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A real estate photographer has filed a lawsuit against Zillow, accusing the popular online real estate database of using his photos without permission. He’s seeking damages of $81 million or more. The American Genius reports that California/Nevada-based photographer George Gutenberg claims that Zillow scraped photos from Multiple Listing Services (MLSs) ...

Japan just made history by landing two small rovers on the surface of an asteroid hurtling through space 174 million miles (280 million km) from Earth, and here’s the first published photo from the rovers shot from the surface of 162173 Ryugu. The photo “was taken during a hop on ...

The photo editing software company Polarr has launched a new iOS app called Deep Crop that uses AI to crop your photos ” like a professional photographer.” “Over the last 3 years, we’ve been exploring the intersection of artificial intelligence and human-computer interactions,” the company says. “The products we build ...

Julian David Stone refers to himself as an “outlaw rock and roll photographer.” His impressive archive contains over 10,000 concert photos of some of the biggest names in the history of rock-and-roll, but he shot all of them by sneaking his camera into shows. Photographer Julian David Stone. It all ...

Samsung has announced the new Galaxy A7, the company’s first triple-camera smartphone. As dual cameras have become a norm in the industry, the South Korean electronics giant is adding a third module for even greater photography powers. The rear setup includes an 8MP ultra-wide f/2.4 camera, a 24MP f/1.7 standard ...

Apple unveiled the new Apple Watch Series 4 last week alongside the new iPhone XS, and the watch features four new watch faces called fire, water, metal, and vapor. Although they may look like CGI creations, they were actually shot in a studio with practical effects. Coolhunting published this 1-minute ...

After the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center on September 11th, 2001, a dust-covered Joanne Capestro was photographed by street photographer Phil Penman as she stumbled away from Ground Zero. Fast forward 17 years, and Capestro recently had Penman photograph her again — this time for her wedding. Capestro ...

Think Tank Camera has announced its new Emergency Rain Covers, simple and ultra-portable covers that can help protect your gear when the weather and/or conditions unexpectedly change. While the company already sells a line of Hydrophobia line of rain covers, the Emergency line is much more simple and, as its ...

A Montana photographer has filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against Netflix, accusing the media juggernaut of using one of his storm photos without permission for the hit sci-fi show Stranger Things. We first covered photographer Sean R. Heavey’s complaint against Netflix back in May 2018 after he discovered a portion ...

Ireland Minister for Justice & Equality Charlie Flanagan sparked controversy yesterday by saying he would support legislation that would ban photographing the Gardaí (Ireland’s police service) in the course of their duties. Flanagan made the comments while a guest on RTÉ Radio One with broadcast journalist Sean O’Rourke. After his ...