A first-grader, who in an online video was seen in tears when she heard President Obama would be leaving the White House, was granted her wish to meet him Tuesday. Photo: The White House. | Continue reading
Tesla CEO Elon Musk took the stage in front of a hooting crowd of fans and clients Thursday night to reveal the Model 3. The company said it secured about 135,000 reservations during the first day of ordering. Photo: Tesla | Continue reading
If you've spent any time on Twitter or Facebook over the past 24 hours then you'll have probably seen a glut of Miitomo pictures pop up.Nintendo's first smartphone app lets you snap a Miifoto of your avatar and pop it on to a photo or background, then customise it to your heart's … | Continue reading
Chinese President Xi Jinping and U.S. President Barack Obama, meeting at the Nuclear Security Summit in Washington, called for the denuclearization of the Korean peninsula. Photo: AP | Continue reading
Garena Interactive Holding, a Singapore based online entertainment and ecommerce startup, has raised $170 million in fresh capital, despite falling valuations for some less successful startups in the U.S.. Photo: Garena | Continue reading
500px has reached a point where it needs to roll out verified accounts on its photo site. The company is starting with brands on an invite-only basis — Red Bull Media House is one of the first. With this program, 500px aims to appeal more to more companies and encourage them shar … | Continue reading
Just north of London, one of the world's most unusual aircraft is taking shape. Hybrid Air Vehicles is trying to bring gas-filled blimps back into style with the launch of its Airlander 10. When will we see blimps flying commercially? As early as the end of the decade, reports Ro … | Continue reading
Newly unsealed National Hockey League emails show executives including commissioner Gary Bettman, discussing the link between fighting, concussions and "personal tragedies," following the deaths of three NHL enforcers. Photo: AP | Continue reading
Actress Patty Duke has died at age 69. Known for playing Helen Keller in a Broadway production of "The Miracle Worker," she later reprised the role in a film version of the play, winning an Academy award for best supporting actress. Photo: AP | Continue reading
President Barack Obama discussed the problem of addiction in the U.S. and administration steps to help, at an appearance Tuesday at the National Prescription Drug Abuse and Heroin Summit in Atlanta. Photo: AP | Continue reading
An update to the Android version of Google Photos was released yesterday that adds an important feature from the iOS version of the app: non-destructive editing. The updated Android app will now track and save any individual edits you make to a photo, letting you go back — at any … | Continue reading
Three teenagers have built a nifty summary tool that could potentially help high-school students study more efficiently and save hours of reading. Available for iOS, Summize is an intelligent summary generator that will automatically recap the contents of any textbook page (or ne … | Continue reading
The latest version of Google Photos automatically saves a copy of an original photo even after you've edited and saved it, meaning you can always undo your edits, crops and filters in future. | Continue reading
Apple's iPhone SE might not be a particularly original device, but the Cupertino giant's decision to smallify the iPhone might be the beginning of a trend. A photo that started circulating on Weibo purports to show a new Xiaomi device — possibly the Xiaomi Mi 5 mini — which bring … | Continue reading
The Taiwanese cargo ship T.S. Taipei that ran aground off the coast of Taiwan earlier this month recently broke apart. The ship is leaking fuel oil into the surrounding waters, posing an environmental threat. Photo: Getty Images | Continue reading
What do you call it when you have an app that lets your friends take a photo of you, using your own phone? It’s not a selfie… It’s not a portrait… Let’s call it a someone elsie. Shootlr today launched an iOS and Android app that is attempting to take this brave new frontier of ph … | Continue reading
It wasn’t worth it for celebrities to respond to their endless digital fan mail until now. TipTalk lets them set a price for a private text, photo, or video response. The idea is that in their downtime, they could forge deeper relationships with their audience while earning enoug … | Continue reading
Last year, we reported Google’s headfirst dive into the world of Pinterest-esque photo bookmarking by allowing you to save photos in your browser and organize them by folder. Today, you can do the same thing from your desktop. The feature allows users to save their favorite image … | Continue reading
Dog owners may give no thought to kissing their pets, but what about the germs? Small animal expert and UC Davis Veterinary Medicine professor Dr. Jane Skykes joins Lee Hawkins to discuss. Photo: iStock | Continue reading
With global trade expected to grow steadily in the coming years, ports around the world are being automated. Yet the United States lags behind. In Los Angeles and Long Beach, the nation's two largest ports, only two of the 13 marine terminals are automating. Photo: Patrick T. Fal … | Continue reading
Facebook-owned photo-sharing app Instagram has another addition to the homepage in its Web version: a little compass icon that takes you to a new page where you can “discover” other users. The new button is located near the top-right corner of the window when you’re viewing Insta … | Continue reading
Ted Cruz blamed presidential rival Donald Trump on Friday for a tabloid story that aired rumors about Cruz's personal life. Trump responded that he had nothing to do with it. Photo: AP | Continue reading
Belgian police conducted a series of raids Thursday and Friday and found links from Tuesday's terror attacks in Brussels to an alleged plot planned by a cell in Paris. Photo: European PressPhoto Agency | Continue reading
Images from color-soaked Holi celebrations in India, Nepal, Bangladesh and elsewhere. The Hindu festival of colors marks the beginning of spring. Photo: Associated Press | Continue reading
