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Google will upgrade its revenge porn defenses with help from a UK nonprofit

engadget.com Unknown 2025-09-20 21:10:16

Google is partnering with a UK nonprofit to fight non-consensual intimate imagery (NCII). (You may know it better as revenge porn.) Over the coming months, the company will begin using StopNCII's hashes. These user-uploaded digital fingerprints can block individuals' unwanted intimate content from appearing in search results. StopNCII has a pretty neat system to combat revenge porn. Say you have some images you most definitely don't want surfacing online. Select the picture on your device, and

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Apple Photos app corrupts images

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-21 00:07:44

The Apple Photos app sometimes corrupts images when importing from my camera. I just wanted to make a blog post about it in case anyone else runs into the problem. I’ve seen other references to this online, but most of the people gave up trying to fix it, and none of them went as far as I did to debug the issue. I’ll try to describe the problem, and the things I’ve tried to do to fix it. But also note that I’ve (sort of) given up on the Photos app too. Since I can’t trust it to import photos fr

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Wallpaper Wednesday: More great phone wallpapers for all to share (September 17)

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-09-22 02:30:18

C. Scott Brown / Android Authority Welcome to Wallpaper Wednesday! In this weekly roundup, we’ll give you a handful of Android wallpapers you can download and use on your phone, tablet, or even your laptop/PC. The images will come from folks here at Android Authority as well as our readers. All are free to use and come without watermarks. File formats are JPG and PNG, and we’ll provide images in both landscape and portrait modes, so they’ll be optimized for various screens. For the newest wall

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Apple Photos App Corrupts Images

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-22 11:07:44

The Apple Photos app sometimes corrupts images when importing from my camera. I just wanted to make a blog post about it in case anyone else runs into the problem. I’ve seen other references to this online, but most of the people gave up trying to fix it, and none of them went as far as I did to debug the issue. I’ll try to describe the problem, and the things I’ve tried to do to fix it. But also note that I’ve (sort of) given up on the Photos app too. Since I can’t trust it to import photos fr

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Google’s latest Play System Update makes it easier to find and share photos on Android

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-09-23 10:08:30

Mishaal Rahman / Android Authority TL;DR Google is rolling out an updated Photo Picker with a much-needed search bar, making it easier to find specific photos and videos to share with apps. The new search functionality works for local media and integrates with Google Photos to search your cloud library and offer suggestions for people or places. The “Albums” tab is also being renamed to “Collections” and now groups folders to better organize your media and separate personal albums from app-ge

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Did Google fix the Pixel 9’s lifeless photo colors on the Pixel 10? I’m shocked.

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-09-25 07:00:51

Rita El Khoury / Android Authority What Google did to photo colors on its last few Pixel phones is criminal. There is no other way to say this, but the degradation in color quality and science was so palpable since the Pixel 6, culminating in the washed-out photos of the Pixel 9 Pro. Even me, a staunch Pixel camera fan, had somewhat given up on getting good, lively photos from my phone last year. Every time I snapped a picture, especially in a colorful environment or a warm indoor, the result c

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How CNET Editors Save Money With Cheap Smart Gadgets in Their Own Homes

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-09-27 03:00:00

CNET staff -- not advertisers, partners or business interests -- determine how we review products and services. If you buy through our links, we may earn a commission. If you're shopping for an energy-saving gadget such as a smart plug or want the added capabilities of a smart display, you probably want to snag one while still saving money. Paying hundreds for a single home device is a lot to ask. The good news? Smart tech like this can still be very cheap. That’s why my fellow CNET editors an

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The Value of Bringing a Telephoto Lens

news.ycombinator.com Avid Andrew 2025-09-22 19:08:33

They usually aren't light, and they certainly aren't small, but the unique perspective a telephoto lens brings makes it an indispensable part of your kit, even when traveling. Let's review some shots taken with a telephoto to see how we can justify its size and weight. Avoiding Distractions In some cases, distracting buildings or people may be unavoidable. However, a telephoto can help eliminate those distractions and bring your subject, in this case the clouds and mountains, front-and-center:

