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Meta Is Being Incredibly Sketchy About Training Its AI on Your Private Photos

futurism.com Unknown 2025-08-21 00:21:20

Meta is demanding access to all of your photos, even the ones you haven't uploaded anywhere yet — and it's being incredibly shifty about what it intends to do with them. As The Verge reports, the Mark Zuckerberg-owned company refuses to rule out the possibility that it will use your phone's camera roll to train its AI models, and could only provide the assurance that it's not "currently" doing so. If the situation changes in the future, it would be a striking testament to the AI industry's desp

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I Took Photoshop's Generative AI for a Spin. These Are the Tools That Stuck Out

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-08-21 23:00:04

Photoshop is all in on generative AI, and it wants you to give it a whirl, too. Adobe has added a number of AI features to its premiere photo editor over the past few years; if you use Photoshop regularly, you've probably seen these pop up on your task bars. I spend a lot of time reviewing AI image generators and other AI creative software, so I had to put the original photo editor's AI to the test. AI might not be right for every project, especially for professional creators who regularly use

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Home Office Setup Guide (2025): Webcams, Desks, Chairs, and More

wired.com Julian Chokkattu 2025-08-23 00:03:00

No matter if you're working from home full-time or just a few days a week, it's important to carve out a home office setup that separates your work and personal lives. It's equally vital that your workstation is kitted out with the right gear and accessories to make the day more bearable and comfortable. Since 2020, we've been testing standing desks, office chairs, monitors, USB hubs, keyboards, and tons of other work-from-home gear in our own lives. These are our favorites. Updated June 2025:

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Google just gave its Photos app the feature upgrade it deserves - here's what's new

zdnet.com Artie Beaty 2025-08-22 18:30:14

Google / Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNET After hitting pause three weeks ago, Google is resuming rollout of its AI-powered Ask Photos feature. This time around, the company says, things should be better. Last fall, Google slowly began rolling out a new feature that lets you ask queries to find particular pictures in your Photos app. You might ask something like, "Where was that restaurant we ate at in San Francisco?" or "Show me all the selfies I took in NYC museums," and Gemini will find what yo

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I hated Google Photos’ AI search feature, but after the latest update, I love it

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-08-22 14:00:10

Joe Maring / Android Authority At Google I/O 2024, Google introduced the world to “Ask Photos.” It was a new Gemini-powered search experience for Google Photos that would enable you to use natural language to easily find pictures in your library. The pitch sounded great and like a legitimately good use of AI. Unfortunately, Ask Photos’ implementation fell short. I’ve been using Ask Photos for the last several months, and in almost every scenario, it’s been significantly worse than the old sear

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Facebook is starting to feed its AI with private, unpublished photos

news.ycombinator.com Tina Nguyen 2025-08-22 15:08:28

is a senior reporter for The Verge, covering the Trump administration, Elon Musk’s takeover of the federal government, and the tech industry’s embrace of the MAGA movement. For years, Meta trained its AI programs using the billions of public images uploaded by users onto Facebook and Instagram’s servers. Now, it’s also hoping to access the billions of images that users haven’t uploaded to those servers. Meta tells The Verge that it’s not currently training its AI models on those photos, but it

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Facebook is starting to feed its AI with private, unpublished photos

theverge.com Tina Nguyen 2025-08-22 19:30:00

is a senior reporter for The Verge, covering the Trump administration, Elon Musk’s takeover of the federal government, and the tech industry’s embrace of the MAGA movement. For years, Meta’s trained its AI programs using the billions of public images uploaded by users onto Facebook and Instagram’s servers. But apparently, Meta has decided to try training its AI on the billions of images that users haven’t uploaded to those servers. On Friday, TechCrunch reported that Facebook users trying to p

