Technology

A U.S. Air Force employee was arrested for secretly taking photos of children in order to create AI child abuse images.

Nikon’s latest innovation breaks the mold. It’s not a lens you can hold but a new in-vehicle system making its debut inside a truck at the upcoming CES 2025 event in Las Vegas.

Poker players are allegedly using tiny hidden cameras to cheat in high-stakes games.

The LincStudio S1 Tablet from LincPlus Studio S1 may look like a standard run of the mill tablet, but this portable pen display has a bit more hidden up its sleeve. The retouching tool is also a fully functional handheld PC that, while not without its shortcomings, has a surprising amount to offer traveling creatives.

A seven-year-old boy was left seriously injured after drones fell out of the sky during an aerial Christmas show this weekend.

U.K. photographers have rejected a move by the British government that would allow tech companies to train AI tools with their work.

Instagram is rolling out a generative AI editing feature in 2025 that will enable users to “change nearly any aspect of your videos.”

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has issued a month-long ban on flying drones in parts of New Jersey and New York state following the spate of mysterious drone sightings in recent weeks.

After a series of lousy hardware faults, SanDisk's name turned to mud. More than a year later, the company hopes to make people forget with a fresh new logo.

Some Walmart employees are now wearing body cameras in U.S. stores as part of a scheme to help deter conflict and theft.

Instagram is rolling out an end-of-year recap tool that will let users celebrate 2024 with a collage of their favorite photos.

Smartphone users are not impressed with the latest artificial intelligence features on their devices with 73 percent of Apple users and 87 percent of Samsung users unsatisfied, according to a new study.

Ray-Ban's Meta smart glasses have rolled out several new upgrades, including real-time AI video capability, live language translation, and Shazam.

A court has ruled that a man's selfie video -- filmed four days before he was killed in a car crash -- does not count as a will.

Google has rolled out a new AI tool called "Whisk" which lets users drop photos as prompts to create new images.

Two men were arrested for allegedly flying a drone "dangerously close" to a Boston airport this weekend.

Instagram head Adam Mosseri cautioned users against trusting online images, noting that AI is “clearly producing” content that can be easily mistaken for reality.

TikTok lost an emergency bid to pause the law that could lead to its U.S. ban -- meaning that the video app will likely leave the country on January 19 unless a last-ditch Supreme Court appeal can save it.

Hologram hardware and software company Looking Glass, known for its spatial displays, announced new iOS support via Unity integration, enabling users to run real-time 3D media using just an iPhone or iPad, rather than super-powerful dedicated computers.

Instagram is rolling out "trial reels" that will let creators test out new content with users that are not their followers.

Photobucket has been sued for licensing billions of users' photos to train AI systems without their consent.

Removing reflections from photos takes time and effort. Adobe's talented engineers are working to solve the issue once and for all in a single click.

TCL+, a streaming service from television manufacturer TCL, has revealed a series of AI-generated movies that it believes heralds a new era of filmmaking similar to the Golden Age of Hollywood.

Meta must face a lawsuit brought on by defunct animated photography app Phhhoto which accuses Instagram of copying its main feature and driving it out of business.

Apple Intelligence is settling into a semi-regular update schedule. Within iOS 18.2, iPadOS 18.2, and macOS Sequoia 15.2, Apple is bringing a slate of improvements to its AI technology and software platform, including the generative text-to-image tool, Image Playground.

Elon Musk's X has officially rolled out its latest AI image generator model Aurora after it was released and then disappeared last weekend.

Power solutions must be directly relevant to cameras and photography or just downright cool to be covered on PetaPixel. Genki's new Moonbase power strip falls clearly into the latter category, sporting an "out of this world" style and a lot of versatility for tech-savvy users.

A San Francisco startup has plastered the city with controversial billboards urging companies to replace people with "AI employees."

After announcing its new text-to-video AI generator, Sora, back in February, OpenAI has finally released it to the world.

Engineer, builder, and YouTube creator Shane Wighton, known for the YouTube channel Stuff Made Here, has tackled a lot of fascinating engineering questions over the years. The latest is one of the craziest yet. Can a camera see around objects?

Mariah Carey has dismissed claims that she used generative AI to make her Spotify Wrapped video, following accusations from social media users.

Google has introduced a new type of AI-powered weather app capable of predicting the weather earlier than traditional models, which could be handy for photographers.

Researchers have developed an AI model that gives users a "digital mask" to protect them from facial recognition technology.

Scientists have been able to track penguins in Antarctica with the help of smartphone photos taken by tourists.

Amazon has rolled out a new family of "understanding" AI multimodal models that can generate text, image, and video from varying inputs.

A study found that photo filters can make women appear less intelligent to males, while making men seem smarter to women

Researchers have developed an AI system that turns an audio recording into an accurate image of the street that the sound came from.

A website, developed by a former Google employee, shows a user exactly what the tech giant's AI can learn from their photos.

TikTok will ban teenagers from using beauty filters amid concerns about the dangerous impact on younger users' mental health.

A company has developed an AI image-recognition model that can identify a fake designer product from a single photo -- with luxury fashion brand Lacoste becoming its first customer.

Scientists have developed a new AI tool that lets users generate realistic satellite images of future flooding and prepare for approaching storms.

Australia’s House of Representatives passed a landmark bill that would ban children younger than 16 years old from using social media.

A group of peeved artists protesting against "corporate AI overlords" have apparently leaked OpenAI's video generator Sora.

Photographers struggling to find the perfect angle for a group shot have often relied upon clumsy tripods, clunky self-timers, or, worst of all, missing out on being in the frame to take the photo themselves. Enter PhotoBot, a robot photographer who promises to capture a good shot and can take instructions and use a reference photo when finding the ideal composition.

A researcher discovered a ferocious tornado that no one knew about after he spotted a "huge scar" on Google Maps.

Polish billionaire Rafal Brzoska says he has won his court battle against Meta over the use of his image in AI-generated deepfake ads.

A new AI tool will bring old family photos to life by animating the people in them. Allowing users to "relive your favorite memories by turning any photo into a short video clip."

Luma Labs has given its Dream Machine AI video generator a makeover by introducing a new text-to-image foundation model called Photon.

During the tumultuous years of World War II, communication between American soldiers overseas and their loved ones back home was not just a matter of personal comfort but a crucial element in maintaining morale on the front lines.