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iPhone Air offers a new feature never seen in a single-camera iPhone

9to5mac.com Dylan Mcdonald 2025-09-26 22:28:55

Apple has been including Portrait Mode on iPhone models with only one back camera since the iPhone XR, but the iPhone Air is the first one to get a fully-featured Portrait Mode. A brief history When Apple introduced the iPhone XR, one of the headlining features was how it could take “dramatic portraits using a single camera lens”. However, these portraits were limited to just people and pets. So, if you wanted to take a portrait photo of something like a flower, you could not. Similarly, the

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Google Photos could finally fix its annoying search limitation on shared photos (APK teardown)

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-09-28 14:15:43

Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority TL;DR Google Photos is testing a new search feature that will allow users to search for content in shared albums without saving the photos. We’ve spotted a filter to include and exclude shared photos in the search results Currently, users have to save shared photos to their accounts before they can be searched. Google Photos is great for photo editing and media management, but it’s also pretty good for sharing photos with others. There is one caveat, thoug

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Google Photos could soon get its best looking Material 3 Expressive changes to date (APK teardown)

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-09-28 18:49:28

Jimmy Westenberg / Android Authority TL;DR Google Photos is getting the new album cover design that aligns with Material 3 Expressive. The redesign enhances album cover visibility and makes the title more prominent with a larger font. We’re also seeing changes to the menu options for albums In recent months, we have seen several signs of Google’s latest Material 3 Expressive design philosophy scattered around the Photos app. These instances include a refreshed homepage, new icons and progres

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Prongs rock

theverge.com Sean Hollister 2025-09-28 16:00:00

is a senior editor and founding member of The Verge who covers gadgets, games, and toys. He spent 15 years editing the likes of CNET, Gizmodo, and Engadget. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Here’s a hot take: gaming handhelds are better with prongs. How do I know? I hold a lot of handhelds (and gamepads) here at The Verge, but Microsoft and Asus’s upcoming Xbox Ally X might take the cake for the most comfortable to hold. And that handheld

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5 Meta Ray-Ban upgrades that have me truly hyped for September 17

zdnet.com Jason Hiner 2025-09-29 21:43:45

Jason Hiner/ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. The hype continues to build around the arrival of Meta's futuristic Hypernova (a.k.a. Celeste) smart glasses, which will reportedly add a small heads-up display in one eye and a neural wristband (Ceres) to control the interface. These will reportedly cost around $800 and will be announced at Meta Connect on September 17. Analyst Ming-Chi Kuo has stated that Meta is preparing to sell 150,00-200,000 units of its Hypernova gl

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This small Android flagship could put the iPhone 17’s dual cameras to shame

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-10-01 02:46:11

Hadlee Simons / Android Authority TL;DR A Vivo representative has revealed details of the upcoming X300 series. The Vivo X300 is confirmed to be smaller than last year, with the same dimensions as the Vivo X200 Pro Mini. The Vivo X300 is expected to feature a 50MP telephoto camera with an apochromatic filter, while the Pro model will utilize a 200MP sensor. The news about Samsung’s expected rejig of the S series with the upcoming Galaxy S26 is already influencing manufacturing decisions in C

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iOS 26 will give iPhone 16 owners a new camera capability

9to5mac.com Ryan Christoffel 2025-10-03 02:33:40

Yesterday during its iPhone 17 introduction, Apple showed off a brand new ‘Bright’ Photographic Style for users. But it turns out, iOS 26 brings the same new feature to certain iPhone 16 models too. New ‘Bright’ Photographic Style is coming to iPhone 16 One of the tentpole features of the iPhone 16 last year was next-generation Photographic Styles. Photographic Styles might seem like just a marketing term for filters. But Apple’s latest version that launched on iPhone 16 is technically quite

