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Google announces tools to help users fact-check images

The use of context images and videos on social media has led to dangerous misinformation distribution. Google is announcing it will provide more contextual information about an image to prevent false

Reddit will allow users to upload NSFW images from desktop

Reddit announced Thursday that it will now allow users to upload NSFW images from desktops in adult communities. The feature was already available on the social network’s mobile app. The company

OpenAI begins allowing users to edit faces with DALL-E 2

After initially disabling the capability, OpenAI today announced that customers with access to DALL-E 2 can upload people’s faces to edit them using the AI-powered image-generating system. Previ

iOS 16 users are getting creative with the new background removal feature for photos

We said this a couple of months ago, and we’re sticking to it now: the new background removal and image cutout feature is the most fun thing to come out of iOS 16. Yes, Lock Screen widgets and c

Redesigned Google Shopping goes live, with price tracking, Google Lens for outfits and more

Google Shopping is getting a redesign with several new features, including options to shop local stores, track prices and even find style inspiration through Google Lens. Already, Google Lens’ s

Creative Commons launches its search engine out of beta, with over 300M images indexed

Nonprofit organization Creative Commons is today publicly launching its search engine after more than two years of beta testing. The new service is designed to offer an easy way to search the commons&

Google adds creator credit to Images

Google’s attempting to smooth out its relationship with photo rights holders by bringing some additional contextual data to its Image Search. In a blog post today, Product Manager Ashutosh Agarwal h

This beekeeper is rescuing bees with deep learning and an iPhone

Hobbyists around the world are hacking solutions to their problems using machine learning. The latest, Swedish beekeeper and inventor Björn Lagerman, is building BeeScanning, an app that applies some

Crunch Report | Instagram Stories Surpasses Snapchat

Instagram Stories surpasses Snapchat in terms of users, Susan Fowler joins Stripe, Google makes its fashion image searches look more like Pinterest and Yext shares pop more than 20 percent in public d

Creative Commons unveils a new photo search engine with filters, lists & social sharing

Finding free and legal images to accompany your web content has never been difficult, thanks to Creative Commons. The nonprofit organization offers copyright licenses that creators can use to share th

Twitter Adds People Tagging And Multiple Photo Sharing To Tweets

Twitter has announced a couple of additions to its image offerings today, including the ability to tag up to 10 people in a photo without using any precious characters up. You’ll also now be abl

Image Tagging Platform ThingLink Grabs Another $2 Million

<a target="_blank" href="http://thinglink.com/">ThingLink</a>, a platform that enables tagging things inside an image with links to music, video, notes and more, has closed on $2 million in additional

Kleiner-Backed Stipple Lands $3M To Help Brands Turn Tweeted Photos Into Micro-Storefronts

<a target="_blank" href="https://stipple.com/">Stipple</a>, the startup that helps publishers and marketers monetize their images, announced this morning that it has raised $3 million in follow-on fun

Concept Art Dictionary Gives A Word’s First Google Image Result Instead Of A Definition

Here's something that you'll either want to buy immediately -- or that will just strike you as a giant waste of paper. There's no in between. Though I will venture a guess that Sergey Brin was going t

Denmark’s Iconfinder Snaps Up $1.5M To Take On Google And Shutterstock, Uses SV’s AngelList To Find A Danish Backer

<a target="_blank" href="http://angel.co">AngelList</a> has established itself as a go-to place for early-stage startups to connect with potential investors, and a recent deal underscores how its effe

Google Image Search Adds More Tablet-Optimized Improvements

Google has updated its Google Image Search experience with a redesign targeted towards users of tablet devices, including the Apple iPad. Now, when you're browsing through image results on your tablet

ThingLink Launches Labs, First Project: Printable NFC-Enabled Images

<a href="http://www.thinglink.com/">ThingLink</a>, a startup that lets you add rich media tags to online images, is today announcing the launch of an internal incubator called ThingLink Labs which wil

ThingLink Adds Rich Media Tags To Online Images

TechCrunch Disrupt Startup Alley participant <a href="http://www.thinglink.com/">ThingLink</a> is a Helsinki, Finland and U.S.-based startup that lets you add rich media tags to online images. Thes

Good shots of the Samsung i900 finally surface

While the Samsung i900 was announced almost a month and a half ago, every shot of the handset released thus far has been crap. The best shot of it was a black and white mock up, watermarked to the poi

Help-Key: Use Talisman, Squid, Mogrify and this code to really mess with your Wi-Fi stealing neighbors

[photopress:eback.jpg,full,center] It’s tempting, isn’t it? You know you just really want to do this. And I can’t think of a reason why not. I’m considering it for my home rout
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