Photography

Google Photos now has over 200 million monthly active users

Ashley Carman May 18, 2016 01:37 pm05.18.2016 12

Google Photos now has over 200 million monthly active users after only a year of existence, Google CEO Sundar Pichai announced at I/O today. Users have created more than 2 trillion labels that help the...

Photos stats

How I chose between the Galaxy S7 and HTC 10: I let the camera decide

Vlad Savov May 16, 2016 11:40 am05.16.2016 109

After a month with the rather delightful Huawei P9, last week I decided it was time to do my due diligence and give another Android flagship smartphone a try. The two most prominent candidates for me were...

The truth is in the photos

Google made an insanely high-res camera to preserve great works of art

Jacob Kastrenakes May 17, 2016 08:00 am05.17.2016 62

In its first five years, the Google Cultural Institute scanned and archived 200 works of art in super-high-resolution gigapixel images. Now in just the past few months, it has managed to scan another 1,000....

Gigapixel images for everyone

Raspberry Pi Zero now comes camera-ready

Sean O'Kane May 16, 2016 09:40 am05.16.2016 5

The smaller, more affordable version of Raspberry Pi now comes with an onboard camera connector. The founder of Raspberry Pi writes that, with some "dumb luck" and some clever rearranging of the small...

DIY point-and-shoot, anyone?

What I want most from Google I/O 2016 is a great camera app

Chris Welch May 14, 2016 12:30 pm05.14.2016 87

The Nexus 6P is wonderful. It's a superb Android phone from top to bottom — design, build quality, display, battery life, and camera. But when I say "camera," I mean the image quality that the 6P (and 5X...

Every Nexus comes with built-in disappointment

Xiaomi's new action camera combines the best of GoPro's Hero4 editions

Alex Brokaw May 13, 2016 03:30 pm05.13.2016 12

Xiaomi's new YI 4K Action Camera 2 just went on presale at Gearbest for $249.99. The updated version adds 4K recording and some girth to the original YI, which came out last year as a budget alternative to...

GoPro is finally shipping its massive professional VR rig

Sean O'Kane May 12, 2016 09:00 am05.12.2016 13

After months of delays, the 16-camera virtual reality rig that GoPro built with Google has finally shipped. GoPro tells The Verge that Odyssey, as it's called, has made it out to the first few companies...

VR you ready?

Huawei P9 review: good design outshines dual cameras

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Facebook is bringing 360-degree photos to the News Feed

Nick Statt May 11, 2016 01:30 pm05.11.2016

Facebook says it will let you upload and view 360-degree photos on mobile and the web in the coming weeks. The feature will function similarly to 360-degree videos, so you'll be able to click and drag to...

As part of a bigger VR push

These are the Instagram icons that could have been

Chris Welch May 11, 2016 11:10 am05.11.2016 42

Instagram introduced a brand new icon and really nice black and white app redesign today. In the case of the icon, it's one case where the word "finally" is truly justified; Instagram spent years holding...

Did they pick the right one?

Instagram launches redesigned app and icon

Jacob Kastrenakes May 11, 2016 10:00 am05.11.2016 99

At long last, Instagram's old-school icon is going away in favor of something more modern — a lot more modern. Instagram announced today that it's introducing a colorful new icon for its main app, as well...

A colorful icon, a colorless app

Flens is the smartphone flashlight amplifier you never knew you needed

Vlad Savov May 11, 2016 07:45 am05.11.2016 9

I don't know about you, but I use my phone's flashlight a lot. Whether it's sorting cables at the back of my PC or navigating my way to the bathroom at night, it's just one of those super handy features...

For real-life tomb raiders

Canon's new macro lens has a built-in ring flash

Sam Byford May 11, 2016 02:27 am05.11.2016 8

There are two surprising things about Canon's new EF-M 28mm f/3.5 Macro IS STM lens.

But don't get too excited, DSLR owners
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