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Glass nanostructures reflect nearly all visible light, challenging assumptions

news.ycombinator.com Singapore University Of Technology 2025-08-19 18:23:48

This article has been reviewed according to Science X's editorial process and policies . Editors have highlighted the following attributes while ensuring the content's credibility: Nanoscale 3D printing of glass. Credit: Science Advances (2025). DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.adv0267 A research team led by SUTD has created nanoscale glass structures with near-perfect reflectance, overturning long-held assumptions about what low-index materials can do in photonics. For decades, glass has been a reliable

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Google Photos won’t downgrade your edited HDR pictures to SDR anymore

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-08-23 07:43:18

Joe Maring / Android Authority TL;DR HDR photos in Google Photos now keep their full dynamic range and HDR metadata when edited with tools like Photo Unblur and Magic Eraser. The app now has an “Ultra HDR” tool for brightening images. SDR photos can now be enhanced to HDR. Google is rolling out some improvements to how high dynamic range (HDR) and standard dynamic range (SDR) images are edited in the Photos app. The update will keep HDR photos from getting downgraded to SDR. Google is also u

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Why is the Rust compiler so slow?

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-08-23 17:29:32

"Why is the Rust compiler so slow?" I spent a month repeatedly building my website in Docker, and now have horrors to share. I've got a problem. My website (the one you're reading right now) is mainly served by a single Rust binary. For far too long now, every time I wanted to make a change, I would: Build a new statically linked binary (with --target=x86_64-unknown-linux-musl ) Copy it to my server Restart the website This is... not ideal. So instead, I'd like to switch to deploying my we

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“Why is the Rust compiler so slow?”

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-08-24 13:29:32

"Why is the Rust compiler so slow?" I spent a month repeatedly building my website in Docker, and now have horrors to share. I've got a problem. My website (the one you're reading right now) is mainly served by a single Rust binary. For far too long now, every time I wanted to make a change, I would: Build a new statically linked binary (with --target=x86_64-unknown-linux-musl ) Copy it to my server Restart the website This is... not ideal. So instead, I'd like to switch to deploying my we

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Google is rolling out its AI-powered ‘Ask Photos’ search again – and it has a speed boost

theverge.com Jay Peters 2025-08-25 03:42:26

is a news editor covering technology, gaming, and more. He joined The Verge in 2019 after nearly two years at Techmeme. After quietly pausing the rollout of Google Photos’ AI-powered “Ask Photos” search tool, Google is now expanding access once again and making some improvements to the feature. Google’s Gemini AI models power Ask Photos so that you can ask complex questions to help you find photos. But earlier this month, a member of the Google Photos team said on X that the feature “isn’t whe

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Google’s new and improved Ask Photos is back on track — and rolling out now!

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-08-25 11:17:12

Google I/O TL;DR Ask Photos is a Google Photos feature designed to answer questions about the contents of your photo library. While announced at Google I/O 2024, access over the past year has been extremely limited. Earlier this month we heard the rollout was paused while Google worked to address a few issues, but today it’s back on track. Over the past couple years, AI has been changing the way we do lots of things, and while there is absolutely no shortage of controversial uses of the tech

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"Why is the Rust compiler so slow?"

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-08-25 14:29:32

"Why is the Rust compiler so slow?" I spent a month repeatedly building my website in Docker, and now have horrors to share. I've got a problem. My website (the one you're reading right now) is mainly served by a single Rust binary. For far too long now, every time I wanted to make a change, I would: Build a new statically linked binary (with --target=x86_64-unknown-linux-musl ) Copy it to my server Restart the website This is... not ideal. So instead, I'd like to switch to deploying my we

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Google tweaked its AI-powered Ask Photos feature and restarted its rollout

engadget.com Unknown 2025-08-25 19:25:05

Google has improved its AI-powered Ask Photos feature and is restarting its rollout to eligible users in the US. The company paused the launch of Ask Photos in early June over issues with latency and the feature's interface. To make Ask Photos speedier, especially on simple searches for dogs or people, Google says its essentially combining the old Google Photos search with Ask Photos. While Google's Gemini models work in the background, the app can now quickly return basic image recognition-bas

