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Woman takes 50,000 photos and makes AI program to monitor cat’s poop
Aug 31, 2022
Alex Baker
What lengths would you go to for your pet? One woman went the extra mile (or twenty) to ensure her kitty was healthy by creating…
Not surprisingly, those “30 terabyte” SSDs you can buy at Walmart and AliExpress are all a scam
Aug 30, 2022
John Aldred
It’s probably not that much of a surprise to most of us who actually use large storage drives but there seems to be a big…
Vero: the Instagram alternative that photographers are flocking to
Aug 29, 2022
Alex Baker
Still photographers are officially fed up with Instagram. Every new feature that Meta introduces seems to take the app further and further away from its…
No more crash landings: Now your drone can land on a steep slope
Aug 29, 2022
Alex Baker
Researchers have developed a new landing system that allows drones to land in rough conditions, even on surfaces sloped as steep as 60 degrees. That’s…
Report: Canon orders Viltrox (and possibly others) to stop selling RF mount lenses
Aug 29, 2022
John Aldred
If you wondered why major third party lens manufacturers like Sigma and Tamron hadn’t released any RF mount lenses yet, this might explain it. It…
EyeEm stops paying photographers, blames it on “global events” and “company restructuring”
Aug 29, 2022
Dunja Đuđić Kalinin
If you sell your photos through EyeEm, you may be experiencing the problem none of us likes to deal with: you’re not being paid. According…
Why AI is a threat to the photography industry
Aug 28, 2022
Alex Baker
“Can a robot write a symphony? Can a robot turn a canvas into a beautiful masterpiece?” So asks Will Smith in the 2004 movie iRobot….
Nigeria becomes first country to ban foreign models in advertisements
Aug 28, 2022
Alex Baker
Nigeria’s advertising regulator has announced a ban on using foreign talent in television advertisements. The first-of-its-kind move means that foreign models and voice-over artists will…
This LEGO camera is a fully functional pinhole camera and shoots with real 35mm film
Aug 26, 2022
John Aldred
There isn’t much of a shortage of LEGO cameras. We’ve covered a bunch on here before that either look like real cameras, such as Nikon,…
Google flags medical photos of children as “sexual abuse,” sending parents under police investigation
Aug 24, 2022
Dunja Đuđić Kalinin
Two fathers from two US states recently went under police investigation over “sexual abuse.” The reason: Google Photos’ algorithm flagged photos of their children, closed…