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Facebook is starting to feed its AI with private, unpublished photos
For years, Meta’s trained its AI programs using the billions of public images uploaded by users onto Facebook and Instagram’s servers. But apparently, Meta has decided to try training its AI on the billions of images that users haven’t uploaded to those servers. On Friday, TechCrunch reported that Facebook users trying to post something on the Story feature have encountered…
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Google’s AI ‘Ask Photos’ Feature May Actually Be Usable Now
Google’s AI-powered Ask Photos feature was announced last year, but failed to make a splash when it started rolling out to the public. It replaced the regular photo search feature with a Gemini AI search that, often, took too much time when you just wanted to find photos of your pets, or your car. This was such an issue that…
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Google is rolling out its AI-powered ‘Ask Photos’ search again – and it has a speed boost
After quietly pausing the rollout of Google Photos’ AI-powered “Ask Photos” search tool, Google is now expanding access once again and making some improvements to the feature. Google’s Gemini AI models power Ask Photos so that you can ask complex questions to help you find photos. But earlier this month, a member of the Google Photos team said on X…
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Delete, move, and resize anything in your photos with Galaxy AI
Samsung Galaxy phones and tablets offer many features and tools that use AI to help you become more productive or creative: from real-time translations of conversations with someone speaking another language and summarizing notes and lectures, to making cyberpunk-style wallpapers, Galaxy AI can help. Recently, I’ve been playing with the Photo assist tools for Samsung Galaxy devices and testing out…
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What is Relight in Microsoft Photos, and how to use it? AI image editing feature for Windows 11 explained.
Relight in the Photos app uses AI-powered lighting controls to correct poorly lit portraits by adding and positioning up to three customizable light sources, adjusting color, brightness, focus, and intensity on the fly. The feature offers quick-access presets like Golden Hour for warm, natural light or Cyberpunk for dramatic neon tones, and you can effortlessly apply creative lighting effects without…
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Google’s “Ask Photos” AI Feature Paused After Complaints
Summary Google paused ‘Ask Photos’ rollout due to latency, quality, and UX issues. Conversational search powered by Gemini AI faced bumps along the way. Improved ‘Ask Photos’ version expected to ship in two weeks. AI is currently being jammed into everything, but there are some places where it makes more sense than others. Google was testing a feature in Google…
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Instagram isn’t just for square photos anymore
Instagram now supports photos that have a 3:4 aspect ratio, meaning that when you upload a photo with that ratio, “it’ll now appear just exactly as you shot it,” Instagram head Adam Mosseri says in a Threads post. He also notes that “almost every phone camera defaults to” that format. An image from Instagram’s broadcast channel shows how the change…
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Leica can now style your iPhone photos to mimic a pro photographer
Leica is bringing a new kind of filter effect called “Artist Looks” to its Lux camera app for iPhones, with the first one adjusting your photos to resemble the style and body of work of celebrity photographer Greg Williams. Artist Looks, like the other color and black-and-white looks in Leica’s app, are essentially one-click filter presets for easy photo editing.…
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Leaked photos: DJI Osmo 360 is the dronemaker’s first 360-degree camera
DJI hasn’t even announced a 360-degree camera yet, but the DJI Osmo 360 has now spilled its guts all over the web. Leakers Hakasushi and Igor Bogdanov have published over a dozen pictures of a prototype dual-lens camera, including both external and internal photos and images of its Quick Start Guide. And it appears that DJI may have chosen quite…
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How to exclude OneDrive and iCloud from the Photos app on Windows
In Windows 11 and Windows 10, the Photos app can display your entire collection of images and videos, including those stored locally on your computer or device, as well as those in your OneDrive or iCloud storage. If you’re a Windows and iPhone user, and you open Photos on your laptop or computer, you may see pictures and videos from…
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