia's Blackwell architecture, the new GPUs promise significantly improved performance for generative AI tasks alongside advanced hardware encoding for video editing and livestream applications.

CEO of Meta Mark Zuckerberg says the company is getting rid of fact-checkers from Instagram, Facebook, and Threads in a move that will "dramatically reduce the amount of censorship" on the platforms.

Razer rolled out a slew of new products at CES 2025, led by another iteration of its Blade 16 laptop. Gamers are still the primary targets, but the company has also tried to cater to creatives with what it sees as robust performance.

OpenAI has missed its own 2025 deadline on a tool it said would allow photographers to exclude their work from the company's training data.

Meta has deleted some of the AI-generated users created for Facebook and Instagram after a severe backlash over the existence of the accounts.

A trail camera filmed images of the same elusive "fisher" in Pennsylvania -- months after the first sighting of the animal that was believed to be extinct in the state.

A Florida judge allowed a virtual reality (VR) simulation of an alleged crime to be submitted as evidence during a trial -- in what is believed to be a courtroom first.

Amazon Prime has been accused of using an AI-generated background picture for its newly acquired Grand Prix documentary.

Meta plans to fill Facebook and Instagram with AI-generated users that will exist on its platforms similar to real humans.

Meta reportedly plans to add displays to its Ray-Ban smart glasses as early as next year.

Over the weekend, the European Union (EU) implemented a new law that makes the USB-C port mandatory for a range of electronic devices including smartphones.

The parents of Suchir Balaji -- a former OpenAI employee turned whistleblower -- have said they don't believe their son committed suicide.

Recent research has revealed that generative AI and deepfakes barely impacted the 2024 U.S. election as the images are just not good enough yet.