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Google Photos merges classic search with AI to speed up results

techcrunch.com Sarah Perez 2025-08-26 03:55:05

After Google temporarily paused the rollout of its buggy AI-powered “Ask Photos” feature in Google Photos, the company announced that it has improved the feature’s ability to quickly return search results. The AI feature, first introduced at Google’s I/O developer conference last year, allows users to search across their collection of digital photos using natural language queries. Leveraging Google’s Gemini, Ask Photos taps into the AI’s ability to understand a photo’s content and its other met

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I built an app to backup Live Photos from iPhone to external hard drives

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-08-25 22:36:13

I noticed so many iPhone users are dealing with the same storage nightmare. Here's a common scenario that sounds familiar to a lot of people: The widespread problem: iPhone storage fills up crazy fast, not everyone has a Mac, many don't want to pay monthly for iCloud storage, and home NAS setups aren't realistic for most users. The manual approach of creating folders and selecting photos one by one is tedious, and keeping up with new photos becomes overwhelming So I built an app called BackiGo

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Here’s your first look at Google Photos’ Remix video feature for photo animations (APK teardown)

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-08-28 23:05:38

Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority TL;DR Google Photos is working on a new Remix video that could generate videos from still images. The feature includes customizable movement styles like “Subtle Movements,” “Go Wild,” and “I’m Feeling Lucky.” Remix and Remix video features are still a work-in-progress and haven’t been announced yet. We’ve previously spotted Google Photos working to incorporate generative AI to transform photos with the upcoming Remix feature. Last week, we also found code

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Google Photos could soon suggest photos you may want to delete (APK teardown)

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-08-29 03:39:40

Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority TL;DR Google Photos may soon offer suggestions to help users clean up storage by deleting unnecessary photos. These suggestions will appear after users delete multiple photos. The feature will likely be optional, and the app could receive a corresponding setting to turn it off. Google Photos already offers a convenient way for users to free up storage space on their devices through the “Manage storage” option. It lists photos and videos with large file siz

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Google Earth just made time travel easier - here's how to visit the old neighborhood

zdnet.com Artie Beaty 2025-08-30 19:51:39

Busà Photography/Getty Last fall, a little-known Google Maps feature went viral for letting users get a glimpse of lost loved ones, old family pets, childhood homes, and even their younger selves. Those memories are getting a little easier to relive, as Google is bringing its historical Street View images to Google Earth. Also: This hidden Google Earth slider lets you travel up to 80 years back in time. Here's how to try it To celebrate 20 years of Google Earth, Google introduced a new way

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Adobe gives the iPhone photo app a glow-up with SLR power - for free

zdnet.com Lance Whitney 2025-09-02 15:46:03

Adobe / Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNET Snapping photos through your mobile phone is certainly convenient. But it's not necessarily the best option, especially if you're looking to capture high-quality images. Also: Adobe Firefly app is finally launching to users. Here's how to access (and the perks) Now, Adobe has released a new camera app that aims to address some of the limitations of mobile photography. Possible Camera app replacement Available now in the App Store, the free Project Indigo

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Adobe brings pro-level computational photography to iPhone users with Indigo

techspot.com Skye Jacobs 2025-09-04 11:29:00

What just happened? Adobe has introduced Indigo, a new computational photography app for iPhone that aims to bring pro-grade image processing to everyday users. Developed by a team led by Marc Levoy, a pioneer in computational photography, Indigo is designed to push the boundaries of what smartphone cameras can achieve by leveraging advanced algorithms and years of research. Indigo distinguishes itself through its unique approach to image capture and processing. Unlike most camera apps that rel

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Finding Recently Saved Photos on My iPhone Is Much Easier With This One Change

