A North Carolina woman is suing members of the North Carolina State Board of Elections concerning the state's laws banning photos of official ballots, including "ballot selfies."
Film equipment maker Negative Supply has been in hot water with Kickstarter backers as its LM1 light meter project reaches its third year without units officially going into production. The company's CEO, AJ Holmes, has assured DPReview that the company is "almost there" and is trying to get a small batch of units out of the door... more
A photographer has received a $100,000 payout from the city of Des Moines, Iowa after a police officer tacked and arrested him during a George Floyd protest in the summer of 2020.
Since digital image editing tools like Adobe Photoshop hit the scene in the late 1980s, there have been heightened concerns about whether photos can be trusted. This long-time worry has become an increasingly common refrain among artificial intelligence's most ardent defenders, but it doesn't serve as a sound defense against criticisms of AI.... more
The digital camera industry has endured a lot of changes over the years and is currently at the tail of a huge collapse that is tied directly to the proliferation of smartphones. A new chart that uses data from camera shipments shows just how stark the difference has been between the highs and lows over the last 70 years.
Although Adobe routinely releases new artificial intelligence features in its software, the company's research division is always working hard on technological breakthroughs, long before related features make it into consumer-facing software. Adobe Research's latest creation is Magic Fixup, which automates complex image editing tasks... more
Last week's "Team Pixel" situation highlighted a widespread issue in the technology space that negatively impacts many reviewers and the people who watch their content.
There is a widely held belief that AI images pose a danger to society. The technology is able to create fake images that can pass as genuine creating opportunities for bad actors to spread misinformation.
