Technology

Google has opened up advanced Gemini features in Google Vids that were previously restricted to paid subscribers and made them free to anyone with a Gmail account.

President Donald Trump is mulling an executive order that would block state laws requiring AI companies to publish transparency reports and disclose how they train models.

Meta has defeated the landmark antitrust case that could have forced it to sell off Instagram and WhatsApp.

Meta is introducing a new tool designed to help Reels creators whose original work is being copied and reused without permission.

'Hot girls' of Instagram have begun a new trend which sees them using AI to add fake animals into their fashion photos.

A Saturday Night Live skit featuring actor Glen Powell has mercilessly mocked AI-edited photographs by playing on the inherent flaws of the technology.

A 21-year-old National Geographic photographer has built an innovative amphibious camera system to capture the rapidly disappearing salt marshes in the U.S.

An Insta360 webcam is helping a man with ALS, a fatal degenerative condition that causes a person's muscles to atrophy, to live a better life and see his children.

An AI-generated image sparked confusion and concern at Bellaire High School in Houston yesterday after a picture falsely showing the school on fire circulated on social media.

Tinder is testing a new AI feature called 'Chemistry', which learns information about a user by analyzing photos from their camera roll. It aims to improve how users connect on the app by offering fewer, more compatible matches.

Samsung is reportedly developing a new image signal processing pipeline, dubbed "Exynos 2600," that could support a single 320-megapixel camera or up to three 108-megapixel image sensors simultaneously.

According to a consistently reliable Apple insider, Apple is preparing to compete in the highly competitive low-cost laptop market by leveraging its iPhone and iPad-oriented A-series chips in a compact notebook.

Despite the controversy surrounding its use of generative AI to create a trio of Christmas advertisements last year, Coca-Cola has once again returned to the world's driest well, churning out yet another terrible AI-generated advertisement.

One of the world's leading photo agencies, Getty, has struck a multi-year agreement with Perplexity to display Getty Images across Perplexity's AI-powered search and discovery tools.

The same week that Nvidia became the world's first $5 trillion company, significantly propelled by its AI-related investments and products, Meta's stock had its worst day in three years because traders fear that Meta has overspent on AI.

Alongside new Sony a1 II and a9 III firmware updates, Sony has bolstered its commitment to content authenticity, extended its verification technology to video content recorded with select Sony cameras. It is the industry's first C2PA-compliant camera-authentication solution for video.

Smartphones have fundamentally changed photography, enabling people with no camera skill to shoot acceptable images. And that is largely down to something called computational photography that smartly manipulates the sensor so that shadows and highlights are visible in the same shot.

Not even four months after American technology company Nvidia rode the AI surge to become the world's first $4 trillion company, it has become the first ever to cross the $5 trillion threshold.

Sigma's full-frame Foveon image sensor project has faced significant challenges, but the company's CEO says it is still working on Foveon image sensor development.

House hunters have begun to notice that real estate listings increasingly contain AI images and are calling them misleading.

Generative AI is coming to Instagram Stories. Users will now be able to edit photos and videos by simply typing in a prompt. For example, in the image above where a group of people have been removed from the background.

Ring's founder, Jamie Siminoff, has returned to the company, determined to "Make neighborhoods safer." To that end, Siminoff thinks that artificial intelligence could help Ring not only achieve its original mission but also eliminate most crime.

A recent survey of 2,000 U.S. adults found 44% of them would consider using an AI headshot, and this is reportedly playing out in real life as professionals increasingly opt for the controversial images for LinkedIn or a CV.

A new scam on TikTok supports the adage: If it's too good to be true, it probably is. Cybercriminals are using TikTok videos to promise free access to otherwise expensive software, including Adobe Photoshop. However, these are fronts to steal user data and take control of people's systems.

Henri Cartier-Bresson’s famous idea of the "decisive moment" has changed with the advent of smartphones. What was once always a physical action to control the camera's shutter can now be achieved by tapping a digital screen or even using voice. A new research paper investigates how the humble shutter button shapes, and is shaped by, photography.

Vacation photos have become a global obsession, and the scramble to capture them is wreaking havoc at major landmarks. Now, a new AI app promises to let travelers skip the crowds entirely -- by never leaving home.

Brian Haidet of the AlphaPhoenix YouTube channel has recorded a laser beam at two billion frames per second (FPS), recording the path of light as it bounces across his garage.

Meta wants access to the photos on Facebook users' smartphone camera rolls. The company's new feature is designed to help people find "shareworthy" photos they haven't yet published, but the privacy concerns are obvious and there are important considerations about how these photos may be used to train AI.

Google has introduced Veo 3.1, the latest version of its AI video generation model, expanding on features first unveiled with Veo 3.

Apple has introduced an updated version of its 14-inch MacBook Pro, now equipped with the new M5 chip. The company says that while the laptop’s design remains unchanged, it gains faster performance, upgraded storage options, and extended battery life -- up to 24 hours on a single charge.

Alongside the new M5 chip, Apple unveiled a powerful new M5-powered iPad Pro. The next-generation iPad Pro sports the same design as last year's redesigned iPad Pro.

Apple has announced the M5, the next-generation Apple Silicon chip. The M5, featured in a new MacBook Pro, iPad Pro, and upgraded Vision Pro headset, promises improved performance across the board thanks to third-generation 3-nanometer technology.

Microsoft AI has unveiled its first text-to-image generator developed entirely in-house, MAI-Image-1. Microsoft AI touts its new model's performance, especially concerning generating photorealistic images.

Late last month, DJI lost its lawsuit against the Pentagon, meaning that the Chinese technology company would remain designated a "Chinese Military Company" in the United States. DJI has officially appealed the decision.

After it was added to Adobe Photoshop, Google's viral Nano Banana AI model has now been included in Search and will soon be coming to Google Photos.

New York City has filed a major lawsuit against Meta, Google, Snapchat, and TikTok, accusing them of contributing to what officials describe as a “youth mental health crisis.”

Anker -- the Chinese company that produces Eufy security cameras -- offered users money in exchange for their videos of package and car thefts, whether real or staged, to train its AI systems.

A trend for AI-generating strangers inside people's homes has prompted cross-border police forces to issue warnings.

Taylor Swift is facing allegations that her team used generative AI in promotional videos for her new album Life of a Showgirl.

The Snappr photography platform is expanding its service into Europe. It already operates in the U.S. and Australia.

At first glance, the 101-megapixel medium-format image sensor in Fujifilm's brand-new GFX Eterna 55 cinema camera looks very much like the sensor featured in the GFX100 II and GFX100S II. However, as Fujifilm details in its latest "GFX Eterna 55 Development Story," the truth is much more complicated than that.

Despite reports of Hollywood agents circling an AI-generated actress by the name of Tilly Norwood horrifying many people, now a respected film producer has announced a feature he says is “the first film directed by a virtual director.”

Instagram has introduced a new award program called Rings, designed to recognize creators who are taking creative risks on the platform. The initiative will honor 25 creators with both a physical gold ring and a digital version displayed as a golden circle around their profile photos and stories.

The University of San Francisco has issued a safety warning following reports of a man using Ray-Ban Meta sunglasses to record women for social media.

Generative AI now makes it possible to breathe new life into still photos -- and in Russia, grieving families are paying $30 for this technology to create ghostly videos of soldiers killed in Ukraine. The process is known as 'digital resurrection.'

Social media has been awash with wild, AI-generated videos the past few days thanks to OpenAI's newly-released Sora 2, which has stormed to the top of the App Store despite being invite only.

Around this time last year, Google quietly added a service to smartphones running Android 9 called Android System Safetycore, which left many confused about what it actually did.