Technology

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Content creators are having an unexpected boon: artificial intelligence companies are buying their unpublished videos for training purposes.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

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.