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Activists respond to Apple choosing encryption over invasive image scanning plans Mitchell Clark / Apple’s proposed photo-scanning measures were controversial — have either side’s opinions changed with Apple’s plans? Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge When Apple introduced its slate of initiatives to prevent the spread of child sexual abuse material, or CSAM, last…
Google’s putting its Lens image search right on its home page Mitchell Clark / You can use its advanced image recognition and searching tech right from the search box. Google Lens is now built into its search bar. Google has been integrating its Lens image recognition tech into several of its products for quite a…
How to create image cutouts in iOS 16 Allison Johnson / Cut photos of people, pets, and objects out from their background with a couple of easy steps — thanks to a new feature in iOS 16 Cut out your pet and paste it into the group chat.Illustration by Samar Haddad / The Verge While…
This Sticker Looks Inside the Body Sophie Bushwick Ultrasound scanners, which image the inside of the human body, are a life-saving medical tool. Now researchers have shrunk the handheld ultrasound probe—which typically requires a highly trained technician to move over the skin—down to a flat chip that is the size of a postage stamp and…
Major African Radio Telescope Will Help to Image Black Holes Sarah Wild, Nature Astronomers across Africa and Europe have reacted with delight to news that Africa’s first millimetre-range radio telescope is to be built. The Africa Millimetre Telescope will fill a gap in the coverage of the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT), a global…
Twitter mistakenly suspended users after extremists abused its private image policy | Engadget Jon Fingas If you were worried people might abuse Twitter’s new policy banning non-consensual image sharing, your fears were well-founded. The social network told The Washington Post it suspended the accounts of 12 journalists and anti-extremism researchers by mistake after far-right activists…
Instagram now lets you delete an image from a carousel | Engadget Igor Bonifacic Since 2017, Instagram has allowed users to combine up to 10 photos and videos in a single post, but only now, some four years later, is the company adding a way to delete a single image or clip from a carousel.…
Twitter has stopped cropping image previews on the web, too | Engadget Steve Dent After doing so on mobile, Twitter has stopped automatically cropping images on the web, The Verge has reported. It now leaves full sized images across platforms, after researchers and users discovered that its cropping algorithms tended to be biased based on…
The Pixel 6’s camera will feature larger image sensors and smarter photo editing AI | Engadget Andrew Tarantola The Pixel 6 smartphone has finally been unveiled. On Tuesday, Google executives explained what sorts of cameras and image capture systems the new handsets will offer when they go on sale October 28th. Both the Pixel 6…
The best passive bookshelf speakers for most people | Engadget Terrence O'Brien Image Credit: Terrence O’Brien / Engadget Honestly, a lot of the speakers I tested sounded eerily similar to each other. But not the $399 Audioengines. They had a much brighter sound and a lot more clarity than all the others, with the exception…