Following a 404 Media investigation into apps that advertised that they could generate non-consensual nude images, Apple has begun removing AI image-generation apps from its App Store. ]
https://petapixel.com/2024/04/26/apple-battles-ai-deepfake-apps-but-the-war-looks-unwinnable/
Members of the U.S. Government may push forward with a bill that aims to ban DJI's drones and prevent them from operating at all within the country. ]
iFootage announced the Cobra 3 Strike monopod that tries to improve on the company's already great monopod series by adding the ability to extend and retract it one-handed. ]
https://petapixel.com/2024/04/26/the-ifootage-cobra-3-strike-monopod-tries-to-improve-on-greatness/
A photo taken by the European Space Agency's Mars Express orbiter has set the internet alight after it apparently shows large clusters of black spiders crawling on the surface of the Red Plan...
https://petapixel.com/2024/04/26/satellite-photo-shows-an-army-of-black-spiders-on-mars/
Camera sales have been on the up for several years now but that was mostly in contrast to how poorly the industry fared during the height of the pandemic. But this time, a research firm in Ja...
https://petapixel.com/2024/04/26/camera-sales-grew-for-first-time-in-13-years-but-not-for-canon/
A photographer waited three years to capture these epic shots of the northern lights above an erupting volcano. ]
https://petapixel.com/2024/04/26/photographer-captures-northern-lights-over-an-erupting-volcano/
Boris Elgadsen, the man who was awarded first place for an AI image at the Sony World Photography Awards last year, is selling The Electrician for $21,500 (€20,000). ]
https://petapixel.com/2024/04/26/ai-image-that-won-sony-world-photo-award-is-being-sold-for-21000/
A new documentary, that is executive-produced by Wes Anderson, explores the life and work of American photographer James Hamilton. ]
https://petapixel.com/2024/04/26/wes-anderson-produces-documentary-on-photographer-james-hamilton/
A woman was scammed of $50,000 by a deepfake Elon Musk who sent her AI-generated photos and told her he loved her over a deepfake video call. ]
https://petapixel.com/2024/04/26/a-woman-lost-50000-to-a-deepfake-elon-musk-in-ai-romance-scam/
AI technology can predict a person's political views from a single photograph of them, according to a recent study. ]
https://petapixel.com/2024/04/26/study-says-ai-can-predict-a-persons-political-views-from-a-selfie/
Photojournalist Gabriele Micalizzi's first exhibition is now open in Milan, Italy, at the renowned 29 Arts in Progress gallery. ]
The Ray-Ban Meta Smart Glasses II, which Chris Niccolls described as impressive but ultimately a "luxury solution in search of a problem" in his review for PetaPixel, look to have found a pro...
This week, director Steven Soderbergh took part in an interview where he discussed the making of Presence, in which he revealed it was filmed on a Sony a9 III... which he gleefully referred t...
https://petapixel.com/2024/04/25/should-we-just-use-dslr-to-describe-big-cameras-mirror-or-not/
Alongside its new 27mm f/2.8 lens for APS-C E-mount cameras, 7Artisans has released its affordable 50mm f/1.8 prime lens for Nikon Z mount. ]
While it would prefer that filmmakers remember the advantages of RF-mount, speaking exclusively to PetaPixel, Canon is looking on the bright side of Nikon's acquisition of RED Cinema, ]
Renowned photographer Annie Leibovitz is selling her 65-acre California farm estate just five years after she purchased the property. ]
Adobe has previewed a new generative AI upscaler called VideoGigaGAN that is capable of upscaling low-resolution and blurry videos up to eight times. ]
https://petapixel.com/2024/04/25/adobe-reveal-ai-upscaler-that-can-improve-video-resolution-by-8x/
The internet is being overrun by fake and bogus AI imagery and text. The question is, what are we going to do about it? The internet has always had a problem with misinformation, but that pro...
https://petapixel.com/2024/04/25/ai-is-corrupting-the-internet-as-we-know-it/
Viltrox announced a 40mm f/2.5 lens for full-frame Nikon Z-mount cameras that is super affordable, compact, and promises precise, accurate autofocus performance. ]
7Artisans has announced a 27mm f/2.8 STM autofocus lens for APS-C Sony E-mount cameras, like the a6400, a6700, and vlog-centric ZV-E10. 7Artisans only just recently began making autofocus-equ...
https://petapixel.com/2024/04/25/7artisans-launches-129-27mm-f-2-8-prime-for-sony-aps-c-cameras/