Tourist Mauled by Bear After Rolling Down Car Window to Take Selfie With It
A tourist was mauled by a brown bear after lowering her car window to take a selfie with the animal.
A tourist was mauled by a brown bear after lowering her car window to take a selfie with the animal.
A police tech company that makes body cams and tasers has released a new futuristic product that has some people unnerved: an AI camera that generates police reports from audio.
The Xiaomi 14 Ultra is the clearest indicator yet that Xiaomi wants to be the best in mobile photography, even if some parts of the world don't know it. Anecdotal as it may be, people react with surprise at the images they see captured by the phone when I show them.
Civil War eschews the typical trappings of a combat action movie by turning the lens not toward the soldiers but to the photographers capturing them. And while it excels in some aspects of its portrayal, it falters when it comes to the big stuff.
Cinema company Freefly Systems, best known for its Movi camera stabilization system and high-speed cameras, announced a new Ember S2.5K high-speed camera at NAB 2024. However, something somewhat surprising about the latest camera is that it ditches the E-mount that Freefly has previously used.
Pergear has announced a new 25mm f/1.7 manual focus lens for APS-C and Micro Four Thirds mirrorless cameras. Better still, the lens is only $75 ($69 until May 17), making it one of the most affordable and accessible lenses on the market.
Film studio A24 has been criticized for releasing a series of AI-Generated poster ads for its critically acclaimed movie Civil War.
Relatively unknown general electronics manufacturer Airusan has launched the world's cheapest VPG400 CFexpress Type A memory card. If that sounds too good to be true, that's because it is. The card offers more red flags than gigabytes.
Apple announced its "Let Loose" event coming Tuesday, May 7, with little info accompanying the news. However, iPads and creative production are expected to be a main focus.
This AI-powered device may look like an ordinary Polaroid camera. But instead of capturing images, it uses machine learning to transform photos into poems.
A research paper from Google's DeepMind -- the company's AI research laboratory -- has warned that humans could become too enamored with AI-powered avatars.
NASA has released a fascinating flight map that charts all the Mars avigations taken by the space agency's recently defunct Ingenuity helicopter.
The second generation of IMAX cameras -- which are being built from scratch -- are expected this year with the end goal of making them more user friendly.
At its MAX event in London, Adobe unveiled an all-new beta version of Photoshop built on the advancements made in the Adobe Firefly Image 3 Foundation Model, also revealed today.
At its MAX event in London, Adobe announced a huge update to its artificial intelligence system Firefly. Version 3 of the platform is significantly improved over previous iterations and promises to be able to make photorealistic images with greater variety.
After years of the RF mount remaining "closed," Sigma and Tamron have both finally broken through and will each release lenses for Canon's mirrorless mount.
After announcing the finalists last month, the World Photography Organization has unveiled the winners of the annual Sony World Photography Awards.
Despite the leaps in smartphone camera tech, many remain nostalgic for the analog days. Enter Mood.Camera, the latest app meant to fuse film with phones.
As part of its Earth Day celebrations, the Mall of America in Bloomington, Minnesota, released 144,000 ladybugs into the mall to help keep its 30,000 live plants and trees healthy and happy. Conservation photographer and friend of PetaPixel Devon Matthews was on hand to document the event.
The Haiku Stairs on the Hawaiian island of Oahu are a stunning structure that makes for a captivating photograph subject. Many have taken advantage of the stairs' beauty over the years. However, those photos have long been illegal to capture.
Ulanzi's latest release offers an ingenious design ideal for traveling and hiking photographers or those who like to keep their kit lightweight. The multi-functional design of the Ulanzi TT35 incorporates three hiking poles, a mini tripod, a full-sized travel tripod, and a selfie stick into one product, so each component serves a purpose when out in the field.
Hollyland, a leading provider of wireless audio and video solutions, has announced a new line of video transmitters. The new wireless Pyro Series transmitters promise to be the ideal option for multi-person mobile wireless image transmission and monitoring.
A 31-year-old woman holidaying in Indonesia has died after falling 250 feet into an active volcano.
Canon has made a 19-megapixel full-frame global shutter CMOS image sensor, and it's available now.
Google has an elaborate photo set so it can test its Google Pixel camera in situations akin to the real world.
ProMaster announced the Epoch tripod that it says "takes photography back to its image-making roots" by blending classic performance with "nostalgic" style.
The House of Representatives, led by a Republican majority, passed legislation on Saturday that will ban the popular social media app TikTok in the United States if its Chinese owner does not sell its stake in the next year.
Last Saturday marked 4/20, an international celebration of all things weed, and to mark it Dmitri Tcherbadji of Analog Cafe processed a roll of photo film using cannabis flower in a developer he calls Sativa Cannanol.
A live webcam has been captivating viewers in China by letting them watch and feed stray cats.
In a landmark ruling, a sex offender, who produced over 1,000 indecent images of children, has been banned from using "AI creating tools" in the U.K.
Google has marked Earth Day 2024 today (April 22) with a Doodle of six aerial photographs from around the world that spell out the search engine's name.
Canadian nature photographer Liron Gertsman captured one of the best total solar eclipse photos PetaPixel has ever seen. Gertsman's remarkable wildlife photo, The Frigatebird and the Diamond Ring, was years in the making and the culmination of research, hard work, practice, scouting, and a pinch of luck. After all, while you can control a lot, you can't control the weather.
Roughly 300 species of octopus live in the world's oceans. These creatures embody many traits that people consider particularly human, including remarkable intelligence and rich social lives, while occupying a physical form so different from us that they seem almost alien.
In the early 1990s, a group of scientists had a dream: a new type of telescope that would push astronomy, astrophysics, and imaging technology further than ever before. It would be a device that could see giant swaths of the sky and help unravel the mystery of dark matter. 30 years later, that dream is a reality.
After some teasers on Chinese social media late last year, TTArtisan has released the AF 56mm f/1.8 prime lens for APS-C mirrorless cameras.
Beaverlab Technology, the maker of the Excope DT1 camera currently on Kickstarter, has a response to PetaPixel's exposé, and it is mainly one of contrition.
Stock photo website Depositphotos has launched an AI image generator which it says is commercially safe to use.
Microsoft unveiled a new lip-syncing AI tool that transforms a still image of a person's face into an animated clip of them talking or singing.
Audiio, a leading provider of licensed music for creators, has announced Elements, a new way for people to mix and match components from multiple tracks to create something personal and unique.
Two students died after falling off the edge of a waterfall while taking a selfie at the popular beauty spot.