Hey, remember when Facebook bought Instagram for $1 billion? Well apparently buying the number one mobile photo app on the market isn't stopping the freshly IPO-ed Facebook team from releasing a similar app of its own.
Flickr has been taking steps toward becoming relevant again. First it was a site redesign and now it’s upgrading its uploading tool using some HTML5 magic, letting you drag-and-drop photos into your browser to upload them.
The wait is over. Instagram has finally released an app for Android, available right this second on Google Play.
Facebook’s photo viewer is getting a big update. Starting today, it will automatically display photos in the highest resolution possible, which on large monitors could mean images up to four times larger than before.
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…
