A look at life inside Facebook's headquarters in Menlo Park, California.
Think a regular New Year’s Eve hangover is bad? Imagine how you’ll feel waking up with a splitting headache only to discover you’ve lost your phone and there are 29 comments under a photo of you spraying cheap champagne while singing ABBA’s “Dancing Queen.” Save yourself the trouble by taking a few tech-savvy precautions before heading out on Saturday night.
The new “Find My Face” feature on Google+ uses facial recognition software to scan for your distinctive mug and then prompt the uploader to tag you. Luckily, it looks like Google+ is staying true to its modest goal of not being as bad as Facebook when it comes to your privacy.
Summer’s over. You have a lot of happy memories, and many of them are stored digitally as photographs. Organizing those pictures will help you find the ones you want quickly and easily.
It’s hard to believe that Instagram launched only about a year ago. In a mere three months it accumulated its first million users, and now supports over eight million pocket photographers.
It’s one of those shots that makes you go “holy word-I-can’t-say-here”: A space shuttle hanging from the International Space Station like a bird caught midflight, or a high diver reaching around about to leap backwards off a diving board. It’s also the first photograph of a shuttle—the very vehicle that helped assemble the space station [...]
I know the future is upon us, but there’s still something about facial recognition that creeps me out. Especially when it suggests those not-so-flattering photos of me accurately…
Clap if you like, or just shrug if you don’t care: Twitter’s finally going to let you upload and share photos directly, through its website. The takeaway: No more Yfrog or TwitPic or Twitgoo for you.
Is Apple planning some sort of social photo sharing application in the next version of iOS?
CNN’s Mark Milian published an article yesterday concerning a facial recognition feature that Google’s been working on. You’d be able to use such a feature to take a photo of someone and, if that person allowed it, receive relevant information about him or her. The piece reads very much like an interview with the app’s [...]
Photo site Flickr has just updated its sharing options, making it easier to post photos to other online services.
