In addition to Deshon’s own tags of the photo, Flickr added a number of auto-tags that originally included “ape” and “animal.”

A flurry of unhappy users have taken to forums and social media to complain that the auto tagging feature was an entrenchment to their freedom to tag as well as painfully inaccurate.

While it might still be called disrupt, it’s probably just by habit than real meaning. As we walked the aisles of TechCrunch Disrupt NY, we didn’t see, at least in photo space, a start-up that would fit this epithet.  Certainly some great ideas, lots of passion, and definite sense that the space still shows a lot of potential. Disruption? well, you be the judge.…

Here’s a look at the major new things found in Lightroom CC, which will also be sold as a standalone program called Lightroom 6.

Photos are too short and videos are too long. Photos say too little and videos too much. In an age where we can link data so quickly and easily, it is amazing to see that photos are still just the online equivalent of their printed version : A flat 2D representation of the offline world with a little editorial text around it. It is an aberration that in 2015, photos still need text captions to explain their content.

The project uses a database of 15 million photographs to teach computers to recognize things in pictures. After putting a monumental effort toward building and polishing the collection, Li’s team released the dataset to the world for free, and it has since become one of the industry benchmarks in how well computers can perform in recognition.

That’s it. It’s official. After months of maybes, wild rumors, executive defection, Google finally announced the splitting of Google + into independent platforms, Stream and Photos. While there might be a future for Stream, we are only interested in the development of Photos, possibly named Photo +.

Affinity Photo is a new program that was launched today by the England-based software company Serif. It’s designed to be a powerful alternative to Adobe Photoshop for professional photographers and retouchers who work on a Mac.

If you’re on a Windows machine and need a way to combine multiple photos into single shots, ICE is a download you may want to look into.

not only is Photos for Mac made to replace the two ends of Apple’s photo editing lineup—pro and consumer—it’s also built to create a more seamless workflow between your iPhone, your desktop, and your iCloud storage account

The app is pretty much a 100% free version of Word Lens, an app that blew many a mind when it was launched back in 2010. You don’t even need any kind of Internet connection for it to work.

By taking a minimum of 12 seconds of video recorded by each person and running it through a computer algorithm, the researchers were able to figure out a unique “motion signature” for the filmers.

Scientists at Google Research and Stanford University have teamed up to develop an artificial intelligence program designed to automatically produce captions based on the content of the image.

we will soon see other photo sites like Instagram offer  narrative building tools, probably partially automated

photo storage has become a major battleground

There are many lessons I have learned while shooting this past year. One is that if you look for it, there will always be beautiful moments within tragedy and sometimes these are the most important.

Azu Nwagbogu, the founder of the Lagos Photo Festival, is guided by a simple credo: He wants to exhibit everybody. Yes, that’s a big goal. But it’s an even bigger continent with a breathtaking range of people, stories and photographers who have been inspired by it.