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The iPhone 17 camera looks completely outdated next to 2025’s Android phones

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-10-03 10:30:54

Apple has just launched the iPhone 17 series, and there are quite a few camera changes this time. We’ve got a square selfie camera sensor that enables portrait or landscape shots without rotating the phone, a 48MP 4x camera for the Pro phones, and a 48MP ultrawide camera for the standard model. Unfortunately, one thing you won’t find on the standard Phone 17 is a telephoto camera. Apple has decided to skip this option yet again, and this is a frankly embarrassing decision in 2025. What do you

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The best stuff announced at IFA

theverge.com Andrew Liszewski 2025-10-07 06:14:01

The doors to IFA 2025 in Berlin, Germany, have officially opened and new gadgets, tech, features, and upgrades continue to pour out of Europe’s largest consumer tech show. There’s a lot of news to stay on top of, and if you’re struggling to ingest it all, here are some of the best announcements from the show so far, including innovative new robovacs, more affordable smart home devices, and even a portable home theater on wheels. You can catch up on all of The Verge’s IFA 2025 coverage right her

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You can finally remove fences in Google Photos, and the results are crazy

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-10-10 09:16:20

Rita El Khoury / Android Authority At Google I/O 2017, Google showed what quickly became one of its most infamous product teases in history: removing a chain link fence from a picture of a child playing baseball. The pitch was that we would soon be able to remove pesky fences automatically from our pictures with the help of computer vision, and it looked like magic. While Google Photos would eventually get object removal for more obvious photo distractions like garbage cans and photo-bombers,

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Google's new Androidify app turns you into an adorable green robot - try it for free

zdnet.com Artie Beaty 2025-10-11 02:26:00

Androidify / ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways The Androidify app lets you customize your own Android bot. You can use a photo or enter a text prompt. There's an app and a browser version of the tool. If you're an Android die-hard, Google is giving you a fun new way to express your fandom. For more than 15 years, a small green robot (a.k.a. Bugdroid) has been the official mascot of the Android operating system. Several versions of the mascot

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Google’s Veo 3 lands in Photos, and you don’t need a $250 plan to try it

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-10-11 06:00:46

Mishaal Rahman / Android Authority TL;DR Google Photos is upgrading its image-to-video tool with the Veo 3 AI model. The update creates four-second, silent clips with free but limited use for most subscribers. AI Pro and AI Ultra users get more generations. Google Photos has been making moves to make your snapshots feel more alive, and the tech giant is about to take things one step further. The app’s image-to-video feature is getting an upgrade powered by Google’s latest AI video model, Veo

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Google's new Androidify app turns you into an adorable Android bot - try it for free

zdnet.com Artie Beaty 2025-10-11 06:15:43

Androidify / ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways The Androidify app lets you customize your own Android bot. You can use a photo or enter a text prompt. There's an app and a browser version of the tool. If you're an Android die-hard, Google is giving you a fun new way to express your fandom. For more than 15 years, a small green robot (a.k.a. Bugdroid) has been the official mascot of the Android operating system. Several versions of the mascot

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Google Photos gets Veo 3 integration, bringing in even more AI tools

engadget.com Unknown 2025-10-11 18:00:42

The video-generation model Veo 3 has come to Google Photos, bringing even more AI tomfoolery to the platform. This allows users to do all sorts of wacky things. First and foremost, the pre-existing photo to video feature has been significantly improved. Google says that it can now be used to turn "still images into even higher-quality clips." There's also a tool called Remix that transforms photos into various styles, like anime drawings, comic book illustrations, 3D animations and more. This i

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Google Photos upgrades its image-to-video feature with Veo 3

techcrunch.com Sarah Perez 2025-10-11 18:00:00

Google’s latest video-generation model, Veo 3, is coming to Google Photos. The new model, available on the mobile app’s Create tab, will allow users in the U.S. to turn their still images into video clips. Google Photos already offers video generation through its recently added “Photo to video” feature, but the company says the addition of Veo 3 enhances that functionality with higher-quality video. The launch also represents how the company is working to bring its latest AI tech to consumers t

