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Google’s AI can replicate your photos in the style of iconic paintings
There are loads of apps out there that use filters to turn your photos into works of art. You can give your selfie a delicate watercolor feel, for example, or ramp up the colors and composition to create a frenzied portrait of your pet. Now, thanks t...
Twitter will no longer destroy the quality of uploaded JPEGs
Twitter is making some changes to the way it processes image uploads, and photographers on the platform are delighted. According to Twitter engineer Nolan O'Brien, JPEG encoding will now be preserved in images uploaded to Twitter via the web. Previou...
The first ever black hole image lands scientists $3 million prize
The scientists that captured the first image of a black hole are being rewarded with a $3 million prize. The Breakthrough prize, known as the "Oscars of Science," is sponsored by Silicon Valley execs such as Mark Zuckerberg and Sergey Brin, and recog...
Samsung partners with Xiaomi to launch DSLR-like image sensors for smartphones
Samsung is planning to regain its dominance in the camera category for smartphones as it introduced its 108 megapixel Samsung ISOCELL Bright HMX, which the company describes as the first mobile image...
Apple’s big iMovie iOS update includes green screen and more
It looks like Apple is taking the casual filmmaker a little more seriously. Its latest update for iMovie for iOS -- out today -- comes with a new green screen effect, better still image support, 80 new soundtracks, graphic overlays and more.
The Large Magellanic Cloud comes alive in a 240 megapixel image
The Large Magellanic Cloud is what Austin Powers might call a quasi galaxy, just one percent the Milky Way's size and orbiting it like a hanger-on. At a distance of 163,000 light-years from Earth, you might think it would take a space telescope like...
Watch the first ever image of a black hole be livestreamed here
What does a black hole look like? Black, probably. And big. That sounds pretty vague, but as the gravitational forces of a black hole are so strong even light is overpowered by them, we've never had a comprehensive image of one before. Until now. Tod...
New Horizons Image Shows Ultima Thule Looks Like a Snowman
NASA's New Horizons spacecraft opened New Year with historic close flyby of a small Kuiper Belt object. One billion miles beyond Pluto and 4 billion miles from Earth, the object named Ultima Thule is...
New Horizons Image Shows Ultima Thule Looks Like a Snowman
NASA's New Horizons spacecraft opened New Year with historic close flyby of a small Kuiper Belt object. One billion miles beyond Pluto and 4 billion miles from Earth, the object named Ultima Thule is...