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-09-05 08:00:07

Apple announced at its Worldwide Developers Conference on June 9 that the next version of the iPhone's operating system will be called iOS 26, and it will bring a lot of new features to your iPhone in the fall, like a transparent glass design on icons and menus and redesigned interfaces for the Camera and Photos apps. But when Apple released iOS 18 in September, it brought a simple change to Photos to make it easy to find recently saved photos, no matter when they were taken. The change sorts yo

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Adobe launches a new ‘computational photography’ camera app for iPhones

theverge.com Jay Peters 2025-09-06 03:45:05

is a news editor covering technology, gaming, and more. He joined The Verge in 2019 after nearly two years at Techmeme. Adobe has a new computational photography camera app for iPhones – and one of its creators, Marc Levoy, helped make the impressive computational photography features that made some of Google’s earlier Pixel cameras shine. The new app, called Project Indigo, was released last week by Adobe Labs. It’s free and available for the iPhone 12 Pro and Pro Max, iPhone 13 Pro and Pro M

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Google Photos’ upcoming Remix feature could launch with a video upgrade (APK teardown)

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-09-06 19:24:20

Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority TL;DR Google Photos’ upcoming Remix feature, internally codenamed “Bluejay,” will likely support video editing. When it launches, the feature will use generative AI to transform videos into various styles, with options potentially including “I’m feeling lucky,” “Subtle movements,” and “Go wild.” Creating AI photos and videos is all the rage these days, but many people are using AI to remix their existing photos and videos. For instance, the Studio Ghibli tr

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The best graphic design software of 2025: Feature-packed, professional tools

zdnet.com Charlie Osborne 2025-09-08 23:34:42

Whether you're a student just starting your graphic design journey or you're a seasoned professional, you won't get far without the right tools. We've moved on from the early days of classic Adobe Photoshop and Corel, and while these software suites are now modern and valuable in their own right, there is a multitude of graphic design packages out there for you to choose from. Windows, Mac, tablets, or even smartphones -- no matter the device, there's software out there for you. Some are focus

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Finding the right editing tool in Google Photos is about to get easier (APK teardown)

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-09-09 21:30:07

Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority TL;DR An Android Authority teardown has revealed that the Google Photos app is getting a search button for editing tools. This will allow you to type the name of an editing tool or option to quickly access it. This search option would save time compared to manually sifting through menus to find the correct tool. We just discovered that Google Photos will get its biggest redesign in years, featuring a Material 3 Expressive visual style and functional upgrad

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First look at the biggest Google Photos editor update in years (APK teardown)

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-09-10 00:03:06

TL;DR Google Photos is getting a completely revamped editor, with reorganized sections that make the editing flow much more intuitive. Google previously gave us a glimpse of the new design, but we’ve managed to dive deeper and unlock the new UI and all the functional changes. The new tool search option is perhaps one of the best new features of the new Google Photos editor. A big update is coming to Google Photos, and it’s more than just a fresh coat of paint. Google is set to roll out one of

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The best instant cameras you can buy right now

theverge.com Sheena Vasani 2025-09-10 03:30:00

Even with the ability to take excellent photos with our phones and instantly share them across the world, there’s something magical about the old-school instant camera. With just a click of a button, you can capture a moment in a photo that you can see and touch almost immediately. Images captured by an instant camera aren’t as pristine or perfect as those produced by modern digital cameras, but their soft images and imperfections are often a big part of the allure. Yet not all instant cameras

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This Kodak Instant Photo Printer with 90 Sheets Is Suddenly Cheap, Amazon Is Clearing Stock Before Prime Day

gizmodo.com Gizmodo Deals 2025-09-13 15:25:49

Kodak is a photography legend, a firm that at one point struggled to re-invent itself but that has been launching a run of very useful products in the past few years. For example, there’s a popular instant photo dock (called Kodak Dock Era Plus) which can print photos in seconds from your phone… and it is currently on sale at Amazon with a 90-sheet pack for an all-time low price of $139, down from $199. See at Amazon Charge Your Phone and Print The Kodak Dock Era Plus is easy to use and very

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