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I Let the Pixel 10's AI Camera Coach Tell Me How to Take Photos and Here Are the Results

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-12 19:00:10

If you look through the camera roll on your phone, what kind of photos do you find? I see images of my friends, my pets, the odd receipt for a work expense and snapshots of coffee -- hey, I was a barista for 11 years! Not every photo is meant to rival an Ansel Adams masterpiece. (Though I'm sure if he had a smartphone, he'd also take a pic of his parking space to remember where he parked his car.) If you want to take better photos with your phone, Google has added a new tool to the Pixel 10 cam

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Wallpaper Wednesday: More great phone wallpapers for all to share (September 3)

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-10-14 18:30:27

C. Scott Brown / Android Authority Welcome to Wallpaper Wednesday! In this weekly roundup, we’ll give you a handful of Android wallpapers you can download and use on your phone, tablet, or even your laptop/PC. The images will come from folks here at Android Authority as well as our readers. All are free to use and come without watermarks. File formats are JPG and PNG, and we’ll provide images in both landscape and portrait modes, so they’ll be optimized for various screens. For the newest wall

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Why are online puzzle games having a moment?

theverge.com Allison Johnson 2025-10-16 14:30:00

is a senior reviewer with over a decade of experience writing about consumer tech. She has a special interest in mobile photography and telecom. Previously, she worked at DPReview. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Hooked on LinkedIn’s Queens? Gotta extend your Wordle streak in the New York Times games app before you start your day? You’re in good company on today’s Vergecast episode. Allison Johnson is joined by Simon Anthony and Mark Good

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The 71 best Labor Day deals you can still get

theverge.com Brandt Ranj 2025-10-16 18:49:03

If you have a smaller space, a singlemay be sufficient, and you can pick one up for $74.99 ($15 off) — which is lower than its Prime Day price — at Amazon B&H Photo , and Best Buy . The router can create a network covering up to 1,500 square feet, connect to 75 devices at once, and deliver speeds of up to 900Mbps. If you move to a larger place, you can pick up an additional router (or two) to expand your network. A bundle that includes one router and two extenders is currently going for $159.99

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5 Meta Ray-Ban upgrades that have me seriously excited for September 17

zdnet.com Jason Hiner 2025-10-17 01:35:00

Jason Hiner/ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. The hype continues to build around the arrival of Meta's futuristic Hypernova (a.k.a. Celeste) smart glasses, which will reportedly add a small heads-up display in one eye and a neural wristband (Ceres) to control the interface. These will reportedly cost around $800 and will be announced at Meta Connect on September 17. Analyst Ming-Chi Kuo has stated that Meta is preparing to sell 150,00-200,000 units of its Hypernova gl

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It’s surprisingly easy to remove Google’s digital AI watermark on the Pixel 10

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-10-14 16:30:31

Rita El Khoury / Android Authority Like the Samsung Galaxy S25, Google’s new Pixel 10 series is adopting C2PA metadata for digital media authenticity. Anytime the phones take a photo or edit it, they embed a watermark in the final image that traces its origin and any changes made to it. Google, like Samsung, is following this standard to help combat all inevitable confusion around an image’s provenance and veracity on the internet. Is this photo real or AI? Or is it real with AI embellishments?

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F1 in Hungary: Strategy and fast tire changes make all the difference

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-14 00:37:13

Formula 1 teams can start their annual summer break today. Sometime this month, each of the 10 teams has to close its factory for 14 consecutive days. Laptops stay in the office, email goes unchecked. It all sounds very civilized for a sport where the difference between hero and zero can come down to milliseconds. As was the case at this past weekend's Hungarian Grand Prix, at least in qualifying. When the Hungaroring was added to the calendar back in 1986, it was F1's first true foray behind t

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You can finally remove fences in Google Photos, and the results are crazy

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