Google Earth has transformed the way people explore and understand the world from its viral launch to its role in scientific discovery and environmental planning. To celebrate its 20th anniversary, Google Earth looks back at some of the most significant moments in its history and highlights how it remains an essential tool for millions worldwide. [Read More]
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At Google I/O 2025 today, the company announced a wide range of new software, technology, and features across its ecosystem, including updates to its generative AI models and tools. petapixel.com »
2025-05-20 22:54
Magic Editor, Google's artificial intelligence-based photo editing tool, has arrived on older smartphones. No longer must users have the latest Google Pixel phones to take advantage of the company's AI photo features. [Read More] petapixel.com »
2024-05-24 00:00
Google has marked Earth Day 2024 today (April 22) with a Doodle of six aerial photographs from around the world that spell out the search engine's name. [Read More] petapixel.com »
2024-04-22 14:33
Google has offered indemnity to its users if they are sued for copyright violation after using its generative AI tools.
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Google is rolling out some of its more recent photo features to older Pixel phones and Google One members, starting with the Magic Eraser tool. [Read More] petapixel.com »
2023-02-23 21:58
With the Super Bowl just days away, Google has shared the ad that will air during the big game early and it puts the Pixel 7's powerful photo editing features front and center. [Read More] petapixel.com »
2023-02-09 00:06
Earlier this week, Google introduced Bard, its experimental conversational artificial intelligence (AI) service that is basically the company's answer to ChatGPT. Unfortunately, it immediately got a photo fact wrong in its debut example. [Read More] petapixel.com »
2023-02-08 19:57
Google is changing how Photos estimates missing photo locations and will no longer use information from Location History for new photos and videos when camera location settings are turned off. [Read More] petapixel.com »
2022-12-09 20:06
Google has announced that it is taking additional steps to improve the representation of various skin tones across its products and has implemented a new scale that better shows the spectrum of real-world skin color. [Read More] petapixel.com »
2022-05-12 00:01
In November, Google announced that it was removing easy access to its unlimited photo storage option in Google Photos. Sensing blood in the water, Verizon has launched an unlimited storage option in its own competitor cloud service. petapixel.com »
2020-12-04 20:16
Android Police is reporting that Google Photos has been asking its users to help improve its algorithms. While this is not Google's first foray into crowdsourcing help in improving its recognition software, the latest survey, which is rolling out to users on Android, is asking for volunteers to label their images. dpreview.com »
2020-11-11 21:01
Today, at its ‘Launch Night In’ event, Google unveiled the details of its new Pixel 4a 5G and Pixel 5 devices. Pixel 4a 5G The Pixel 4a 5G is, as its name suggests, a 5G variant of the budget-friendly phone released last autumn. dpreview.com »
2020-09-30 22:30
The newly unveiled Google Pixel 4 and Pixel 4 XL smartphones will not include three years of free 'original quality' Google Photos storage, the company has confirmed. Details about the change were quietly listed on the Google Store's Pixel 4 product page following the company's press event on Tuesday, revealing an elimination of the perk Google has offered since the launch of its original Pixel model. dpreview.com »
2019-10-16 20:14
Google has published an 18-page study fully detailing the synthetic depth-of-field technology that makes its single-camera Portrait Mode possible. Google introduced its evolved Portrait Mode feature on the Pixel 2 and Pixel 2 XL, though neither smartphone model has the dual-camera hardware typically required to produce this effect. dpreview.com »
2018-06-18 18:30
Google's AI-based image recognition system Google Lens will be making its way into stock camera apps, the company revealed during its I/O 2018 conference this week. The tool— which identifies objects, landmarks, and more in the images you capture with your phone—was first revealed last year, later launching for the maker's own Pixel smartphones and then on Android and iOS in general. dpreview.com »
2018-05-13 19:01
Google will stop providing updates for its Nik Collection suite of plug-in photo editing tools. The 'announcement' comes by way of a banner at the top of the Nik Collection site, stating that there are no plans to update or add features to the Collection. dpreview.com »
2017-05-30 17:48
Ricoh wants to play with the big boys. In a surprising move for the company, Ricoh today unveiled Keenai (get it, “keen eye” but with AI?), an intelligent photo storage and management service that wants to bring all of your digital photos under one easy-to-organize umbrella. petapixel.com »
2016-12-06 23:28