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.
The Brutalist is coming under criticism for employing artificial intelligence to fill in language gaps and generate a series of architectural blueprints.
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.
Last year, Adobe updated its Firefly generative AI platform multiple times, the most recent coming in September. Over that time, the Lightroom and Photoshop tools that rely on the technology have gotten steadily worse and the system's choice to add a Bitcoin logo to a photo of a seagull is a perfect distillation of the problem.
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.
At the end of 2023 it was beginning to look like AI images -- a new and novel way of producing pictures -- were an existential threat to photography. By the end of 2024, that threat had been extinguished somewhat.
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.