The difficult thing about sending destructible messages is that you usually have to go to a completely different platform in order to use them. Anchor Free has slimmed the process down a step by creating an iOS keyboard for its destructible messaging product, Kaboom. Available to … | Continue reading
How many times have you been sick of unwanted, annoying photo posts from friends that clog your social media feed?And how many times has that driven you to unfollow, or even deactivate your account, only to realize that unfollowing is no foolproof measure of filtering trash, and … | Continue reading
Badoo is today launching photo-verification and verified profiles to make online dating safer. Most folks don’t know that Badoo is the silent giant in online dating. Globally, the 10-year-old company is bigger than any other online dating platform, including OkCupid, Match.com, e … | Continue reading
The Leicester City Football Club is leading the Premier League standings, but most Americans have no idea how to say the name. Here's a guide to the right -- and wrong -- way to pronounce some of England's soccer teams. Photo: Rob Alcaraz/The Wall Street Journal | Continue reading
Good news for amateur and professional photograph enthusiasts. Google has just made its Nik photo editing software available completely free of charge. Read More | Continue reading
Nik Collection, a package of seven photography tools, is now completely free. Previously, Google sold the plugins for a steep $149. | Continue reading
Oculus VR will make good on a promise that's been years in the making: starting next week, the first consumer versions of the company's Rift virtual reality headset will begin arriving at preorder customers' doors. CEO Brendan Iribe today tweeted out a photo of a boxed Rift bundl … | Continue reading
Big news for the professional and enthusiast photographers out there: Google is making the entirety of Nik Software’s photo editing suite completely free. It’s a big deal – Nik Software has been around for about two decades, and its film-like filters and other editing tools are s … | Continue reading
Snapchat, a fast-growing photo- and video-messaging app, offers brands that act now an opportunity to stake their claim in a new digital land grab. Snapchat’s user base is already substantial. More importantly, its fans are extremely active on the network. It boasts about 100 mil … | Continue reading
President Barack Obama spoke at a memorial honoring the victims of Argentina's military rule and said the U.S. will declassify related documents from the period, with a goal of confronting the past with transparency and honesty. Photo: AP | Continue reading
B&H Photo has just posted pre-orders for both the LG 360 Cam and the LG 360 VR headset for $199 each. No shipping date has yet been listed. | Continue reading
Do you like stickers? Do you like putting them on photos you plan to share online? Twitter wants to know!The company is considering a new product it’s calling “Stickers” that would let you add images to photos before tweeting them out. (It offers something similar with its celeb- … | Continue reading
Stickers are now a core feature in most messaging and social networking apps, and they might soon become available for you to use in your photos on Twitter. Recode reports that the company is currently testing photo stickers with a closed group of users. In addition to embellishi … | Continue reading
Twitter may be jumping into the stickers game. The company is testing a new product called “Stickers” that will allow you to affix these graphics right onto any photo before you tweet them out. What’s more, it’s said that there’ll also be a feature that suggests other edits that … | Continue reading
Italian luxury automaker Maserati unveils its first luxury SUV, the Levante, with a starting price of $72,000. Maserati CEO Harald Wester joins Shelby Holliday to discuss the making of Levante and trends in the luxury car industry. Photo: Maserati | Continue reading
Google rolled out a small but useful update to its Google Photos service today, which will allow the creation of what Google calls “smarter albums.” These are photo albums automatically created on users’ behalf, following an event or a trip, and will include a curated selection o … | Continue reading
Smartphone cameras are so good these days it can seem almost churlish to yearn for improvements. And yet enhancements continue to shave away at imperfections as engineers turn the screw to optimize multiple aspects of image capture hardware and software. Read More | Continue reading
Apple today announced a couple of updates for its Apple TV platform, including support for folders, dictation, Live Photos in the iCloud Photo library and Siri support in the App Store.In addition, Apple CEO Tim Cook announced that there are now 5,000 apps available for the Apple … | Continue reading
The latest Apple TV set-top box is getting some new, useful features today as part of Apple's tvOS 9.2 update. The best of the bunch is definitely Siri voice dictation, letting you speak to search the App Store or enter your passwords instead of using the annoying on-screen keybo … | Continue reading
You're never too successful to enjoy a good toboggan ride.Mark Zuckerberg shared a photo of himself during his recent trip to China as he raced a toboggan down the Great Wall.SEE ALSO: Fashion icon Mark Zuckerberg inspired one designer's entire collectionImage: facebook, mark z … | Continue reading
Beijing has long wanted to develop an advanced aerospace industry capable of rivaling Western giants such as Airbus and Boeing. Here is a look back at some of China's efforts so far. Photo: Getty Images | Continue reading
IBM announced that its Watson AI is getting image recognition capabilities earlier in the year, but this site that lets you feed in your own photos to see what it thinks is in them is both impressive and scary. The visual recognition demo lets you give Watson an image URL or uplo … | Continue reading
Protesters rallied Saturday outside Trump Tower in Manhattan, where GOP presidential front-runner Donald Trump launched his campaign last year. Photo: Getty | Continue reading